Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot this morning while campaigning for a parliamentary electionin the Nara region. A man opened fire on Abe, 67, from behind with an apparently homemade gun as he spoke at a drab traffic island in the western city of Nara, Japanese media showed earlier. The […]
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe collapsed during a speech in the city of Nara, in western Japan. Initial reports say he may have been injured. An NHK reporter on-site heard something that sounded like a gunshot and saw Abe bleeding, Japan’s NHK WORLD News reported. A sound like a gunshot was heard at the […]
Embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday finally agreed to step down as the Conservative Party leader, triggering a leadership election for a new Tory leader who will go on to become the new premier, according to reports from Downing Street.Johnson, 58, will remain in charge at 10 Downing Street until the process of […]
Six people were killed and at least two dozen wounded when a man with a high-powered rifle opened fire from a rooftop at a Fourth of July parade in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park on Monday, turning a civic display of patriotism into a scene of panicked mayhem.Police said they had identified a […]
Danish police said three people were killed and three others are in critical condition after a shooting rampage on Sunday at a shopping mall in Copenhagen. Copenhagen police inspector Soren Thomassen said the three victims were a man in his 40s and “two young people”. A gunman opened fire inside a busy shopping mall in […]
United States president Joe Biden on Friday said lawmakers had finally responded to the demands of families whose loved ones had died in various tragic shootings over the past years by clearing legislation ‘to address the scourge of gun violence in our communities’. The Senate late Thursday approved a bipartisan bill with a narrow package […]
An earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing at least 155 people, authorities said.Information remained scarce on the magnitude 6 temblor that struck Paktika province, but it comes as the international community largely has left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover of the country last year amid the chaotic withdrawal of the US military from the […]
An attack claimed by Islamic State on a gurdwara in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least two people and injured seven, officials said.On an affiliated Telegram channel, the local branch of Islamic State said the attack was in response to insults levelled at the Prophet Mohammed, an apparent reference to remarks by […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country was not threatening the world with nuclear weapons, but warned that Moscow “will use such weapons to defend its sovereignty”.He made the remarks on Friday while addressing the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. When asked to comment on the West’s allegations about the threat of a nuclear war […]
Embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has narrowly survived a vote of confidence by his fellow Conservative Party lawmakers against his leadership, a ballot that has left his authority weakened and exposed rifts within his party.Some 211 MPs voted for the prime minister, compared to 148 votes against – a majority of 63. The vote […]