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Serbia
Drive-by shooting leaves several dead and injured in Serbia
Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic described the country’s second mass shooting in 48 hours as a “terrorist act”.
- by Antonio Bronic and Aleksandar Vasovic
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Why are Americans shooting strangers and neighbours?
Experts blame a cocktail of factors - including a growing sense of danger - for a spate of shootings around homes.
- by Danielle Paquette, John D. Harden and Scott Clement
Texas man kills five neighbours after they complained about noise
A Texas man went next door with a rifle and began shooting his neighbours after the family asked him to stop firing rounds in his yard because their baby was sleeping.
- by Juan Lozano
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USA
‘It was chaotic’: Shooter kills four at 16th birthday party in Alabama
Among those killed was Phil Dowdell, a high school senior who planned to play college football, and who was celebrating his sister’s 16th birthday.
- by Julia Harte
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USA
Bank employee kills four in Kentucky, including governor’s friend
A bank building in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, has become the scene of America’s latest mass shooting.
- by Dylan Lovan
‘This is not normal’: Democrats expelled from state legislature after gun protest in Nashville
“We called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy,” said representative Justin Jones before being kicked out of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
- by Jonathan Mattise and Kimberlee Kruesi
‘Calm down? Children are dying!’ Nashville shooting sparks shouting match between congressmen
Representative Jamaal Bowman, a former middle school principal, told reporters that Republicans were “gutless” for not backing gun control laws after this week’s shooting.
- by Andrew Jeong
Opinion
US politics
America, like Bill Cosby, has become a fallen hero
I loved the US. Now, I wouldn’t take a Green Card if it came with a bag of cash and a date with George Clooney.
- by Kerri Sackville
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USA
‘Something bad is about to happen,’ Nashville school shooter warned friend
In an apparent suicide message minutes before the rampage, 28-year-old Audrey Hale wrote an Instagram note to a former school basketball teammate that declared: “I’m planning to die today.”
- by Farrah Tomazin
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USA
‘Some resentment’ may have fuelled school shooter’s attack, says police chief
The attacker, who police said identified as transgender, wielded two “assault-style” rifles and a pistol in the latest US mass shooting, police said.
- by Kevin Wurm
Republican, of gun-toting family photo, ‘heartbroken’ by shooting
The first-time congressman represents the Tennessee district that includes the school where a 28-year-old has killed at least six people.
- by Mariana Alfaro