Shots

South Korea fires warning shots, second incident in days (Reuters)

November 3rd, 2010

North Korean soldiers march during a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. This year's celebration comes less than two weeks after Kim Jong Il's re-election to the party's top post and the news that his 20-something son would succeed his father and grandfather as leader. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)Reuters - South Korea’s navy fired warning shots to drive away a North Korean fishing boat at a maritime border on Wednesday, the second incident in six days, jangling nerves…

South Korea fires warning shots, capital on alert (Reuters)

November 3rd, 2010

North Korean soldiers march during a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. This year's celebration comes less than two weeks after Kim Jong Il's re-election to the party's top post and the news that his 20-something son would succeed his father and grandfather as leader. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)Reuters - South Korea’s navy fired warning shots to drive away a North Korean fishing boat at a maritime border on Wednesday, the second incident in six days, jangling nerves…

South Korea fires shots to warn North fishing boat (Reuters)

November 3rd, 2010

Reuters - South Korea’s navy fired warning shots to drive away a North Korean fishing vessel that crossed their tense maritime border on Wednesday, the South’s military said.

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Shots fired at Korean border: South’s defense ministry (Reuters)

October 29th, 2010

Reuters - North Korea fired gunshots across its heavily armed border toward rival South Korea on Friday, a defense ministry official in Seoul said.

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Police surround hostage bus after firing shots (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

A hostage walks away from the bus after being released during the hostage taking at Quirino Grandstand in Manila August 23, 2010. Two foreign tourists have been released from the bus being held by a heavily armed former policeman in central Manila, officials said on Monday. Radio station DZMM radio station said 25 foreign tourists, including some children, and three Filipinos were on the bus when the heavily-armed man boarded it in downtown Manila. REUTERS/ Erik de Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)AP - Philippine police in hemlets and flak jackets have crouched beside the bus after firing shots at the tires in a bid to end a daylong hostage standoff involving…

Shots ring out near site of Christian-Muslim massacres (AP)

March 9th, 2010

A mother comforts her crying child in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010. More than 200 people, most of them Christians, were slaughtered on Sunday in central Nigeria, according to residents, aid groups and journalists. The local government gave a figure more than twice that amount, but offered no casualty list or other information to substantiate it. (AP Photos/Jon Gambrell)AP - Automatic weapons fire punctuated by screams erupted after dark Tuesday in a Nigerian city located near villages where massacres just two days ago left more than 200 people…