Silvia Raquenel Villanueva, Mexico’s most prominent “narco abogada,” or lawyer to the drug lords, continues to receive threats, which she deflects with prayer.

The assassination Monday morning of a state police commander brought to 12 the number of police officers who have been killed in Mexico State since Thursday, officials said.

A car bomb killed a prominent Croatian journalist and one of his colleagues, an act that the country’s president and prime minister called an assassination.

Ruslan B. Yamadayev, whose brother has been involved in a long-running feud with the Kremlin-backed Chechen president, was shot to death in the heart of Moscow on Wednesday.

Ruslan B. Yamadayev, whose brother has been involved in a long-running feud with the Kremlin-backed Chechen president, was shot to death in the heart of Moscow on Wednesday.

The killing of Fouad Ali Hussein al-Douri, a Sunni mosque imam who directed a group of about 65 guards, was the latest in a string of attacks on “Awakening Councils.”

Police investigating a suspected conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his predecessor, Tony Blair, arrested a 29-year-old man, the fifth arrest in two weeks.

Police investigating a suspected conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his predecessor, Tony Blair, arrested a 29-year-old man in central England.

Gunmen opened fire on people leaving a mosque in Mogadishu on Sunday night, killing one of the country?s senior U.N. officials and wounding his son and another man.

An explosion killed a Somali official, his wife and four other people on Saturday in Mogadishu, witnesses and officials said.