Helicopters swoop on Kenyan mob
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NAIVASHA, Kenya  - Kenyan military helicopters swooped to break up machete-wielding mobs on Tuesday as the killing of an opposition legislator stoked bloody protests across the east African country.
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Gangs of young men armed with machetes are roaming the streets in Kenya as post-election violence threatens to engulf the country. Horrific attacks are being reported, including the torching of a church where people who had sought refuge were burned alive.
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An Indian helicopter dropping aid over the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands is attacked by tribesmen.
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Police fired tear gas Tuesday to disperse dozens of supporters of President Mwai Kibaki, hours before former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was due in Kenya to mediate the deadly dispute over Kibaki's re-election
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NAKURU, Kenya  - Kenyan police battled on Saturday to stop clashes between tribal gangs wielding machetes, spears and bows and arrows that have killed at least 27 people in the western town of Nakuru in three days of bloodshed.
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The Christian Science Monitor - As two hulking white UN helicopters recently descended on this small remote town in eastern Congo's Ituri Province, hundreds of schoolchildren fled their classrooms to catch a glimpse of the spectacle.
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Kenyan riot police patrolled the capital on Saturday and rival tribes faced off in a southwest town, after 23 people were killed in three days of protests called by the opposition over a disputed election.
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Hundreds of people from rival tribes confronted one another on a main road in this western Kenyan town Monday, wielding machetes and clubs and retreating only when a handful of police between them fired live bullets into the air
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Police helicopters circled overhead, sharpshooters were stationed on nearby roofs and officers were armed for a siege after a report that a woman might have been beaten at a Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.
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MUTONGO, Congo AP) &#151; Swooping over the lush, volcanic hills of east Congo, a helicopter patrol by U.N. observers on Saturday revealed emptied villages &#151; one spotted a day earlier was half-burned &#151; but little sign of who was responsible.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Helicopters rescued more than 40 aid workers who fled into the bush to escape fighting in Darfur yesterday as renewed violence flared in the crisis-plagued region of western Sudan.
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KISUMU, Kenya  - Kenyan police fired in the air and used tear gas as hundreds of opposition protesters took to the streets on Wednesday in defiance of a ban on rallies against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
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eastern town of Goma before the 11,000-strong UN force in Congo sent up a helicopter to have a look. &quot;We flew over the area and the situation was calm.
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Helicopter gunships hover above mosque amid signs that standoff is coming to an end.
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Kenyan police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday after disputed elections returned President Mwai Kibaki to power and triggered turmoil believed to have killed more than 100 people.
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A French military helicopter swept in to pluck trapped civilians from a hotel in Abidjan on Sunday as mobs burned and looted buildings across Cote d'Ivoire's largest city.
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Two helicopters sent by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez landed in Colombia Friday on a delicate mission to pluck three hostages from the rebel-held jungle.