American Nun Shot Dead in Brazil's Amazon
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By Leonardo Pedro BELEM, Brazil  - A 74-year-old American nun wasshot to death early on Saturday in Brazil's Amazon jungle,where she worked for decades to defend peasant farmers and therain forest from illegal loggers and ranchers.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - A business jet piloted by two United States citizens may have been at the wrong altitude when it crossed paths with a commercial airliner that crashed last week in the Amazon, killing all 155 people on board, Brazil's defense minister said on Wednesday.
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A woman was killed in a shooting in a   college in downtown Montreal, local police said on Wednesday.
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Sister Leonella Sgorbati, who was slain outside a hospital where she worked as a missionary in Somalia's restive capital, was remembered Thursday as a devoted nun who was willing to die to help the starving and sick in Africa.
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An American diplomat in Sudan was shot and killed as he was returning from a New Yearâs Eve party, officials said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Searchers have found about 50 bodies scattered around the Amazon site of Brazil's worst airplane crash and were keeping wild animals away from the corpses, air force officials said on Tuesday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Leftist guerrillas shot andkilled a Catholic parish priest in a jungle area of northwestColombia, church officials said on Friday.
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An American man was shot to death in a bar fight with a Brazilian policeman, police said Saturday.
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BRAZIL RIO DE JANEIRO -- A federal judge indicted two US pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers yesterday in Brazil's worst air disaster. A Boeing jet plunged into the Amazon rain forest in September after crashing in mid-air with an executive jet, killing 154. Pilots Joseph Lepore, 42, of Bay Shore, N.Y., and Jan Paladino, 34, of Westhampton Beach, ...
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A twin-engine plane crashed in the Amazon jungle Wednesday, killing all six people aboard, the Brazil's National Civil Aeronautics Board said.
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"The Greatest Gift" (Doubleday, 256 pages, $21.95), by Binka Le Breton: Dorothy Stang wasn't an average nun. She didn't wear a habit or retreat to a convent for pious prayer and contemplation. She rode a motorcycle over rutted dirt roads, enjoyed watching football games with a cold beer in her hand and lived for 40 years among some of Brazil's poorest people.
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Several people were shot and killed by a hostage taker who opened fire at an Amish school in Pennsylvania on Monday, police said, in the third fatal shooting at a U.S. school in a week.
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BELEM, Brazil  - Brazil mobilized some 2,000  troops in the Amazon rain forest on Wednesday to curb death  squads blamed for the deaths of an American nun, a union leader  and two workers in land battles in the last four days.
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Police say an angry mother-in-law was behind the slaying of a popular U.S. union leader who was shot in the back days before he was to meet with members of Central America's growing labor movement.
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Gunmen shoot dead an Italian nun at a hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses and doctors say.
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Gunmen shot and killed an Italian nun   at a children's hospital in Mogadishu on Sunday in an attack   that drew immediate speculation of links to Muslim anger over   the Pope's recent remarks on Islam.
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ANAPU, Brazil  - Thousands of Amazon peasants  flocked to the funeral of a U.S. nun on Tuesday and vented  anger that the Brazil's government has only acted to stem  rising violence in the rain forest after the murder of the  renowned foreign activist.