Prosecutor in Bhutto assassination case shot deadGunmen on a motorcycle on Friday shot dead a prosecutor investigating the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, one of the most shocking events in the country's turbulent history. Police sources More… |
Three killed, 7 injured in Swiss shootingThree people, including the suspected assailant, have been killed in a shooting at a factory near the Swiss city of Lucerne, police said on Wednesday. Seven others were injured in the attack whi More… |
Several killed in shooting at Swiss factorySeveral people have been killed and seriously injured during a shooting at a factory near the Swiss city of Lucerne, police said on Wednesday. Swiss police said in a brief statement that several people had been killed and injured More… |
Four dead in townhouse shooting in ColoradoA gunman who barricaded himself inside a townhouse after killing three people in the home was shot to death by police on Saturday in Aurora, Colorado, the same Denver suburb where 12 people were slain in a movie house massacre last July, police More… |
Americans want guns, but with restrictionsNearly seven in 10 Americans support the idea of placing strong or moderate limits gun ownership following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. But laws that permit citizens to carr More… |
28 killed as gunman opens fire in US schoolTwenty schoolchildren were slaughtered by a heavily armed gunman who opened fire at a suburban elementary school in Connecticut on Friday, ultimately killing at least 27 people including himself in the one of the worst mass shootings in US histo More… |
Mauritania leader calls for calm after shootingMauritania's president appeared on television to call for calm on Sunday, hours after being shot by soldiers in what he said was an accident. Seen by the West as an ally against al Qaeda's increasing presence in the Sahara More… |
7 dead in shooting at US Sikh templeA gunman killed six people and critically wounded three at a Sikh temple during Sunday services before police shot him dead in an attack that authorities are treating as an act of domestic terrorism. More… |
Toronto mall shooting kills 1, wounds 6One man was killed and six other people were wounded by gunfire, two critically, in a shooting at Toronto's main downtown mall on Saturday, a rare occurrence of major gun violence in Canada's largest city. On More… |
Al Jazeera not to broadcast gunman filmQatar-based news network Al Jazeera said on Tuesday it had decided not to broadcast video footage of three deadly shootings in France filmed by an Al Qaeda-inspired gunman using a camera strapped to his body. "Al Jazeera will not air video More… |








