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Nationalist, Kremlin-friendly Robert Fico was shot four times from close range on May 15, 2024

World

Slovak gunman who shot PM to go on trial

The man who admitted to shooting Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is due to stand trial on terror charges on Tuesday, more than a year...

AFPJuly 7, 2025

This combination of pictures shows the official handout picture of Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and an official handout picture dated November 11, 2020 of Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman, both of whom were shot

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Manhunt intensifies in US after lawmaker killed, another wounded

Police and FBI agents waged a huge manhunt Sunday for a gunman who killed a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota in...

AFPJune 15, 2025

Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman (L) and state senator John Hoffman (R), both Democrats, were shot in a targeted attack

World

US police hunt gunman after state lawmaker killed, another hurt

A manhunt was underway Saturday for a gunman who shot two Democratic state lawmakers in Minnesota, killing one and her husband and wounding the...

AFPJune 14, 2025

Survivor: teacher Paul G. Nitsche talks to reporters near the school in Graz

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‘This isn’t real’: teacher’s narrow escape from Austria school shooter

A teacher told AFP Wednesday how he found himself in a corridor with the shooter who killed 10 people in an Austrian school as...

AFPJune 11, 2025

Gunfire kills several in Austrian school

World

10 dead in Austria school shooting: mayor

Ten people died on Tuesday after a suspected shooter opened fire in a school in the southeastern Austrian city of Graz, the local mayor...

AFPJune 10, 2025

Jeanine Pirro, a former Fox News host recently appointed by Trump as the interim federal prosecutor for the US capital, announced the charges

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Alleged US killer of Israel embassy staff charged with murder

The suspect accused of gunning down two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum in Washington was charged Thursday with murder, as international tensions...

AFPMay 22, 2025

Police tape is seen outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, DC, in the early hours of May 22, 2025

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Jewish museum shooting suspect mistaken for victim: witnesses

A gunman who killed two people outside a Jewish museum in Washington on Wednesday was initially mistaken for a victim of the shooting and...

AFPMay 22, 2025

Gunfire broke out outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington as the venue held a social event for young professionals and diplomatic staff

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Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead outside Jewish museum in Washington

Two Israeli embassy staffers were shot dead late Wednesday outside a Jewish museum in Washington by a gunman who shouted “free Palestine,” authorities said,...

AFPMay 22, 2025