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by Marc Antoine BAUDOUX and Adam PLOWRIGHT in Paris Agence France Presse STRASBOURG, France (AFP) — French police on Thursday shot dead a gunman who had been on the run since killing three people at Strasbourg’s popular market. More than 700 French security forces had been hunting for 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt since the bloodshed on Tuesday night. He was believed to have been injured after exchanging fire with soldiers during the attack, but managed to […]
(Eagle News) — The driver of convicted drug lord Peter Co was shot dead in Batangas on Friday, Sept. 14. A report said Ervis Areglo was on his way to a court when several still-unidentified men shot him. He was dead on the spot. Co, whose real name is Wu Tuan Yuan, is serving a life sentence after he was convicted of selling illegal drugs in 2001. In 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte named Co as among the […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) — People laid flowers and left tributes in Parliament Square in central London on Thursday evening (June 16) in memory of opposition Labor MP, Jo Cox, who was earlier shot dead in a street attack, not far from her northern England constituency office. The killing of a British member of parliament caused deep shock across Britain and the suspension of campaigning for next week’s referendum on the country’s EU membership. Jo […]
MOSCOW , Russia (AFP) — Russian special forces on Wednesday shot dead a man who had taken hostages at a Moscow bank, local media cited the police as saying. “A man wearing a balaclava entered the bank and threatened the employees with an object resembling a gun,” Interfax news agency quoted the police as saying. The man had requested 4.7 million rubles ($70,800) and 13,000 euros from a branch of the Moscow Credit Bank in […]
