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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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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NAIROBI, Dec. 31 -- The death toll from violent protests rose dramatically Monday in this East African country as police clamped down on ethnically charged riots fueled by allegations of vote-rigging in the presidential election.
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Gunmen killed an opposition lawmaker in Nairobi and government helicopters fired on crowds in the Rift Valley on Tuesday, the latest flare-up of the ethnic fighting that has gripped Kenya
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NAIVASHA, Kenya  - Protests erupted in west Kenya and machete-wielding mobs faced off in the Rift Valley on Monday after dozens died in ethnic violence that complicated mediation efforts by former U.N. boss Kofi Annan.
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ONGATA RONGAI, Kenya  - A convoy of shiny, 4 x 4 vehicles roars into the pot-holed main street of a small town, kicking up dust and scattering people in their way.
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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 in which more than 70 people have been killed.
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Dozens of people seeking refuge in a church in Kenya were burned to death by a mob in an escalation of ethnic violence that is threatening to plunge the country into chaos.
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UN helicopters fire on troops loyal to a dissident general near the eastern DR Congo city of Goma.
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Mobs in Kenya's opposition heartland beat up and killed at least three policemen accused of taking part in a plan to rig Thursday's elections in favor of President Mwai Kibaki, security sources said on Wednesday.
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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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Thousands of machete-wielding youths hunted down members of President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe Monday in western Kenya's Rift Valley, torching homes and buses, clashing with police, and blocking roads with burning tires
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Severed heads displayed on poles, savagely mutilated bodies and dozens of deaths have sparked alarm in Kenya as a secret criminal society goes on the rampage and police launch bloody retaliation.
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A mob torched a Kenyan church on Tuesday, killing villagers cowering inside, as the death toll from ethnic riots triggered by President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election soared to nearly 200.
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The mystery of the Mungiki, a secret society that is part Sicilian Mafia, part Chicago street gang, is sweeping across Kenya and taking a lot of lives with it.
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NAIROBI, Jan. 1 -- A mob of men wielding sticks, spears and machetes set ablaze a church where villagers had sought refuge from Kenya's post-election violence, burning to death at least 35 people, including women and children, according to aid workers and a priest.
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Protests erupted in west Kenya and machete-wielding mobs faced off in the Rift Valley on Monday after dozens died in ethnic violence that complicated mediation efforts by former U.N. boss Kofi Annan.