Five people were fatally shot in the capital of St. Vincent as the eastern Caribbean island struggles with a rise in violent crime, authorities said Thursday. The victims were killed late Wednesday in Kingstown in an outdoor area near a cruise ship
A new report on the death of a 95-year-old woman in Australia after police used a stun gun on her has found that the officers administered “a grossly disproportionate response and excessive use of force.” Clare Nowland died after police shocked her
A member of the Congolese opposition was shot dead in the capital, Kinshasa, and his body riddled with bullets, his party said Thursday. Cherubin Okende, a former transport minister and now a member of Together for the Republic, an opposition party, was
In a continued escalation of violence, Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian militants in a highly contentious city in the occupied West Bank on Friday. The incident follows a major two-day Israeli offensive aimed at suppressing militant activities. According to Shin Bet,
A Tajikistan citizen who fatally shot two security officers at the airport in Moldova’s capital last week died Monday from injuries he sustained when officers subdued him, authorities said. The attacker, who Tajikistan prosecutors later identified as Rustam Ashurov, 43, was hospitalized
Research trip in Mexico tragically cut short after UC Berkeley PhD student gets fatally shot 7 times
For four years, Gabriel Trujillo trekked the breadth of the United States and south into Mexico in search of a flowering shrub called the common buttonbush. The plant is native to the varied climates of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Trujillo, a
An 18-year-old army trainee shot three fellow soldiers at a firing range on a Japanese army base Wednesday, killing two of them, officials said. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder at the scene in Gifu prefecture in central Japan,
A boy was shot and killed by police after his father stole a car in the southwestern Khuzestan province and drove off with him, Iranian authorities said. Ruhollah Bigdeli, chief of police in Shushtar County, said — via Iran’s official police website
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank Friday, and the military said the man attacked a solider before he was shot. The army said the man arrived at
New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was on the presidential campaign trail as a Democratic candidate when he was fatally shot on this day in history, June 5, 1968, by an assassin at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The New