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Tajikistan Blames Banned Islamist Party for Attack That Killed Two Americans
'We'll Fix This': Some Americans Celebrated Canada Day By Apologizing For Trump
Trump: 'Journalists, like all Americans, should be free from the fear of being violently attacked'
Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of separating families at border, but most Republicans support it
Americans own 40 percent of world's firearms: study
Americans make up only four percent of the global population but they own 40 percent of the world’s firearms, a new study said Monday. There are more than one billion firearms in the world but 85 percent of those are in the hands of civilians, with the remainder held by law enforcement and the military, according to the Small Arms Survey. The survey, produced by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, says it bases its estimates based on multiple sources, including civilian firearms registration data from 133 countries and territories and survey results in 56 countries.
Americans own nearly half world's guns in civilian hands: survey
Americans make up 4 percent of the world’s population but owned about 46 percent of the estimated 857 million weapons in civilian hands at the end of 2017, a survey showed on Monday. The Small Arms Survey, an independent global research project based in Geneva, Switzerland, found that there were more than 1 billion firearms in the world, of which civilians owned 85 percent, while the rest were held by militaries or law enforcement agencies. The number of guns owned by civilians globally rose to 857 million in 2017 from 650 million in 2006, the survey said.
Korean Americans Respond To 'Surreal' Trump-Kim Summit
John McCain Tells Allies: Americans Stand With You Even If Trump Doesn't
Six Americans injured in Honduras plane crash
At least six Americans were injured Tuesday when a plane crashed while landing at the Honduran capital’s international airport and split in two. The commercial jet from Austin, Texas left the runway and veered into a ditch, Carlos Cordero, deputy head of Honduras’s disaster relief agency Copeco told local media. Firefighters arrived at Toncontin airport in Tegucigalpa and used foam to extinguish flames coming from the wreckage.
3 Americans Jailed In N. Korea Are Home. But Trump May Have Made Others' Situation Worse.
