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Police Arrest Man For Killing Four In Japan Gun Attack

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“Behind her came a man wearing camouflage and carrying a large knife, who stabbed her in the back,” the 72-year-old witness said. He said he called emergency services while neighbours tried to resuscitate the woman. The attacker announced: “I killed her because I wanted to,” according to an eyewitness cited by Kyodo news. Local media said he then fired what has been described as a hunting gun at police officers who arrived at the scene. The officers were inside a patrol car and the attacker placed the weapon against a window of the vehicle and fired twice, NHK reported. The slain officers were identified as Yoshiki Tamai, 46, and Takuo Ikeuchi, 61. Local media said the man then barricaded himself inside his father’s home, where he remained most of the night, with occasional gunshots heard. Two women, including the suspect’s mother, escaped the house, one at around 8:35 pm and the other soon after midnight. The suspect was finally detained. A woman was found at the scene with injuries and later pronounced dead. Japan was left reeling in July last year when former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead in broad daylight with an apparently homemade gun. Abe’s accused assassin, Tetsuya Yamagami, reportedly targeted the politician over his links to the Unification Church. And last month, a man was arrested for allegedly hurling a pipe bomb-like explosive towards Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as he campaigned in the western city of Wakayama. Kishida was unharmed and a man arrested on the scene will undergo a three-month psychiatric examination, a regional court said this week. The suspect has reportedly remained tight-lipped about his motive for that failed attack.

Japanese police on Friday detained a suspect who had holed up in a building after allegedly killing four people, including two police officers, in...

Fresh Clashes As NATO Troops Called InTo Northern Kosovo Towns

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Fresh Clashes As NATO Troops Called In To Northern Kosovo Towns

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Ghana’s Famous Author And Feminist Ama Ata Aidoo Dies At 81

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Ghana's Famous Author And Feminist Ama Ata Aidoo Dies At 81

One of Africa's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo, has died aged 81. A renowned feminist, she depicted and celebrated the condition...

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Police Discover 45 Bags Of Body Parts In Bush

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Mexican authorities have found 45 bags containing human body parts which they said could be the ones of the missing call centre staff. The bags...

Fatal India Train Crash Claims 288 Lives, 850 Others Injured (PHOTOS)

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At least 288 people were killed and more than 850 injured in a horrific three-train collision in India, officials said on Saturday.   The accident is...

President Biden Signs Debt Ceiling Bill, Avoiding Govt Default

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President Joe Biden has signed a debt ceiling increase, raising the government's borrowing limit and averting a potential default on the national debt.  The deal...

Ex-Vice-President Mike Pence joins White House Race

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Ex-Vice-President Mike Pence joins White House Race

Former US Vice-President Mike Pence has officially filed paperwork to join an increasingly crowded field of Republicans running for president. Mr. Pence, 63, is set...

Rwanda Genocide Suspect Unfit To Stand Trial, UN Court Rules

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Rwanda Genocide Suspect Unfit To Stand Trial, UN Court Rules

An 88-year-old man accused of being a major financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide is unfit to stand trial, a UN court has ruled. Félicien...

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