Many pro-democracy activists fled China after the Tiananmen massacre, but they continue to support dissidents from abroad. With Beijing intensifying its crackdown on civil society, the movement faces new challenges.

Malian president vows to boost security as massacre toll rises.

Erdogan said the massacre in Christchurch was part of a broader attack on Turkey and Islam. He also warned anti-Muslim Australians that they would be sent back in coffins like their grandfathers at Gallipoli.

UN slams DR Congo's failure to prevent large-scale ethnic Banunu massacre in December

A federal appeals court on Friday threw out the murder conviction of an ex-Blackwater security guard and ordered three of his former colleagues to be re-sentenced in the high-profile prosecution stemming from the massacre of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians at a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007.

Iraq has hanged 36 people for their involvement in a massacre in Tikrit province two years ago. Up to 1,700 mostly Shia military recruits were killed on June 12, 2014.