A Berlin court found former Stasi officer Martin Naumann guilty of killing Czeslaw Kukuczka as he tried to flee to the West through the Friedrichstrasse border point in Berlin in 1974. At least 140 people died trying to cross the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1989, and many hundreds more died … Read more
A verdict is expected in the trial of a former East German secret police officer accused of the murder of a Polish firefighter at a Berlin border crossing 50 years ago. Martin Naumann, now 80, is accused of shooting Czesław Kukuczka in the back at point-blank range on March 29, 1974, as Kukuczka walked to … Read more
Thirteen people were shot, including one fatally, during a party in an Oklahoma town early Saturday, police say. The violence in southwest Oklahoma City is among more than 410 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, according to statistics from the Gun Violence Archive. The independent file defines a mass shooting as … Read more
Key events Show only key events Lively JavaScript to use this function Peacekeepers in Lebanon 'increasingly in danger', UN says U.N. peacekeepers chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix told the security council that the safety of more than 10,400 U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon was “increasingly endangered” and that operations were virtually halted. They had been detained since the … Read more