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Former President Trump escapes assassination bid. There is a disturbing history of targeting top US leaders

July 14, 2024 3:39 pm

Donald Trump is OK after a bullet apparently grazed his ear while he was speaking at a political rally. The shooter was shot and killed at the spot.

Japan PM Kishida set to consolidate ruling party power as Abe mourned

July 11, 2022 10:33 am

The ruling conservative coalition, led by Kishida's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), extended its majority in the upper house of parliament

Shinzo Abe's assassination was hard to fathom because it involved a gun — a rare type of crime in Japan

July 09, 2022 11:19 am

Gun violence is almost unheard-of in Japan. There was only one firearm-related death in all of 2021. Since 2017, there have been 14 gun-related deaths, a remarkably low figure for a country of 125 million people.

How Gandhi’s assassination left one family not only shocked, but also politicised

October 10, 2020 7:01 pm

In her memoir, The Brass Notebook, economist Devaki Jain combines the personal and the political to give a vivid account of a nation stepping into Independence

Forty years on, four Ananda Margis held guilty of murdering Railway Minister L N Mishra

December 08, 2014 4:33 pm

The quantum of punishment will be announced on December 15.

Bomber who targeted Bhutto stayed at facilitator's home

April 30, 2010 2:07 pm

A Pak team tasked to fix criminal responsibility for Bhutto's assassination established that the suicide bomber who targeted her stayed in the home of another man charged with facilitating attack.

UK's MI5 foiled plot to kill Rajiv Gandhi in 1985: Book

October 07, 2009 4:12 pm

A plan by Khalistani and Kashmiri militants to assassinate the then PM Rajiv Gandhi during his visit to the UK in 1985 was foiled by Britain's internal intelligence agency.

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