Gunmen fire on Venezuela protest
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Masked gunmen open fire on students protesting in Caracas against planned constitutional reforms.
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Police fired shots into the air Monday to clear more than 100 protesters from outside the state economy ministry, the latest incident in a wave of confrontations and protests that have driven many tourists out of this historic Mexican city.
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Unidentified gunmen open fire on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania, witnesses and officials say.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan police fired tear gas and plastic bullets yesterday into a crowd of thousands protesting President Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez's decision that forced a television station critical of his leftist government off the air.
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Gunmen wounded President and Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta and opened fire on a car carrying the prime minister Monday in apparently coordinated attacks against the leadership of the recently independent nation
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At least 23 people have been killed in Honduras after gunmen fired on the bus in which they were traveling. The shooting occurred near the northern city of San Pedro Sula, 180 km north of the capital Tegucigalpa.
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Shots fired at a convoy carrying Guinea's president were an attempt to kill him, the  security minister says.
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Seven Venezuelans, including six soldiers, were killed near the border with Colombia, and Venezuelan authorities suspect that Colombian rebels could be behind the shootings, an official said late Saturday.
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Gunfire erupted as Haitians calling for the return of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched near the presidential palace on Thursday, killing at least three police officers as hundreds scattered to safety in side streets.
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Four Lebanese opposition supporters were shot dead in Beirut on Sunday during protests against power cuts, raising tensions in a country gripped by a political crisis.
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Gunmen opened fire on the Israeli Embassy in the West African nation of Mauritania on Friday morning, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan police firingtear gas and shotgun pellets clashed with rioting streetvendors in Caracas on Wednesday and 14 people were treated forgunshot wounds, officials and witnesses said.
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The Venezuelan government says six soldiers and an oil engineer have been killed in an attack on a military patrol and state oil company employees near the Colombian border.
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CARACAS, Venezuela &#151; Supporters of President Hugo Chavez marched through Caracas on Sunday, demanding respect for Venezuela's sovereignty following U.S. criticism and Colombia's acknowledgment that it paid a bounty to capture a rebel on Venezuelan soil.
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Gunmen opened fire on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania on Friday, wounding three bystanders including a French woman, days after anti-Israeli protests calling for the government to sever diplomatic ties.
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Tens of thousands of Venezuelan protesters marched on Saturday to the Caracas headquarters of an anti-government television station, which is being forced off the air after President Hugo Chavez's administration refused to renew its broadcasting license.
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A patrol of the Venezuelan armed forces were ambushed by presumed Colombian guerrillas in the border zone with Colombia, leaving seven dead, local press reported Saturday.