assassination

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...

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...

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...

A pro-ISIS hacking group known as United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) published a fresh list of international targets from places around the world, including Greece. The list, written in English and Arabic, included the addresses of those targeted and e-mail...

A Greek living in Melbourne who has survived a murder attempt made by his wife, sued her and is asking for compensation amounting to $3 million. Chris Soteriou was a businessman who was stabbed in 2010 by his wife's lover...