Gunman arrested after shooting incident at Canberra airport, with no injuries reported
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A gunman has been detained at Canberra airport after firing shots inside the terminal. ACT policing said one person was taken into custody and a firearm was recovered after Sunday afternoon’s shooting. No injuries wer...
Montenegro shooting leaves 12 dead including gunman
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Twelve people including the gunman have been killed in a mass shooting in Montenegro, after a man opened fire at random in the city of Cetinje, reportedly after a family dispute. State television said the 34-year-old ...
Gunman takes hostages at Beirut bank to try to free his trapped savings
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A Lebanese man armed with a shotgun took hostages at a Beirut bank on Thursday and threatened to set himself on fire unless he received his trapped savings. The man, identified as 42-year-old Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein,...
Forward! Is America’s latest third party marching to power – or oblivion?
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After the 2020 election, Americans were clear: they wanted a viable third political party. In modern US history the country has been dominated by the Republican and Democratic parties almost to the exclusion of all ot...
Bad luck Batgirl: the cancellation of the DC superhero’s film is only her latest misfortune
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Are they really cancelling Batgirl? Who does that, given the troubled history of Barbara Gordon’s Gotham vigilante in comics and on the big screen? These are the questions DC fans will be asking this week after it was...
‘Is sex worth the risk?’ Monkeypox just the latest virus to threaten gay intimacy
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Last week, I went to my doctor’s office for a long-scheduled sexually transmitted infection checkup, and started to cry a few minutes into my appointment. Like many gay men, I am on a daily drug called pre-exposure pr...