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‘You have no idea what you have unleashed,’ says Charlie Kirk’s widow in her first public statement

Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA, died on Wednesday after he was shot at during an event in Utah Valley University.

Charlie Kirk’s killing has America at war with itself. Foreigners & visa-seekers ‘warned’

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, gunned down this week, was no ordinary influencer. He helped bring the Trump administration to power. His death has deepened America’s Left-Right divide.

Trump shares 80,000 pages of material on former US president John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963

Kennedy's murder was blamed on lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald, but many Americans believe it was a conspiracy despite federal agencies reaffirming the official conclusion.

Asif Merchant, Pakistani arrested for assassination plot in US, part of new Iranian covert campaign

Merchant began travelling to Iran in 2017, married a woman in Tehran last year, then shuttled between the city and Karachi several times. He went to US in Nov 2023, and again in April.

Pakistan national arrested by FBI in US for foiled plot to assassinate Trump

Asif Raza Merchant said he wanted to target individuals in US ‘hurting Pakistan and the world, [the] Muslim world’, according to court documents, adding ‘these are not just normal people’.

Donald Trump shot in the ear during campaign, FBI to probe rally

Shooter dead, 1 rally attendee killed, 2 others injured. Law enforcement officials told reporters they had tentatively identified suspected shooter but were not ready to do so publicly.

Slovak PM Robert Fico shot at multiple times & injured in abdomen, police detain suspected attacker

Fico is being evacuated from the town of Handlova to Banská Bystrica due to the need for emergency intervention, according to local reports. 

Targeted assassinations now have a buffet of tech options—flying Ginsu, drones, AI guns

Kataib Hezbollah leader Abu Baqir al-Saadi was assassinated using a ‘flying Ginsu’ this month. It’s among the increasingly sophisticated weapon systems being used in targeted killings.

How a poisoner’s handbook helped Vladimir Putin rise to absolute power

Throughout Putin's political career, dozens of powerful rivals have died—in circumstances far too opaque for Russian authorities to even trouble themselves with the pretence of an investigation.

Suspects in Ecuador presidential candidate assassination are Colombians, say police

Fernando Villavicencio, a vocal critic of corruption and organized crime, was killed less than two weeks before the election.

On Camera

In Bihar, BJP is courting upper castes—a clear shift from its 2020 strategy

With two parties led by Dalit leaders now part of NDA, the BJP is hopeful of winning a large number of reserved constituencies.

US sanctions Rosneft & Lukoil: What we know of 2 oil giants that produce half of Russia’s crude

Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.