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News Wrap: Swedish authorities trying to find motive of gunman who killed 10

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In our news wrap Wednesday, police in Sweden are trying to figure out the motive of a gunman who carried out the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history, Argentina is withdrawing from the World Health Organization, the racial gap in maternal mortality rates widened last year and Tuskegee Airman Harry Stewart Jr. died at 100. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Also today in Sweden, police are trying to figure out the motive of a gunman who carried out the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history.

0:08.8

Authorities now say 11 people are dead, including the shooter, following yesterday's massacre at a school for adults in the city of Odebro.

0:17.4

Sweden's king and queen laid wreaths outside of the school today. Stunned locals also paid tribute, saying they never expected an attack like this in their community.

0:26.6

Not in this place.

0:28.6

I mean, you've heard about it in different parts of the world, but of course it's a chalk.

0:34.6

It's your hometown. Yeah, it's so many lives destroyed.

0:41.3

Yeah, it's hard to find the words.

0:45.3

Sweden has recorded some of the highest per capita rates of gun violence in the European Union in recent years, but deadly school shootings are rare.

0:53.3

Officials say five victims are still

0:56.1

hospitalized in serious but stable condition. Argentina is withdrawing from the World Health

1:02.6

Organization due to the, quote, profound differences with the agency. President Javier Millet's decision

1:09.2

follows President Trump's executive order to pull the U.S. out of the WHO.

1:14.3

The organization coordinates responses to global health threats and provides technical assistance to poorer countries.

1:20.7

Its work is critical during outbreaks of diseases like Ebola and AIDS.

1:25.1

A government spokesperson said Argentina's decision was largely a response

1:29.0

to the WHO's guidance during the COVID pandemic.

1:32.0

This is based on the deep differences regarding, of course, health management, especially

1:40.5

during the pandemic. We Argentines will not allow an international organization to intervene in our sovereignty,

1:47.0

much less our health.

1:49.0

Argentina's departure from the WHO complicates the agency's efforts in global health,

1:55.0

though the country provides only a fraction of the WHO's total budget,

1:59.0

and it's under no obligation to follow the agency's guidelines and recommendations.

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