assassination

Brian Thompson was chief executive officer of UnitedHealth Group. Photo: Collected
USA

When a medical insurance CEO was shot dead, people celebrated his death

The fallout has sparked an even wider conversation about the much hated health insurance industry in the US, says the Independent UK

Mexican security forces respond at the scene where Alejandro Arcos, mayor of Chilpancingo, was killed, in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico October 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Oscar Guerrero
World+Biz

Mexican mayor assassinated days after taking office

A demonstrator gestures during a protest against the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, in Beirut, Lebanon August 2, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Emilie Madi
Hamas-Israel war

Haniyeh's last words: 'If a leader leaves, another will come'

Medical personnel carry Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico to hospital after being transported in a helicopter, in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, May 15, 2024. JOJ TV/Handout via REUTERS/ File Photo
Europe

Factbox-Killings and attempted assassinations of leaders in Europe

Karan Brar, Kamalpreet Singh and Karanpreet Singh, the three individuals charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in relation to the murder in Canada of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in 2023, are seen in a combination of undated photographs released by the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT). Photo: IHIT/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
World+Biz

Three men accused in Canadian Sikh leader's death appear in court

The flags of the United States and India are displayed on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington, US, June 21, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
USA

Reported Indian role in assassination plots a 'serious matter', White House says

Demonstrators holding flags and signs protest outside India's consulate on September 25 over accusations that India was involved in the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters]
USA

Indian govt official directed plot to assassinate Sikh activist in New York, says US

Iranian flag is seen at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as Albania cuts ties with Iran and orders diplomats to leave over cyberattack, in Tirana, Albania, September 8, 2022. REUTERS/Florion Goga
Middle East

Member of Iran's powerful clerical body assassinated - Fars

FILE - Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during a news conference in Shaukat Khanum hospital, where is being treated for a gunshot wound in Lahore, Pakistan, on Nov. 4, 2022. Imran Khan says a protest march toward the capital Islamabad suspended after he was wounded by a gun shot in an apparent attempt on his life will resume Tuesday. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudhry)
South Asia

Imran Khan claims ex-President Zardari behind new plot to assassinate him

Tetsuya Yamagami, bottom, is detained near the site of gunshots in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on July 8, 2022. Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder, Japan's NHK public television reported Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. Photo: AP/UNB
World+Biz

Suspect charged with murder in assassination of Japan's Abe

Photo: Collected
USA

New trove of Kennedy assassination files made public

Former Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses a news conference after he was wounded following a shooting incident during a long march in Wazirabad, at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre in Lahore, Pakistan November 4, 2022. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza
South Asia

Former Pakistan PM Khan welcomes probe into shooting

People lay flowers on a flower offering at Abe at Zojoji Temple, where the vigil and funeral of late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, will be held, in Tokyo, Japan July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
World+Biz

Shinzo Abe's suspected assassin to undergo psychiatric evaluation