No motive for the shooting of the pro-Russian, anti-American leader was immediately apparent.
Slovakia 's Prime Minister Robert Fico speaks during a press conference Wednesday, May, 15, 2024, before being shot. The populist, pro- Russia n leader, 59, was hit in the stomach after four shots were fired outside the House of Culture in the town of Handlova, some 150 kilometers northeast of the capital where the leader was meeting with supporters, according to reports on TA3, a Slovakia n TV station.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg posted on the social media platform X that he was “shocked and appalled by the shooting.” Slovakia’s major opposition parties, Progressive Slovakia and Freedom and Solidarity, canceled a protest against a controversial government plan to overhaul public broadcasting that they say would give the government full control of public radio and television.Brown v. Board of Education was supposed to end school segregation 70 years ago. It hasn’t
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