6 h. ago Jean Charles de Menezes’s mother says ‘everyone should watch’ TV drama about his killing

Disney+ series revisits killing of Brazilian man wrongly identified as a terrorist by Met police officers in 2005The mother of a man shot dead by police in a London Underground station after being mistaken for a terrorist has said “everyone should watch” a new dramatisation of her son’s killing.Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by two police marksmen in Stockwell tube station on 22 July 2005. De Menezes was wrongly identified as one of the fugitives involved in a failed bombing two weeks after the 7/7 attack in London, which killed 52 people. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago German special forces hunt for gunman who shot two dead near Frankfurt

German police in a spa town north of Frankfurt on Sunday were expanding a manhunt for a suspect still on the loose after two people were fatally shot.

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47 h. ago Police in central Germany hunt for a suspect on the run after 2 people were shot dead

German police in a spa town north of Frankfurt on Sunday were widening a manhunt for a suspect still on the loose after two people were fatally shot a day earlier

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61 h. ago Real Housewives star 'devastated' as brother is shot dead by police

Lydia McLaughlin from Real Housewives Of Orange County has been left heartbroken after her brother Geoffrey Shyam Stirling was shot dead by police during a traffic stop

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66 h. ago Real Housewives star Lydia McLaughlin 'devastated' as brother shot dead by police

Lydia McLaughlin shared the tragic news just six months after the death of her mother.

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67 h. ago Fifty years ago, a young mom traveling with her toddler was raped and shot dead on a roadside. Police finally know who killed her

Phyllis Bailer, 26, was traveling from Indianapolis to Bluffton, Indiana, with her 3-year-old daughter when she was murdered in 1972

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68 h. ago Hundreds of Koala bears are being shot dead out of trees from helicopters in Australian wildlife cull

A massive bushfire has destroyed thousands of acres of Budj Bim national park leaving koalas burned, thirsty and starving - they are now being euthanised but the method is attracting criticism

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68 h. ago Hundreds of koalas are being shot dead out of trees from helicopters in Australian wildlife cull

A massive bushfire has destroyed thousands of acres of Budj Bim national park leaving koalas burned, thirsty and starving - they are now being euthanised but the method is attracting criticism

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69 h. ago Real Housewives' Lydia McLaughlin's brother shot dead by police months after mum's death

Real Housewives star Lydia McLaughlin has shared her extreme heartache after her brother Geoffrey Shyam Stirling was shot dead by police in California

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3 d. ago Mum shot dead in the street by man who felt 'disrespected' after she ignored his catcalls

Nikki Loffredo, 42, was walking along a street when she was shot multiple times by James Bernard Johnson, 43, after she told him to "f**k off" in response to his catcalling.

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3 d. ago Mum shot dead in street by man who felt 'disrespected' after she ignored his catcalls

Murderer James Bernard Johnson, 43, was found guilty after firing four shots at 42-year-old Nikki Loffredo from his vehicle before leaving her to die in the street

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4 d. ago US man shot dead after hijacking small passenger plane in Belize

Two people injured after man took control of plane at knifepoint before being shot by another passengerA US man has been shot dead after hijacking a small passenger plane and injuring two passengers in the Caribbean nation of Belize.Fourteen passengers were onboard the aircraft when the hijacker, identified as Akinyela Sawa Taylor, took control of the flight at knifepoint. Two passengers were injured, including one who was stabbed in the back. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Husband and wife executed in horror gangland slaying just feet from their home

Zhang Dayong, 53, known as “Asheng”, and his partner Gong Xiaoqing, 38, were shot dead in a hail of bullets in Rome from a passing motorcycle in an escalation of violence between rival gangs

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6 d. ago Seventh person in court in connection with murder of woman shot dead in Wales

Sai Raj Manne appeared before Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday and was remanded into custody until July 7.

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8 d. ago Teenager, 17, shot dead parents as part of Trump assassination plot, says FBI

Nikita Casap, 17, detailed intentions in a three-page anti-Semitic manifesto praising Adolf Hitler

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9 d. ago 20 years after two Marine brothers were found shot dead cops say they have charged a suspect

A motive for the killing has not been released

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1 week ago Cop killer's final act of defiance before being shot dead by prison firing squad in violent execution

Mikal Mahdi, with a hood over his head, cried out as the three bullets to the heart hit him and his arms flexed. A red bull's-eye that was placed over his heart was pushed into the bullet wound in his chest.

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1 week ago Mikal Mahdi killed by firing squad as South Carolina pushes execution spree

Mahdi, who killed an officer in 2004, endured torture in his childhood and argued he was denied a fair trialA prison firing squad in South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi on Friday, the second recent death row killing in the state by authorized gunfire.Mahdi, 42, was shot dead by corrections employees inside the execution chamber, where authorities have carried out a rapid spree of killings as South Carolina aggressively revives capital punishment. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Supermarket workers shot dead in and outside store as major investigation launched

Multiple shootings which started inside a supermarket and ended at a worker's home has left two Walmart colleagues dead and a third in a critical condition in hospital

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1 week ago How a phone footage exposed a massacre of Gaza paramedics – podcast

Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil defence workers in southern Gaza on 23 March. Bethan McKernan reports on the emerging evidence of what happenedIsraeli forces shot dead 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil defence workers on 23 March and buried them in a mass grave in the Tel al-Sultan district of Rafah.The Israeli military claimed their vehicles had been “advancing suspiciously” and without headlights or flashing emergency lights. Continue reading...

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