1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (476+ words) Mexico City, July 17 — Mexico’s vibrant capital city has been relatively untouched by decades of drug violence, but a video of self-styled cartel gunmen claiming to operate in a neighborhood popular with tourists has sparked fears that could change. “The clean-up…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (98+ words) WASHINGTON, May 24 — A gunman opened fire near the White House yesterday evening, with US Secret Service agents killing the assailant in a shoot-out during which a bystander was......

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (32+ words) LIMA, May 22 — A Peruvian mayor was shot dead by hitmen yesterday while on his way to work in the country’s north, authorities reported, amid a surge in crime that has......

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (617+ words) WASHINGTON, April 26 — US President Donald Trump and other attendees were evacuated last night after gunshots were fired at a glitzy media gala in Washington. As details continue to emerge and investigations are underway, here is what we know about the…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (679+ words) RIO DE JANEIRO, April 8 — When police killed a drug kingpin in a Rio de Janeiro favela last month, armed men quickly surrounded a bus, forced the passengers to disembark and set it on fire in the middle of an avenue....

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (337+ words) KARACHI, March 1 — ‌Pakistani police on Sunday clashed with protesters who breached ​the outer wall of the US consulate in Karachi, leaving nine people dead, following news of US and Israeli strikes on Iran ‌that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei....

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (388+ words) WASHINGTON, Feb 20 — A banner of US President Donald Trump has been unfurled outside the headquarters of the Justice Department in the latest effort to stamp his identity on a Washington institution. The blue banner unfurled on Thursday between two columns…...

7+ mon, 3+ day ago   (360+ words) HONG KONG, Feb 11 — A Hong Kong court convicted the father of a wanted pro-democracy activist today for handling money belonging to his daughter overseas, the first such verdict issued under the city’s homegrown national security law. Authorities in the Chinese…...

7+ mon, 6+ day ago   (161+ words) SYDNEY, Feb 8 — A white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers and injured dozens at two mosques in New Zealand will begin an appeal hearing against his sentence tomorrow. Brenton Tarrant, 35, opened fire on two mosques in Christchurch in March 2019, in the…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (551+ words) FORT PIERCE, Feb 5 — A man who plotted to assassinate President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course in September 2024, two months before the US election, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison. Ryan Routh, 59, was convicted in September of trying…...