In Tunisia, the revolution, which since the ouster of Ben Ali had been progressing well, despite opposition from several Islamist groups, suffered significant regression following the brutal and cowardly assassination of Chokri Belaid, a secularist and staunch critic of the ruling Islamist-led government of Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali.
Jacobs also points out that perhaps there is a link between the area near this highway and tragedies that have happened in history, such as the bridge collapse on I-35 in Minneapolis last August and the assassination of JFK 44 years ago near I-35 in Dallas.
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And for more on the impact of the Bhutto assassination and how assassinations affect the long-term politics here in the U.S., we have Melissa Harris-Lacewell.
The press and the media were also criticised for turning Dallas police station into "bedlam" after the assassination and the police officers themselves were condemned for not following correct interviewing procedures when quizzing Oswald about the shooting.
Reagan survived the attempted assassination and went on to serve two terms as president.
Frances Seward, already frail, was undone by caring for her family and by the assassination of Lincoln.
Kennedy assassination and, a few months later, the arrival of the Beatles.
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The story is set in the Bronx, New York in 1964 just after the Kennedy assassination and on the cusp of the civil rights movement -- a time of social flux.
But he warned that insurgents were changing tactics to focus on high profile targets such as August's raid on the British Council offices in Kabul and the recent assassination of the country's former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, which he described as a "major setback".
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Others include four brothers from the prominent Ahmar family who were involved in a fierce war against Saleh's forces last May before the president was seriously wounded and burned in an assassination attempt at the presidential palace amid battles between government forces and tribal fighters.
Kennedy, in 1963, and continued with the assassination of his brother Robert, later the plane crash of young John Jr. and the loss of another brother, Ted.
Sonia Gandhi almost never gives interviews, although the few she has done on Indian television have been surprisingly open and direct, recounting the tragedy of her husband's assassination in 1991 and her own inclusive social ideals.
Moscow reacted by announcing another overhaul of security in the republic, and in June the following year, security forces announced the arrest of a leading militant linked to the assassination attempt, and several other attacks.
King founded in Atlanta as a memorial to her husband's work and dream after his assassination, was flying at half-staff.
Mr Gallagher has accused Sinn Fein of carrying out a "hatchet job" and a "political assassination" on the basis of the word of a convicted fuel smuggler.
Other important world stories saw the head of the Israeli secret service forced to resign after a bungled assassination attempt and the top bureaucrat in the French island of Corsica murdered by separatists.
The Delhi-born son of an Urdu-speaking family that migrated to Pakistan after the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947, Pervez Musharraf survived numerous assassination attempts and plots against him during his time in power.
Did then Sonia Gandhi spend all that time campaigning believing that she'd overcome the criticisms of her foreign roots and the fears of assassination, only for them to reemerge as India's highest political prize beckoned?
Sources familiar with the position of the Secret Service in the dispute tell CNN that Director Lewis Merletti told Starr and other independent counsel staffers, in a February briefing, that should his agents be denied the privilege, "we will lose a president of the United States to assassination" and that trust and confidence between the protective service and its protectees will be lost.
But the rebellion was eventually crushed, and Nigeria has subsequently weathered military coups, the assassination of a head of state and a 20-year economic decline.
Between 1979 and 1982 Nicholas was a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland, working on major stories such as the assassination of Earl Mountbatten and the IRA hunger strikes.
General Musharraf has been lucky to survive three assassination attempts, and his succession is unclear.
Mubarak was vice president under Sadat, and succeeded him after the assassination.
Others think he will probably stumble on, having weathered past crises, including backlash from Sept. 11, several assassination attempts, and South Asia's worst earthquake in living memory.
Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants were sentenced Sunday to death by hanging for their role in the deaths of 148 villagers from the town of Dujail, where torture and executions followed a failed assassination attempt on Saddam in 1982.
The other thing that happened yesterday was this -- is that there was a United Nations General Assembly resolution put forth, principally sponsored by the Saudis but joined in, I think, by about 40 other countries, Ben, if I'm not mistaken, and passed yesterday deploring the assassination plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.
Usoyan, 75, survived two previous assassination attempts in 1998 and 2010, when he was seriously injured.
He took power in 2001, after the assassination of Laurent Kabila and has since won two elections.
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