Gunmen make grisly visit to Mexican bar
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Gunmen barged into a bar in central Mexico early Wednesday and tossed five human heads on the dance floor, Mexican media reported. A group of heavily armed men shot their guns in the air as they entered a bar in Uruapan in central Michoacan state at about 1:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. EDT)and ordered patrons to the ground before tossing the heads in plastic bags onto the center of the dance floor, according to reports.
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URUAPAN, Mexico  - A morgue worker wheels the   mutilated remains of a pregnant woman past two severed heads --   all victims of a Mexican drug war that has descended into   barbarity and is terrorizing once-quiet towns.
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Violent gangs with roots in U.S.  crime culture are spreading through Mexico, with some setting  up shop in the capital, the government said on Thursday.
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A rash of gangland-style killings in Cancun is being blamed on a battle between rival Cuban-American gangs over the lucrative trade in bringing Cubans into the U.S.
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Gang members at two prisons in El Salvador took some 100 visitors and prison staff hostage on Thursday, demanding direct negotiation with a top federal human rights ombudsman and an Archbishop, according to reports reaching in Mexico City from San Salvador
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With tourists streaming into town for Mardi Gras celebrations, a spasm of gun violence left two people dead and seven wounded &#151; more bad news for a city struggling to rebuild itself and its tourism industry.
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Gunmen stopped a pickup truck full of illegal immigrants, shot some and took the rest captive Thursday in an attack that left at least three people dead and two wounded, authorities said.
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Believing that Colombia's violence had ebbed, Giovanni Colmenares and his family moved from the United States back to Colombia last year, opened a bar in Bogota and were looking to buy an apartment. But then one day assailants hustled him into a car and put a gun to his head.
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Armed men dump five human heads in a crowded Mexican bar, in an apparent warning to a rival drug gang.
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Two gunmen, including at least one Iraqi,   chanting Islam's rallying cry of God is Greatest, fired at a   group of foreign tourists in the Jordanian capital Amman on   Monday, wounding five, a security source and a witness said.
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A deadly blast in Mexico City raises fears that Mexican drug cartels are adopting the tactics of their Colombian allies
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Suspected drug gangsters murdered eight people execution-style in and around the Caribbean beach town of Cancun this week as a wave of brutal killings hit Mexico.
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Gunmen attacked a hotel in Baghdad on Thursday, kidnapping a Turk who was staying there and killing six Iraqis, local witnesses said.
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Twenty-seven Americans have been abducted in Mexico's northern border region over the past six months and two have been killed, the State Department said Thursday.
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A group of Palestinians unleashed deadly bursts of gunfire as Mahmoud Abbas arrived at a service for Yasir Arafat.
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URUAPAN, Mexico  - An armed gang of suspected drug   traffickers wearing ski masks threw five human heads onto the   dance floor of a bar in western Mexico on Wednesday in an   apparent revenge killing, prosecutors said.
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ZIHUATANEJO, Mexico -- AndrÃÂ©s Sauzo collects newspapers, astoundingly grisly newspapers.