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Denmark

One dead after shooting incident in Copenhagen

14/02/2015

Canada

Canada: Valentine's Day mass shooting plot foiled say police

Canadian police say they have foiled an alleged plot to commit a mass shooting on Valentine’s Day in a public place. A woman picked up at Halifax

14/02/2015

USA

Man charged with murder over Muslim students' death

11/02/2015

France

Marseille housing estate sealed off after shots fired at police patrol car

French police have raised security levels in the southern city of Marseille after hooded gunmen armed with Kalashnikov rifles opened fire on a patrol

09/02/2015

France

Hooded gunmen fire at police in Marseille

09/02/2015

USA

Shots fired near US Vice President's home

US Secret Service officials said gun shots were fired near to the home of the Vice President Joe Biden in Delaware on Saturday night. He and his

19/01/2015

France

French policewoman killed in morning shooting near Paris

One of two police officers shot south of Paris this morning has died. It does not appear to be linked to the Charlie Hebdo attack.

08/01/2015

France

Charlie Hebdo's unrepentant record

Charlie Hebdo has been publishing satire since its creation in 1969. Its left-wing editorial content was like bare-knuckle boxing, pop, politics

07/01/2015

France

Charlie Hebdo attackers targeted specific journalists, fought gun battles with police

Paris prosecutor says gunmen who attacked Charlie Hebdo office appeared to know the time and place of magazine's editorial meeting, targeted specific journalists and twice exchanged shots with police

07/01/2015

USA

Condemnation of the Paris killings from the US

US Secretary of State John Kerry took the opportunity of a news conference to speak directly to the French people saying they have the support of all

07/01/2015

France

Twelve dead as terrorists attack the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo

At 11.30 am CET three masked gunmen entered the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris and slaughtered ten unarmed staff and

07/01/2015

France

Paris slaughter condemned by world leaders

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned the slaughter in Paris and added in her statement, “It is also an attack on freedom of speech and the

07/01/2015

France

Quartet of murdered French cartoonists among country's finest satirists

Ten members of the Charlie Hebdo editorial team have been shot dead in Paris, along with the two police officers who were guarding their offices

07/01/2015

France

François Hollande condemns 'cowardly' attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo

French President François Hollande wasted no time in going to the Charlie Hebdo offices to express his regrets and promise justice for the attackers

07/01/2015

USA

Army facility in Texas is put into lockdown during gun attack

A gunman has shot dead one person before killing himself in an incident at an Army facility in El Paso Texas. The shootings took place in a veterans’

07/01/2015

USA

Two-year-old boy kills mother with her own pistol in US Walmart store

Authorities in the US investigate the fatal shooting of a woman by her two-year-old son in a Walmart store

31/12/2014

USA

Two-year-old boy kills mother with her own pistol in Walmart store

31/12/2014

USA

USA: unarmed black man Enzell Ford shot three times by police says report

30/12/2014

USA

Protests in US after another fatal shooting of a black man by police

Demonstrations in St Louis after a white police officer shot dead a black man reported to have pointed a gun at him.

25/12/2014

USA

Tension in Missouri after police shoot dead another black teenager

Tension is high in Missouri in the US after police shot dead another black teenager

24/12/2014