gun violence

An 11-year-old British girl, Solaine Thornto, has been shot dead in the garden of her home in Brittany, western France. The local prosecutor said the family were enjoying a warm evening on Saturday in their garden in the small village of…

A man armed with four handguns killed two people and wounded five others when he fired into a crowd outside a high school graduation ceremony in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday. Police said they arrested one suspect, a 19-year-old man who…

A man has shot dead five neighbours including an 8-year-old boy with a semiautomatic rifle in Cleveland, Texas. Police said the shooting occurred after some of them had asked him to stop shooting in his front yard because it was keeping…

At least four people were killed and 28 wounded in a shooting that erupted during a late-night "Sweet 16" birthday celebration at a dance studio in the small U.S town of Dadeville, Alabama. Authorities said on Sunday that some of the…

Canada has passed regulations prohibiting the sale, purchase or transfer of handguns within the country.

The police in North Carolina arrested a juvenile suspect in the mass shooting that left five people including an off-duty police officer dead in the residential neighbourhood of Raleigh on Thursday. Police spokesman said Two people were…

U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the first major federal gun reform in 30 years.  "God willing, it's going to save a lot of lives," Biden said at the White House after signing the bill with his wife Jill by his side.

Tens of thousands of protesters have rallied across the United States to call for stricter gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings. Those taking part in the hundreds of marches carried slogans like "I want freedom from getting shot".…

A gunman opened fire at a manufacturing facility in northern Maryland on Thursday, killing at least three people and critically wounding a fourth before being taken into custody after a shootout with police. The assailant, who was not…

United States president Joe Biden on Thursday urged Congress to ban assault weapons, expand background checks and implement other sensible gun control measures to address a string of mass shootings that have struck the United States.…