Sri Lanka politician shot dead inside office
A Sri Lankan opposition politician was shot dead in his office on Wednesday, police said, the latest in a wave of assassinations and the first to target a political figure...
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Doha assassination plot, emergency summit, Trump鈥檚 double-cross
LAST week鈥檚 failed assassination attempt of the Palestinian negotiating team in Doha, Qatar, raises critical questions that extend far beyond the attack itself. The crux of the problem lies in three interconnected issues: the increasing use of artificial intelligence in targeting individuals, the failure or deliberate negligence of the US-led air defence system, and Qatar鈥檚 vulnerable position as a host to both a major US base and the ceasefire negotiations...
Trump blasts 鈥榬adical left鈥� after killing of Charlie Kirk
Donald Trump lashed out at the 鈥榬adical left鈥� on Wednesday after the apparent assassination of his right-wing ally Charlie Kirk, vowing a crackdown after a killing that has sparked fears of worsening political violence in the United States.
Israel鈥檚 assassination of memory
AS ISRAEL ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass starvation, it prepares for yet another 鈥� the demolition of Gaza City, one of the oldest cities on Earth. Heavy engineering equipment and gigantic armoured bulldozers are tearing down hundreds of heavily damaged buildings. Cement trucks are churning out concrete to fill tunnels...
CPB, Jasod factions observe 50th anniv of Sheikh Mujib assassination
The Communist Party of Bangladesh and two factions of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal on Friday observed the 50th anniversary of death of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding president of Bangladesh...
Trump says JFK assassination files to be released Tuesday
US president Donald Trump said his administration would be releasing Tuesday remaining government files on the assassination of president John F. Kennedy -- a case that still fuels conspiracy theories more than 60 years after his death.
Trump safe after apparent assassination attempt, person in custody
Donald Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt Sunday in Florida, the FBI said, with the Republican presidential candidate's campaign and law enforcement reporting he was safe and unharmed.
I took a bullet for democracy: Trump
Donald Trump, holding his first camp, surviving an assassination attempt, rejected concerns that he is a threat to America鈥檚 democratic system, triumphantly telling the crowd, 鈥業 took a bullet for democracy.鈥�...
'Cool it down,' Biden tells nation after Trump assassination bid
President Joe Biden sought to calm a divided nation after his rival Donald Trump survived an assassination bid, saying in a rare Oval Office address Sunday it was time to lower the temperature of America's hostile politics.
Trump hurt in gun attack during rally
Donald Trump called on Americans Sunday to stand united after he was injured in an assassination attempt 鈥� a shocking incident that opened a dark new chapter in an already polarised US presidential race...
The shooting of Donald Trump
AS A nation, the United States, as if we did not already know, is convulsed. Paranoid and divided, giddy with conspiracy and deranged by a fear of totalitarian seizure, hyper partisan and hostile to debate and any loose definition of facts (this condition afflicts the entire political spectrum), the only thing missing so far was this: an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate...
Alleged Trump shooter filmed on roof: TMZ video
A man with a rifle in hand lays on his stomach on a rooftop, then screams ring out, a video published by US outlet TMZ on Saturday shows....
Donald Trump narrowly escapes assassination bid
Donald Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt at a political rally Saturday, leaving the FBI hunting for information about how a gunman could attack a former assassination attemptt.
Bullet and the ballot box: violent US rhetoric comes 'home to roost'
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump by a gunman at his Pennsylvania rally has confirmed the worst fears of public figures warning that an escalation in incendiary political rhetoric on all sides could lead to bloodshed.
The media kept Assange behind bars
IT IS only right that we all take a moment to celebrate the victory of Julian Assange鈥檚 release from 14 years of detention, in varying forms, to be united, finally, with his wife and children 鈥� two boys who have been denied the chance to ever properly know their father...
Slovakia PM suffers life-threatening wounds in assassination attempt
Slovakia鈥檚 prime minister Robert Fico was battling life-threatening wounds on Wednesday after officials said he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt condemned by European leaders...
