On this day in 2016, ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide bomber who attacked a funeral tent, killing six people and wounding another 11.
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Bombings in Myanmar (May 7, 2005)
Two bombs exploded at a shopping mall in the Myanmar capital killing 11 and wounding 130 in an attack blamed on Karen ethnic group.
Anti-immigrant Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated by a left-wing activist who did not like his political views.
How can Western democratic states use surveillance technology to monitor who has COVID-19 and still respect privacy laws?
Boko Haram terrorists massacred upwards of 300 civilians in a Nigerian town near that country’s border with Cameroon which had been left unguarded.
50 years ago, 4 Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War were killed by US National Guardsmen: some protesters had burned an ROTC building
A labour protest in Chicago in 1886 descended into a riot when an anarchist lobbed a bomb at police called out to re-establish order.
As we recognise World Media Freedom Day, we must remember those journalists killed by the very terrorist groups they were investigating.
On this day in 2012 two suicide bombers detonated explosive-filled cars near a traffic police checkpoint in Dagestan’s capital, killing at least 13 people.
Justice was served to some extent when US Navy Seals located and killed Al Qaeda terrorist leader and 9/11 mastermind Usama bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011