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13-Year Sentence for Attempted Assassination of Japanese Prime Minister

On April 15, 2023, a Japanese court sentenced a man to 13 years in prison for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Fumio Kishida with a homemade explosive device in Wakayama during a campaign event, injuring two police officers; this follows the 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo...

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Munich Attack: Two Dead, City Council Proposes Relief Fund

On Saturday, a 37-year-old woman and her two-year-old daughter died from injuries sustained in last Thursday's attack on a Verdi demonstration in Munich, where a driver intentionally drove into the crowd, injuring 37 others. The city council is establishing a relief fund and considering flexible wor...

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Narrow Victory Sets Up Ecuadorian Presidential Runoff

Daniel Noboa narrowly won Ecuador's first-round presidential election by 18,000 votes over Luisa González, leading to a runoff election on April 13th amidst widespread violence linked to drug cartels.

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Duterte Suggests Killing Senators to Secure Senate Seats

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte suggested killing approximately 15 senators to make room for his preferred opposition candidates during a Manila rally on Thursday, escalating his conflict with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. amid the May national elections.

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Surge in Attacks on Election Workers and Posters in Berlin Before Bundestag Election

In the two weeks before the German Bundestag election, Berlin saw 251 attacks on election workers and campaign posters, a sharp increase from 49 reported earlier, affecting all parties but especially the CDU (82 incidents), AfD (65), and SPD (50). Incidents ranged from vandalism to physical assault,...

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Ecuador Election: Noboa Leads Despite Crisis

Ecuador's election on Sunday involves 14 million voters choosing a new president, vice president, national assembly members, and Andean parliament representatives; incumbent Daniel Noboa leads despite his administration's human rights abuses, high murder rate (peaking at 750 in January 2025, down fr...

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Hanau Attack: Five Years Later, Germany's Struggle with Right-Wing Extremism

A right-wing extremist's 2020 attack in Hanau, Germany, killed nine and injured seven, targeting migrants; five years later, families criticize insufficient action to prevent similar tragedies, highlighting Germany's struggle with right-wing extremism.

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Munich Car Ramming Kills Two, Suspect Had Islamist Motive

A car ramming in Munich, Germany, on Thursday killed a 37-year-old woman and her two-year-old daughter, and injured at least 39 others; authorities believe the Afghan suspect acted with an Islamist motive, but have ruled out connections to terrorist groups.

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Bratislava Murders Highlight Rise of Homophobic Extremism in Slovakia

Two young men were murdered in Bratislava in October 2022 for frequenting an LGBTQ+ club, mirroring the 2018 murder of an investigative journalist, exposing a pattern of politically motivated violence fueled by online radicalization and a rise in anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment in Slovakia.

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Bangladesh Crackdown: 1,500 Arrested Amidst Post-Revolution Unrest

Bangladesh has arrested over 1,500 people since Saturday due to widespread mob violence following a student-led revolution six months ago that ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina; the government's Operation Devil Hunt, involving army troops, targets groups connected to both Hasina and her opponents,...

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Surge in Attacks on Election Workers and Posters in Berlin Before Bundestag Election

In the two weeks before the German Bundestag election, Berlin saw 251 attacks on election workers and campaign posters, a sharp increase from 49 two weeks prior; the CDU was targeted most (82 cases), followed by the AfD (65) and SPD (50).

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Underreporting of Right-Wing Extremist Killings in Germany: Discrepancies in Official Recognition

A Polish man, Andrzej Fratczak, was murdered in Lübbenau, Germany on October 7, 1990, by three German men; the case was initially classified without acknowledging the politically right-wing motive, but was later officially recognized as such in 2015, becoming the first entry on a list of 87 official...

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