Violence targeting reporters in Mexico continues to rise, as 47-year-old Antonio de la Cruz was shot outside his home. A Mexican journalist was shot and killed while leaving his home in Ciudad Victoria in northeastern Mexico. His 23-year-old daughter was also seriously injured in the gun attack on Wednesday. The victim, 47-year-old Antonio de la … Read more
Videos of anti-Rwandan protests are circulating on social media as Kinshasa accuses Kigali of backing rebels in the eastern DRC. Life in Kinshasa was going well for Zawadi, a mother of two from Rwanda, until faraway fighting stoked Congolese anger against her country and videos of men with machetes prowling the city streets in search … Read more
New law is the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades and follows a spate of mass shootings in the United States. US President Joe Biden signed into law the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings. Citing the families of shooting … Read more
The law is the most impactful firearms measure produced by Congress since the enactment of the assault weapons ban in 1993. US President Joe Biden has signed the first major federal gun reform in three decades, a bipartisan compromise that comes in light of a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 … Read more
The US House of Representatives has passed significant gun-safety legislation for the first time in three decades in the United States, sending it to President Joe Biden, who is expected to sign it into law. The House voted 234-193 in favor of the bill on Friday, the day after the Supreme Court ruling broadly expanded … Read more
The United States Senate has approved a bipartisan package of modest gun safety measures as the country’s Supreme Court broadly expanded gun rights by ruling that Americans have a constitutional right to carry handguns in public for self-defence. The Senate’s action on Thursday and the Supreme Court ruling, which was pushed through by its conservative … Read more
The United States Supreme Court has deemed unconstitutional a decades-old New York state law that requires gun owners to show “proper cause” to carry a concealed handgun for self-defense in public. The law had given local authorities discretion to decide who receives a license to carry a concealed gun. The Supreme Court ruled in New … Read more
A gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in an attack at the Texas school in May. The primary school in Uvalde, Texas where a gunman wielding a semi-automatic fatally shot rifle 19 students and two teachers will be demolished, the city’s mayor has said. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin did not give a timeline for … Read more
Local police have been under intense scrutiny over their response to the attack at the Robb Elementary School where 19 children and two teachers were shot dead by an 18-year-old gunman. The head of the Uvalde school district police force – who oversaw the response to the school shooting in which 19 children and two … Read more
The tentative settlement also includes changes to police policies and training officers in traffic stops. A suburb in the US city of Minneapolis, Minnesota has agreed to pay $3.2m to the family of Daunte Wright, a Black man who was fatally shot by a police officer who said she confused her gun for her taser. … Read more