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Retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis cut an arresting figure in his crisp uniform, dark blue cap -- and a sign demanding "the truth".

• 23 августа 2014, 13:04

The man who shot dead Beatles star John Lennon was denied parole for an eighth time after being deemed likely to violate the law again.

• 23 августа 2014, 11:10

National Guard troops withdrew from a US town gripped by nearly two weeks of protests over the fatal police shooting of a black teenager.

• 22 августа 2014, 15:17

The midwestern US town of Ferguson was recovering from another night of violence.

• 20 августа 2014, 12:35

Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old gunned down by a white officer in a suburb of St Louis was shot at least six times.

• 18 августа 2014, 12:01

Several hundred people protested in New York against police brutality after the shooting death of a black teenager in Missouri .

• 15 августа 2014, 11:16

Missouri police arrested two journalists reporting on the unrest about an unarmed black teenager that was shot dead by police.

• 14 августа 2014, 13:57

The FBI opened investigation after the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager led to rioting in a Missouri and stirred racial tensions.

• 12 августа 2014, 11:31

A lone gunman killed at least six people, most of them children, during a domestic dispute in Texas that triggered a tense ongoing standoff with armed police.

• 10 июля 2014, 10:48

At least nine people were murdered in Chicago over the Independence Day weekend in an explosion of gun violence branded "simply unacceptable" by its mayor.

• 08 июля 2014, 13:24

The son-in-law of a Monaco heiress gunned down in a Mafia-style contract killing has retracted his confession to ordering the shooting, saying he did not fully understand police.

• 03 июля 2014, 14:50

Gunmen opened fire at a mosque in insurgency-hit southern Thailand, killing one man and injuring another a day after Muslims began observing the holy month of Ramadan, police said.

• 01 июля 2014, 12:03

A journalist with Russian public television has been shot dead in east Ukraine where pro-Moscow separatists are battling Ukrainian forces, the media worker's employer Channel One said.

• 30 июня 2014, 13:16

A French court ordered the extradition to Belgium of a man suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, but his lawyer said he would appeal the ruling.

• 27 июня 2014, 10:07

Eight suspected illegal gold miners were found shot dead at a disused mine near Johannesburg at the weekend, police said.

• 23 июня 2014, 15:17

Chinese police shot dead 13 people in the restive Xinjiang region after they drove into a police building and set off an explosion on Saturday, regional authorities said.

• 21 июня 2014, 10:51

Unknown gunmen shot dead a popular female singer in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar in the latest attack against women artists, officials said.

• 19 июня 2014, 14:32

The US Supreme Court ruled it was illegal to buy a gun on behalf of someone else who did not go through the background check.

• 17 июня 2014, 13:05

A rifle-toting gunman killed a 14-year-old student at an Oregon high school Tuesday, the latest in a spate of US shootings that prompted a renewed warning from President Barack Obama.

• 11 июня 2014, 11:48

A gun-toting couple possibly linked to anti-government militias killed two US cops execution-style and left a swastika on the bodies, in America's latest chilling shooting rampage, police said.

• 11 июня 2014, 09:55