On the Foreign Scene*
World leaders are reacting to the shocking shooting at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. The former US president was injured and rushed off the stage after what sounded like gunshots rang out.
According to report, one bystander was killed and two others critically wounded.
Condemning the attack, President Bola Tinubu said that the attack on former President Donald Trump is distasteful and goes beyond the pale of democratic norms.
European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell condemned the attack, while British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called for an end to political violence. In South America, Argentina’s President Javier Milei and Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned the violence.
Leaders from Asia, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, also expressed their concerns. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara said they were shocked by the attack and prayed for Trump’s speedy recovery.
