Gunman

Five Japanese nationals in Pakistan escaped unhurt on Friday from a suicide bomb attack on their vehicle as police shot down a gunman accompanying the bomber, a police spokesperson said, but two bystanders were among the three injured.

Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians, including a member of Hamas, in raids in the occupied West Bank on Friday and the Palestinian Health Ministry reported at least one person was killed in an Israeli settler rampage near Ramallah.

Israel said Friday it was targeting a "Hamas gunman" when it killed in Gaza seven aid workers whose deaths caused an international outcry, with its military admitting a series of "grave mistakes" and violations of its own rules of engagement.

A gunman who shot and wounded two people and took 17 passengers hostage Tuesday at the main bus station in Rio de Janeiro surrendered and freed his captives after negotiations, Brazilian police said.

Two police officers and a first responder were shot and killed early Sunday in the US state of Minnesota after answering a call about a domestic dispute in a house with multiple children inside, authorities said.

Two people were killed in Israel when a gunman opened fire on a crowded bus stop near the southern town of Kiryat Malakhi on Friday, a hospital and police said.

In a brave act, two people were seen tackling the gunman who allegedly opened fire at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory rally in the US on Thursday.

A gunman killed four people at a market in the southeastern Georgian city of Rustavi, before being detained by police, the Black Sea nation's interior ministry said on Friday.

Romeo Nance, 23, suspected of shooting dead seven people in two separate homes near Chicago in the US state of Illinois, was found deadfrom self-inflicted gunshot wounds, a report said.

A man shot seven people to death before killing himself with a handgun in the US, the authorities said on Tuesday.

A shooting on Thursday at a high school in the midwestern US state of Iowa left "multiple gunshot victims," local authorities said, adding the incident was over but without confirming if anyone had been killed.

The 49-year-old man was arrested after he opened fire at a store known as Sangha newsagents

Bells rang across the Czech Republic on Saturday and flags flew at half mast as the country mourned victims of the country's worst mass shooting that killed 14 at a Prague university on Thursday.

Czech authorities sought a motive Friday in a student's gun attack that killed 14 people at a Prague university, where tearful mourners have left a sea of candles to grieve for the dead.

Authorities said the gunman - a 24-year-old student at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague - had been "eliminated".

Five Japanese nationals in Pakistan escaped unhurt on Friday from a suicide bomb attack on their vehicle as police shot down a gunman accompanying the bomber, a police spokesperson said, but two bystanders were among the three injured.

Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians, including a member of Hamas, in raids in the occupied West Bank on Friday and the Palestinian Health Ministry reported at least one person was killed in an Israeli settler rampage near Ramallah.

Israel said Friday it was targeting a "Hamas gunman" when it killed in Gaza seven aid workers whose deaths caused an international outcry, with its military admitting a series of "grave mistakes" and violations of its own rules of engagement.

A gunman who shot and wounded two people and took 17 passengers hostage Tuesday at the main bus station in Rio de Janeiro surrendered and freed his captives after negotiations, Brazilian police said.

Two police officers and a first responder were shot and killed early Sunday in the US state of Minnesota after answering a call about a domestic dispute in a house with multiple children inside, authorities said.

Two people were killed in Israel when a gunman opened fire on a crowded bus stop near the southern town of Kiryat Malakhi on Friday, a hospital and police said.

In a brave act, two people were seen tackling the gunman who allegedly opened fire at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory rally in the US on Thursday.

A gunman killed four people at a market in the southeastern Georgian city of Rustavi, before being detained by police, the Black Sea nation's interior ministry said on Friday.

Romeo Nance, 23, suspected of shooting dead seven people in two separate homes near Chicago in the US state of Illinois, was found deadfrom self-inflicted gunshot wounds, a report said.

A man shot seven people to death before killing himself with a handgun in the US, the authorities said on Tuesday.

A shooting on Thursday at a high school in the midwestern US state of Iowa left "multiple gunshot victims," local authorities said, adding the incident was over but without confirming if anyone had been killed.

The 49-year-old man was arrested after he opened fire at a store known as Sangha newsagents

Bells rang across the Czech Republic on Saturday and flags flew at half mast as the country mourned victims of the country's worst mass shooting that killed 14 at a Prague university on Thursday.

Czech authorities sought a motive Friday in a student's gun attack that killed 14 people at a Prague university, where tearful mourners have left a sea of candles to grieve for the dead.

Authorities said the gunman - a 24-year-old student at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague - had been "eliminated".