assassination
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Oli has previously rejected the findings of the commission, which also recommended the arrest of former police chief Chandra Kuber Khapung, telling the Annapurna Post they were "character assassination and hate politics".
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader, issued a rare statement Wednesday addressing Larijani’s assassination.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
Davignon, who went on to become a vice president of the European Commission in the 1980s, was a novice diplomat at the time of the assassination.
From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026
For baby boomers, the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
Though John Surratt had been a conspirator in the kidnapping plot, he was not even in Washington on the evening of the assassination.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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