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Ukrainian intelligence agent Vladyslav Reut says he did not kill Anastasiia Berezovska - a woman suspected of trying to assassinate a multimillionaire in Monaco - despite earlier confessing to it.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

One North Korean commando, captured during a daring 1968 mission to assassinate the South Korean president in Seoul, recalls the confusion he felt when first encountering Christianity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

The Church Committee recommended, and Congress subsequently enacted, dozens of sweeping reforms to foreign intelligence collection activities, as well as restraints on future efforts by the U.S. government to assassinate people.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026

Among those released so far are Spanish-Venezuelan rights activist Rocio San Miguel, arrested in 2024 over her purported role in an alleged plot to assassinate Maduro.

From Barron's ● Jan. 17, 2026

Then Gale says, “Katniss, we all knew you were lying about Coin sending you to assassinate Snow.”

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Fear is the dungeon of the mind, and superstition is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

The accident was wondrous strange: Did you neither know your assassinates, nor your deliverer?

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott

It assassinates the peace of families, it cuts away honor from the family name, it lets out the vital spark of life, and is followed by inconsolable death.

From Fifteen Years in Hell by Luther Benson

"Hatred of lawlessness and the sort of meanness that assassinates and quarrels," was the quiet and surprising response.

From The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck

Ladies and Gentlemen: Fear is the dungeon of the mind, and superstition is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. by Robert Green Ingersoll

Marx was largely unknown outside of Colorado’s evangelical community before Charlie Kirk was assassinated last September.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Over the past year-and-a-half, Muscovites have woken to news that army generals in Moscow have been assassinated, and drones have been targeting the capital.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

The ritual is a tribute to his country’s founding prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, who was assassinated in a Belgian-led plot in 1961.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Sarina Hosseiny said she had never heard of Qassem Soleimani, an Iranian general assassinated by the U.S. in 2020.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

On June 28, 1914, the day that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, the major European powers all had large standing armies.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

The ANC reflected on the pain caused by Hani's assassination and said the release was a reminder of "the bullet that pierced through our hearts, assassinating a father and comrade".

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024

Mr. Kara-Murza became known as a vocal critic of what he called a Kremlin policy of assassinating political enemies.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

A California review board on Wednesday denied parole to Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian refugee serving a life sentence for assassinating U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

From Reuters ● Mar. 2, 2023

One of the pieces of information revealed was a psychological evaluation of Lee Harvey Oswald, who was arrested for assassinating John F. Kennedy.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2022

Their mission was to strike a blow against Austria and the Hapsburg monarchy by assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman