On January 4, 2011, Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was assassinated in broad daylight by one of his own elite police guards –an act that laid bare a “vein of deep-rooted extremism” running through Pakistan’s society. The killer, Mumtaz Qadri, emptied two magazines into the outspoken governor, later calmly confessing that he did it because Taseer […]
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Gunmen assassinate Mexican mayor Carlos Manzo
URUAPAN – Gunmen shot dead the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, during a public Day of the Dead event on Saturday in Mexico’s violence-hit state of Michoacan. According to the National Public Security Agency, Manzo was killed in the city center when unidentified attackers opened fire on the gathering. Two suspects have been arrested, while […]
Argentinian Vice President Survives Assassination Attempt
The vice president of Argentina survived an assassination attempt outside her home Thursday in Buenos Aires. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was returning to her residence when a man approached her out of a large crowd. He pulled the trigger of a handgun at her head, but the weapon misfired, according to multiple reports. Authorities were […]
Wife of slain Haiti leader says killers left her for dead
The wife of Haiti’s murdered president, seriously wounded in the very attack that killed her husband, listened in terror as the gunmen ransacked their home, she said in her first interview since the assassination. The killers eventually found what they were looking for in president Jovenel Moise’s residence, and made cursory efforts on their way […]
Slain Haiti leader’s funeral set for July 23, ex-president Aristide back home
The funeral for Haiti’s slain president Jovenel Moise will take place on July 23, officials said Friday, as the troubled nation’s first democratically elected leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide arrived home after receiving medical care in Cuba. The state funeral services will take place in Cap-Haitien, a historic city in the north of Haiti, which has slid […]
Colombian mercenaries say they were hired to capture Haiti leader
Colombian mercenaries detained for allegedly taking part in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise say they were hired to capture him and hand him over to the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Colombia’s police said on Thursday. Colombian intelligence agents are cooperating with Haitian authorities in investigating the July 7 murder of Moise. Two Americans […]
Widow of Haiti’s slain leader speaks as political intrigue swirls
The widow of slain Haitian leader Jovenel Moise, who was critically wounded in the attack that claimed his life, on Saturday issued her first public remarks since the assault, calling on the nation not to “lose its way.” Martine Moise’s comments came three days after she was airlifted to a Miami hospital for treatment of […]
Who will lead Haiti after president’s killing?
Three days after the assassination of Haitian leader Jovenel Moise, questions are mounting about how the power vacuum left by his sudden death will be filled, in a violence-wracked country with no working parliament and no workable succession process. The following is a look at what could happen next in the impoverished Caribbean nation, which […]
US calls on Haiti to hold elections this year as planned
The United States on Wednesday called on Haiti to go ahead with elections scheduled later this year, saying they would provide a path forward after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise. “It is still the view of the United States that elections this year should proceed,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters. Price said […]
Haiti president assassinated at home, wife wounded
Haiti President Jovenel Moise was assassinated and his wife wounded early Wednesday in an attack at their home, the interim prime minister announced, an act that risks further destabilizing the Caribbean nation beset by gang violence and political volatility. Claude Joseph said he was now in charge of the country and urged the public to […]