#assassination attempt

#assassination attempt

The No. 2 officer at the Russian military intelligence agency known as GRU was shot and wounded in Moscow, in what investigators called an assassination attempt. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev was hospitalized on February 6 after being shot several times, including in the back, the Investigative Committee said in a statement. He was hospitalized in unknown condition. The gunmen fled the scene, the committee said. Unconfirmedmedia reports said Alexeyev was shot on the stairwell of his apartment building as he was leaving.

The night before her wedding to Salman Rushdie in 2021, the American poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths was fretting about her best friend. Kamilah Aisha Moon was due to read a poem at the ceremony, but no one had heard from her. Her phone was going straight to voicemail and staff at her hotel said she hadn't checked in. We'll find her. She wouldn't miss your wedding, Griffiths's sister, Melissa, assured her.

Violence broke out in Bangladesh's capital early on Friday after a youth leader of the country's 2024 pro-democracy uprising who was injured in an assassination attempt died in a hospital in Singapore. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Dhaka after the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, 32, was announced, to demand that his killers be arrested. Several buildings in the capital, including those housing the country's two leading newspapers, were set on fire, according to authorities, with staff trapped inside.

screenshot Tucker Carlson is now openly alleging that the Trump-era FBI not just Biden's is lying about critical details of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. That is the core, explosive thrust of his just-released video (embedded below): that the very federal law-enforcement leadership now serving in Trump's second term including his newly installed FBI team led by Kash Patel and Dan Bongino is obscuring what really happened on the rooftop where Thomas Crooks nearly killed a former president.

Acting U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Joe Thompson described the incident as a political assassination, a term rarely used in the U.S., highlighting the rise of violent political extremism.