assassination

When Dimitri Tsafendas killed the architect of apartheid South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on September 6, 1966, the courts decided it was an act of a madman. Yet, the Greek-Mozambican knew very well that the man he stabbed to...

Queen Elizabeth II faced a potential assassination plot during a 1983 visit to the US, newly released FBI documents show. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a cache of files relating to the late Queen's travels to the US,...

Russia says it downed two drones that were targeting the Kremlin in Moscow last night and accused Ukraine of attempting to kill President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin said the drones were disabled by special services using electronic radar assets. Putin was...

Russia warned the US on Tuesday against ordering a “decapitation strike” on President Vladimir Putin. “Some 'unnamed officials' from the Pentagon actually threatened to deliver a 'decapitation strike' against the Kremlin,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russia’s TASS news agency...

Thousands of documents relating to the assassination of former President John F Kennedy were released on Thursday by the US National Archives. The latest release of 13,173 documents means 97% of documents related to the assassination have now been made...

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's vice-president, narrowly avoided assassination after a loaded gun jammed in an attempt to kill her. Footage shows the moment when Fernández de Kirchner, surrounded by a mob of supporters, finds herself face-to-face with a gunman...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has now survived three different assassination attempts, according to a new report in the Times of London. Assassins have attempted to kill the valiant, defiant Ukrainian leader using a variety of means since since Russia invaded...

The President of Haiti Jovenel Moise has been assassinated in an attack on his home in the nation's capital on Wednesday.

On the morning of September 26, 1989, journalist and New Democracy MP Pavlos Bakoyannis was assassinated in his office building by the November 17 terrorist organization, the act becoming the most talked-about event of the year. At the time, Bakoyannis...

Greek Prosecutor Maria-Sophia Vaitsi called for the indictment of United States former agent William Bazil who is implicated in the phone tapping scandal of 2004 and the Pythia Plan, an assassination plot against former conservative prime minister Kostas Karamanlis. There...