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What we know about the attack on two Minnesota lawmakers
Getty/Minnesota state Senate On Saturday, two state lawmakers from Minnesota were gunned down in their homes in what Governor Tim Walz called a “politically motivated assassination” attempt. The attacks left one politician dead and the other seriously injured. The suspect, Vance Luther Boelter, has been taken into custody after he was found in rural woodland…
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Man suspected of shooting Minnesota lawmakers arrested after huge manhunt
James Chater and Mike Wendling BBC News, Sydney and Minneapolis Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office/Reuters Police said suspect Vance Luther Boelter was armed at the time of his arrest A 57-year-old man has been arrested in the US state of Minnesota on suspicion of killing a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband. The arrest on Sunday…
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Gunmen storm Mexican village hall and shoot dead mayor
Gunmen have killed the mayor of the Mexican municipality of San Mateo Piñas in the latest deadly attack on local officials. Witnesses said four armed men arrived on motorcycles, stormed the village hall and opened fire on the mayor, Lilia Gema García Soto, and a local official who was in a meeting with her, Eli…
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The protesters and residents pushing back on tourism in Barcelona
Sarah Rainsford Southern Europe correspondent BBC As protesters marched through central Barcelona on Sunday, they shouted at the tourists who were filming them to “Go Home!”. Bemused couples sitting in street cafés got squirted with water pistols and a luxury clothes store was pasted with stickers declaring the tourists who’d shut themselves inside unwelcome. Tourism…
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Officer killed at rural property
A 57-year-old Australian police officer has been shot dead on a rural property in Tasmania while serving a warrant to repossess a home, say police. The officer had arrived at a house in North Motton, near the town of Ulverstone, on Monday morning when he was fired at by “a member of the public”, Tasmania…
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Explosions and damage across Israel as Iran launches fresh air strikes
Five people have been killed and dozens injured as Iran launched fresh strikes across central Israel overnight, according to Israel’s national emergency service. Footage shows explosions and damage in Tel Aviv and Haifa. Officials say at least 19 people have been killed in Israel and 224 people in Iran since Friday, when the two countries…
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Trump’s investment claims – are tariffs boosting the US economy?
Getty Images US President Donald Trump may have called tariffs his favourite word in the dictionary. But when it comes to obsessions, business investment has got to be close. As of last month, he said more than $12 trillion (£8.8tn) had been “practically committed” on his watch. “Nobody’s ever seen numbers like we have,” he…
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Minnesota assassination survivor and husband shot 17 times
Mike Wendling BBC News Reporting fromMinneapolis Yvette Hoffman / Facebook Yvette and John Hoffman A survivor of Saturday’s deadly attacks on two Minnesota lawmakers says she and her husband are both “incredibly lucky to be alive” after they were hit by 17 bullets. State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were gunned down at…
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Iranians on life under Israeli attacks
“Stuck”. That is the word most people who have spoken to the BBC use to describe life in Iran right now. After three days of Israeli attacks, “everyone is trying to escape” Tehran “one way or another,” one resident told BBC News Persian. On Sunday, long queues formed at petrol stations across the city. Many…
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Wait for bodies deepens pain of families after Air India crash
Zoya Mateen BBC News, Ahmedabad AFP via Getty Images The plane crashed shortly after takeoff in a residential neighbourhood in the city of Ahmedabad For Mistry Jignesh, 72 hours feel like an eternity. Since Thursday evening, Mr Jignesh and his family have been doing the rounds of the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, trying to find…
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