A shooting took place near the headquarters of Russia's FSB security agency in Moscow. Russian media have identified the gunman who shot dead at least one FSB officer as a 39-year-old former private security guard.

An attacker shot dead six people sitting in a waiting room at a hospital in the northeastern Czech city of Ostrava on Tuesday, the government said.

Eleven people have been wounded in a shooting in New Orleans' French Quarter, a popular tourist hub, US police say, adding that two of the victims were in a critical condition.

The suspect in the synagogue attack, Stephan B., has confessed to the shooting in the eastern German city of Halle. He cited anti-Semitic and right-wing extremist motives for the attack.

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At least 20 people have been killed and more than two dozen injured in a shooting at a shopping center in the city of El Paso, Texas. Police say they have arrested a male suspect in his 20s.

A shooting at a synagogue in Poway, California has left one woman dead and three others injured. A 19-year-old man has been detained and police are determining the legitimacy of an anti-Semitic letter he allegedly wrote.

Five people were shot dead, including the suspected gunman, in a Friday night attack at a Texas nursing home and the home of one of the people slain, city officials said.

A gunman opened fire on sheriff's deputies responding to a disturbance near Denver on Sunday, killing one of the officers before the suspect was fatally shot.

The mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas is vowing action to prevent gun violence after a "heart-breaking" shooting that wounded 25 people.

Senator Chuck Schumer offers his prayers for those injured in the shooting Wednesday at the baseball practice near Washington.

A suspect in Sunday's mosque shooting in Quebec City that left six people dead has called police "to talk about his surrender," according to a senior police official.