Brazilian Town Attempts to Lynch Man
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A Brazilian judge clamped a curfew on a small Amazon River town Saturday after residents tried to lynch a man who confessed he killed two girls.
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Marxist rebels tried to organize an assassination attempt against President Bush during his visit to the port city of Cartagea last week, a top Colombian official said yesterday.
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Turkish security forces clashed Monday with an angry crowd trying to lynch a man accused of raping several girls and killing two of them in southeastern Turkey, local media reported. One person was killed in the violence, and at least 22 were injured.
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Open fire on flying Saint Nick A Brazilian Santa en route to a kids' party in a Rio de Janeiro favela (slum) was forced to seek an alternative means of transport after drug traffickers opened fire on his helicopter, the Telegraph reports.â¦
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Brazil&#39;s ruling Workers&#39; Party (PT) held onto the mayoralty in at least three major cities in Sunday&#39;s municipal vote but will face a tough run
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A mob in Peru forced a farmer to lynch his own son, a teenager accused of killing and robbing, in a brutal example of vigilante justice.
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A growing number of Brazil's urban poor are seeing Pentecostalism as a way to rise above the scourge of gang violence.
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One person suggested that City Councilman Tom Rawles be taken out back and beaten. Another said someone should put a bullet in his head, and a third that he should be buried in the cement his construction company uses.
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Latino groups in a US town mount a legal challenge to the local authorities' power to tackle illegal immigration.
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One San Diego community wrestles with the pending release of a violent offender.
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The family of a BBC man who was stabbed to death in a 'random attack' are to make an appeal to catch his killer.
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Brazil police have formally accused a brother of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of influence peddling after a nationwide crackdown on illegal gambling, the government news agency said Tuesday.
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By Andrew Hay BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazilian police searchedAmazon jungle on Sunday for suspected killers of a 74-year-oldAmerican nun gunned down after defending peasant farmers inconflicts with loggers and ranchers.
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The man serving a life sentence for the murders of a mother and her daughter is to begin his second bid at the Court of Appeal to overturn his conviction.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - A Brazilian presidential   candidate's campaign rally bumped into a harsh reality on   Wednesday in the form of armed gang members in a Rio de Janeiro   slum who ordered them to take a detour.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - One vagrant died and three  were badly beaten in overnight attacks in Brazil's biggest city  of Sao Paulo, raising the number of victims of a suspected  death squad to 14 in four days.
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An accused Equatorial Guinea coup ringleader who is facing a possible death penalty sought today to clear his imprisoned co-defendants in the alleged plot to overthrow the oil-flush African regime.