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A idosa Tânia Andrade Lima, de 81 anos, foi assaltada na esquina das ruas João de Barros com Venâncio Flores, no Leblon, zona sul do Rio. Na ação, o assaltante deu um tiro na mão da vítima, levou seus pertences e fugiu com um comparsa em uma motocicleta. Equipes da Operação Leblon Presente, do bairro, chegaram em seguida e socorreram a vítima, que foi levada para o Hospital Municipal Miguel Couto, onde está internada. Notícias relacionadas:Três suspeitos são mortos pela polícia militar em assalto a casa em SP.Polícia Federal e MPSP fazem operação contra tráfico de drogas.À noite, o Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) emitiu nota oficial sobre o caso, que envolveu uma professora aposentada da instituição. "O Museu Nacional/UFRJ manifesta sua solidariedade à professora aposentada Tania Andrade Lima, vítima de um gravíssimo episódio de violência ocorrido nessa quinta-feira, (15) no Leblon. “Destacamos, nesse momento de extrema preocupação, a dedicação da professora ao longo de décadas de serviços prestados à instituição", diz a nota. A UFRJ lamentou que o episódio tenha ocorrido justamente no Dia do Professor, dedicado à valorização desses profissionais tão especiais e imprescindíveis na sociedade. "Ocorrências como essa nos levam a refletir sobre o agravamento crescente do cenário de violência em nossa cidade”, afirma.

The police use a mild lathi-charge to disperse activists of both parties

The PM was speaking after violent attacks at Polish schools this week left one dead and others injured.

Police in Durban were battling a fresh wave of anti-migrant unrest. Shops were looted, homes were torched and foreign nationals were targeted as crowds took to the streets for a second day. The violence has revived fears of rising xenophobic tensions over immigration.

The attack comes after police announced the detention of 76 people across Poland in connection with previous incidents.

South Africa has experienced recurrent outbreaks of violence, often targeting migrants from neighbouring countries.

Protesters in Barcelona set fires, built barricades and hurled projectiles as violence erupted at a housing protest.

A Mexico City shooting killed a man and wounded Débora Sáenz, ex-director of IMSS sports trust FIDEIMSS. Police have not given a motive. The post Mexico City Shooting Wounds Ex-FIDEIMSS Chief Sáenz appeared first on The Rio Times.

French high school students lit fires outside schools and faced off with police on Friday as a protest movement that has forced the closure of some 400 establishments showed no sign of abating. The movement, which began last week in the Paris region and rapidly spread nationwide, has seen teenage pupils at lycees in their final years of schooling block access to buildings and clash with police. The students say their school hours are excessively long, conditions are inadequate including...

Some 400 French schools have been closed and will remain shuttered on Friday as the student protests that began in high schools in the Paris region last week have spread across France and grown increasingly violent. The students are protesting grievances including teacher shortages and dilapidated school buildings. The government has blamed the hard left for initiating the movement.

Civil aviation changed after 9/11 to keep attackers outside cockpits. The Flydubai scare flips the dilemma.

The confessed gunman says he was promised up to US$4,000; a wounded 72-year-old supporter has died and the suspects' detention expires on election day. The post Peru: Hitman Says He Was Promised US$4,000 to Kill Candidate ‘China Polo’ as Second Victim Dies appeared first on The Rio Times.

Youth Congress and SFI activists have blamed each other for triggering the violence by throwing stones and bottles

The deaths sparked a national outcry about the scale of violence against women in the country.

Rising bilateral tensions between the U.S. and Cuba repeatedly played out on the international stage during last week’s meeting of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.  On Tuesday, the Cuban delegation to the UN walked out during U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to UNGA in apparent protest against what […] The post Cuba and US delegations exchange war of words at the UN appeared first on Latin America Reports.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the murders are a "stain on our national conscience".

The violence comes amid a wider rise in deadly mass shootings across South Africa, with residents in affected communities increasingly demanding protection as authorities confront persistent gang activity and illegal firearms.

Students displayed and circulated videos of the alleged attack

Four people were killed and four wounded near the capital of Kingstown on the islands, known as a tourism destination.

"The already dire hunger crisis in South Sudan is becoming increasingly critical as violence, extreme weather and dwindling aid leave millions without enough food" says UN. 

Some stray incidents of violence and vehicle damage were reported in Itanagar and adjoining areas

Three gunmen barged into a small house in an impoverished neighborhood in South Africa and opened fire on a group enjoying a party inside, killing at least 11 people, police and local authorities said Wednesday.

On September 22, between 7.20 p.m. and 7.45 p.m., when Raju was alone at the shop on the first floor, Hari allegedly went and started arguing with him. He allegedly assaulted Raju, leaving him critically injured.

An attacker opened fire near a secondary school in western Turkey on Tuesday and injured at least 11 people, officials said. The suspected shooter was arrested. At least two of the injured were in serious condition, Justice Minister Akin Gürlek said in a statement on X. The attack took place in front of a vocational and technical secondary school in Turgutlu district, in Manisa province, the provincial governor’s office said. Police and medical teams were immediately sent to the scene. HaberTurk...