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Sweden

Investigators probe police shooting of ‘disabled man with toy gun’

A probe is continuing into the behaviour of police in Sweden after a man with Down syndrome was shot in Stockholm.

Algeria

Watch: Algerian women take aim and fire as interest in hunting grows

Holding their shotguns with a firm grip, several young Algerian women took part in a target shooting competition held ahead of hunting season.

Serbia

Slobodan Milosevic war crimes lawyer shot dead

Dragoslav Ognjanovic, 57, was shot dead in front of his apartment building in Belgrade, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

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Canada

Toronto mass shooting leaves 10-year-old girl, 18-year-old woman dead

A 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman have died after a gunman opened fire on a busy avenue in Toronto.

USA

Gunman arrested after deadly LA hostage standoff

The man took hostages and barricaded himself inside a grocery store on Saturday for three hours, fatally shooting a woman inside.

USA

Watch: Officer fires through window in Las Vegas car chase

Shots were fired through the window as Las Vegas police officers chased down two murder suspects.

USA

Candlelight vigil for victims of Maryland newspaper shooting

A candlelight vigil was held for the five victims shot dead at a newspaper office in Annapolis on Thursday

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Maryland man denied bail in newsroom rampage that killed five

A Maryland man charged with rampaging through a newsroom in Annapolis with a pump-action shotgun and killing five people was denied bail on Friday.

USA

Maryland shooter denied bail

It's after five people were killed at a newspaper in Annapolis Thursday

USA

Police say the attacker had previously sued the paper but lost

A gunman who shot and killed five newspaper employees in Maryland had previously sued the paper but lost the case

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As it happened this morning: Friday 29 June

As it happened this morning: Friday 29 June.

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Shooting in Liege, Belgium

A man killed two policewomen and a bystander in the Belgian city of Liege on Tuesday before being gunned down at a school

USA

Texas school gunman 'spared the lives of people he liked'

Dimitrios Pagourtzis killed ten people and wounded 13 after opening fire at a high school on Friday morning.

Pakistan

Heartbreak of Pakistani family after Texas school shooting

Pakistani exchange student Sabika Sheikh was in El Paso as part of a student exchange programme. It should have been an exciting opportunity for her, but instead she lost her life.

USA

US Texas school shooting vigil

Nine students and one teacher were killed in the US' 16th deadly school shooting in 2018

USA

US Texas school gunman charged with murder

The gunman, who was allegedly armed with a shotgun and a revolver, entered Sante Fe High School south of Houston as classes began on Friday morning

USA

Texas school shooting: What we know so far

The most up-to-date information on the Texas school shooting on Friday.

USA

"Multiple injured" in US school shooting

Multiple people have been injured in a shooting at a high school in the United States. Santa Fe High School in Texas went into lockdown when the alarm was raised.

USA

Police arrest 14-year-old after California school shooting

A 14-year-old student at a California high school shot and wounded a fellow student on Friday morning before being detained by police, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.