Gunman Kills Himself After Deadly Shooting

A gunman who shot dead one person and injured two others is believed to have killed himself after a six-hour stand-off with police in Australia.

Three people who had been hiding inside the building on the outskirts of Sydney managed to escape unhurt after officers entered the premises.

During their search the police found one man dead. The 33-year-old is thought to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Heavily armed police had surrounded the premises

Heavily armed officers surrounded the premises in an industrial area of Ingleburn, a suburb 25 miles southwest of Sydney, after reports of gunfire at the sign-making business on Monday morning.

A 43-year-old victim died at the scene while the two wounded men were taken to hospital, where one underwent surgery.

Workers at nearby businesses were told to stay inside and roads were blocked off in the area.

he end of the armed siege, Detective Inspector Mark Brett, of New South Wales Police, said: "The matter has been resolved.

"Shortly after 5pm today specialist police entered the unit where they located three persons hiding in that unit.

"A further search of the unit located a male deceased.

"It's believed the person died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound."

The case has now been handed over to the murder squad.

Deadly suicide attack in Pakistan

At least eight people were killed and 18 wounded in a suicide attack on Monday in the northwest region of Pakistan.

The bomber blew himself outside a district court in the Shabqadar market area of Charsadda district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, police said.

According to hospital officials, women and a child were among the dead.

"We've received seven bodies, including two women and a female child," Asfandyar Khan, a hospital worker, told Al Jazeera.

A police inspector said 18 people were also wounded in the explosion.

Inspector Ali Jan Khan from the Shabqadar police station said the attacker was attempting to enter the court.

"The suicide bomber was interrupted by two security personnels, which prompted him to blow himself outside the court," he told Al Jazeera.

Medical teams were dispatched to the scene, but the death toll is expected to rise, he said.

In January, Bacha Khan University - also in Charsadda - came under attack by the Pakistani Taliban, killing 21 students and teachers.

The Most Heated Moment at the Democratic Debate

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders got testy with front-runner Hillary Clinton at Thursday’s Democratic debate during an exchange trade policies and the 2009 auto industry bailout when Clinton attempted to interrupt him.

“Excuse me, I’m talking,” he fired back at Clinton, in a moment that was the second-most discussed on Twitter of the debate.

As the presidential primary has gone on, debates between Sanders and Clinton have gotten increasingly prickly, with the Vermont Senator often casting side-eye or waving his hands at her remarks—moments that some Clinton supporters saw as derogatory or even sexist, while others thought just showed poor manners.

This response wasn’t the only time during the night when Sanders raised his voice to Clinton after an interruption—he shouted “Can I finish, please?” during a later exchange between the two on gun control.

The Most Heated Moment at the Democratic Debate

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders got testy with front-runner Hillary Clinton at Thursday’s Democratic debate during an exchange trade policies and the 2009 auto industry bailout when Clinton attempted to interrupt him.

“Excuse me, I’m talking,” he fired back at Clinton, in a moment that was the second-most discussed on Twitter of the debate.

As the presidential primary has gone on, debates between Sanders and Clinton have gotten increasingly prickly, with the Vermont Senator often casting side-eye or waving his hands at her remarks—moments that some Clinton supporters saw as derogatory or even sexist, while others thought just showed poor manners.

This response wasn’t the only time during the night when Sanders raised his voice to Clinton after an interruption—he shouted “Can I finish, please?” during a later exchange between the two on gun control.

North Korea Has Threatened Nuclear Strikes on the U.S. and South Korea, Again

(SEOUL) — North Korea is yet again threatening nuclear strikes on the United States and South Korea, this time in reaction to the start of huge U.S.-South Korean military drills.

Belligerent threats have been a staple of young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. But they spike especially when Washington and Seoul stage what they say are annual defensive springtime war games. Pyongyang says the drills, which start Monday and run through the end of April, are invasion rehearsals.

Always ragged relations between North Korea and its rivals Seoul and Washington have worsened following North Korea’s nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket test last month.

The United Nations has slapped the North with harsh sanctions, and South Korea has taken a harder than usual line on the North.

Gunman Kills Himself After Deadly Shooting

A gunman who shot dead one person and injured two others is believed to have killed himself after a six-hour stand-off with police in Australia.

Three people who had been hiding inside the building on the outskirts of Sydney managed to escape unhurt after officers entered the premises.

During their search the police found one man dead, who is thought to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Heavily armed police have surrounded the premises

Heavily armed officers surrounded the premises in an industrial area of Ingleburn, a suburb 25 miles southwest of Sydney, after reports of gunfire at the sign-making business on Monday morning.

A 43-year-old victim died at the scene while the two men wounded were taken to hospital.

Workers at nearby businesses were told to stay inside and roads were blocked off in the area.

Announcing the end of the armed siege Detective Inspector Mark Brett of New South Wales Police said: "The matter has been resolved.

"Shortly after 5pm today specialist police entered the unit where they located three persons hiding in that unit.

"A further search of the unit located a male deceased.

"It's believed the person died from a self inflicted gunshot wound."

North Korea threatens 'nuclear strike'

North Korea has pledged a "sacred war of justice for reunification" including a nuclear strike against the United States, saying joint military exercises by Seoul and Washington were being carried out to prepare for an invasion.

South Korean and United States troops began large-scale military exercises on Monday in an annual test of their defences against North Korea, which called the drills "nuclear war moves" and threatened to respond with an "all-out offensive".

South Korea said the exercises would be the largest ever following North Korea's fourth nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch last month that triggered a United Nations Security Council resolution and tough new sanctions.

Isolated North Korea has rejected criticism of is nuclear and rocket programmes, even from old ally China, and last week leader Kim Jong-un ordered his country to be ready to use nuclear weapons in the face of what he sees as growing threats from enemies.

The joint US and South Korean military command said it had notified North Korea of "the non-provocative nature of this training" involving about 17,000 American troops and more than 300,000 South Koreans.

South Korea's defence ministry said it had seen no sign of any unusual military activity by the North.

Still, it issued a statement on Monday warning the North that it "should immediately stop its reckless behaviour that would drive them to their own destruction".

"If North Korea ignores our warning and conduct provocations, our military will relentlessly respond and we warn that North Korea will be held fully responsible for any situation leading to North Korea's reckless provocation," the statement said.

North Korea's National Defence Commission said the North Korean army and people would "realise the greatest desire of the Korean nation through a sacred war of justice for reunification", in response to any attack by US and South Korean forces.

Its response would include nuclear weapons and their use against the United States, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a statement on Monday.

"We have a military operation plan of our style to liberate South Korea and strike the US mainland," the KCNA report said, also adding a "powerful nuclear strike means targeting the US imperialist aggressor forces bases in the Asia-Pacific region".

The North, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), as it is officially known, routinely issues threats of military action in response to the annual exercises that it sees as preparation for war against it.

The threat on Monday was in line with the usual rhetoric it uses to denounce the drills.

The latest UN sanctions imposed on North Korea were drafted by the US and China as punishment for its nuclear test and satellite launch, which the US and others say was really a test of ballistic missile technology.

South Korea and the US militaries began talks on Friday on the deployment of an advanced anti-missile Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system in South Korea.