Guinea-Bissau Top General Killed in Unrest
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The head of the armed forces and the army spokesman in Guinea-Bissau have been killed during an army mutiny. The soldiers were apparently revolting over unpaid wages for peacekeeping duties in Liberia.
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Violent protests swept Guinea on Monday, killing at least nine people and disrupting the crucial bauxite mining sector as unions resumed a general strike against President Lansana Conte's government.
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The leader of Senegal's richest and most powerful Islamic brotherhood dies in the city of Toube, aged 92.
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Mutinous soldiers demanding pay for peacekeeping duty abroad killed the commander of Guinea-Bissau&#39;s armed forces on Wednesday and seized key buildings in the capital of the former Portuguese colony.
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The cleric leading resistance at a mosque stormed by Pakistani troops has been killed, officials say.
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Indonesia's former president Suharto, who ruled with an iron fist for 32 years, died on Sunday, a senior police official told reporters at the hospital where he was being treated.
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Violence cast a shadow over Rio's famed Carnival early Wednersay when gunmen killed a leader of one of the premiere samba band groups, police said.
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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta on Monday said it was police personnel who shot dead two activists during campaign rallies for a new party headed by former East Timor president Xanana Gusmao.
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CONAKRY -- President Lansana Conte declared a state of emergency in Guinea yesterday, saying he had ordered the army to "take all necessary measures" to restore order after three days of violent protests. At least 27 people have been killed. Amid the rioting and clashes with security forces, the West African country's major trade unions called for Conte to step ...
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A military leader of the radical Palestinian group Hamas who was at the top of Israelâs most wanted list, has been killed in an air strike on Gaza City.
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Soldiers recently back from a U.N. peacekeeping mission and angry over unpaid wages staged a revolt in this tiny, impoverished West African nation Wednesday, killing the armed forces chief of staff and another senior officer, officials said.
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A former Congolese rebel leader, Floribert Chui Bin Kositi, was beaten to death in the country&#39;s restive eastern Kivu region, the UN-backed Okapi radio station said Monday.
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A leader of a top samba troupe was shot dead in Rio de Janeiro just days before its famed Carnival celebrations and heavily armed police occupied a slum on Wednesday after clashes with drug traffickers killed six people.
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A top leader of Colombia&#39;s right-wing paramilitaries has been assassinated, throwing into further doubt the ongoing peace process with the government.
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Violent unrest in Guinea spread to a military headquarters housing an elite army unit as another day of clashes in the west African nation claimed a further 11 lives.
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A top Palestinian militant leader dies after being shot in the head by Israeli troops last week, Palestinians say.
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Pakistani security forces killed a top figure in the Taliban militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.