Shootings

Belgium

Brussels' top prosecutor slams inaction over drug gang violence

There have been 57 shootings in the Belgian capital to date this year, including 20 since the start of the summer, resulting in at least four deaths.

12/08/2025

World News

US shooting: Democratic lawmakers are gunned down in Minnesota

The Democratic leader of the state House of Representatives and her husband were shot dead, while a state senator and his wife were seriously wounded. The governor calls it a politically targeted act.

14/06/2025

Europe News

Germany's Friedrich Merz accuses Russia of 'terror against civilians'

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met with caretaker Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof in Berlin on Tuesday, where the leaders discussed a school shooting in Austria earlier in the day and recent developments in Ukraine.

10/06/2025

Belgium

One injured in Brussels shooting as city grapples with gang violence

Authorities in Belgium's capital recorded 11 gun attacks in the first six weeks of this year alone, with two people killed and four injured.

30/04/2025

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Mexicans mourn murdered congressman

Hundreds of people paid their last respects on Tuesday to Benito Aguas Atlahua, a member of the country's ruling coalition, who died in hospital on Monday night after being shot earlier in the day in Zongolica, Mexico.

11/12/2024

Europe News

Five people wounded in shootout linked to drug trafficking in France

Hundreds of people were involved in the drug-related violence in the western French city of Poitiers, with teenagers among those injured.

01/11/2024

USA

Four killed in shooting in nightlife area of city in Alabama

Birmingham city police department believe that multiple gunmen shot at 22 people in total whilst on the pavement, four of them fatally.

22/09/2024

Sweden

Stockholm police investigating suspected shooting near Israeli embassy

According to Swedish authorities, several people have been detained and houses raided after an incident in the inner east of the capital.

17/05/2024

USA

Police officer, deputy shot dead in upstate New York

Shooter also pronounced dead after police trace suspicious vehicle to address in Liverpool.

15/04/2024

USA

At least 8 children shot at US Super Bowl parade

Some 22 people were hit by gunfire and one person was killed in Kansas on Wednesday.

15/02/2024

Turkey

Turkey arrests 47 alleged IS members over Istanbul church attack

The Interior Ministry said police raided 30 locations and arrested 47 people as part of the investigation into the attack.

29/01/2024

Tech News

Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

The controversial far-right host was previously 'permanently banned' from the platform in 2018 after repeatedly claiming the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax.

10/12/2023

Russia

Russia shooting: 14-year-old girl kills friend before killing herself

Five other children were injured in the attack at a school in Bryansk, southwest Russia.

07/12/2023

Belgium

Commemorations in Brussels, as Islamic State claims shooting attack

Swedish authorities say the suspect had previously served a prison sentence in the Nordic nation, but have not released any specific details of the crime, nor length of sentence.

18/10/2023

My Europe Series

France has a growing gang problem. It's so far failed to tackle it

Macron vows the state will be back in the quartiers nord of Marseille. What this statement actually implies is that it isn’t there now. One class-action lawsuit is working on bringing this to court.

04/10/2023

World News

Rotterdam: Police say two people killed in shootings at hospital, home

A lone gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire in an apartment and a hospital in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam on Thursday, killing two people and seriously injuring a 14-year-old girl, police said.

28/09/2023

World News

California biker bar shooting kills at least four people

At least four people have been killed in a shooting by a former police officer at a biker bar in Southern California

24/08/2023

World News

'Gun laws are stupid': The Europeans pushing for looser gun controls

Possessing firearms is the "measure of a free and open society", one UK-based firearms advocate told Euronews.

01/08/2023

Culture news

US panel recommends $1-million reparations for slavery victims

The 1100-page document includes more than 100 recommendations on how to address the harms of slavery.

02/07/2023

USA

Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ club mass killer gets life in prison

Aldrich did not reveal a motivation for the shootings and declined to address the court during the sentencing part of the hearing.

27/06/2023