Brazilian drug kingpin shot dead
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Brazilian police investigate the murder of a drug lord who achieved notoriety in a dramatic 1980s jail-break.
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A man walked onstage in a crowded nightclub during a rock concert Wednesday night and opened fire on the band, killing at least four people and wounding at least two others. The gunman then began firing into the crowd before he was shot to death by police, authorities said.
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Suspected Maoists shot dead a businessman in Nepal&#39;s capital on Monday as a rebel blockade of Kathmandu entered its sixth day.
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MEXICO CITY, May 23 -- A popular Haitian actor and radio talk show host was found shot to death Wednesday in Port-au-Prince, the second killing of a Haitian radio journalist in the past week.
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&quot;Dimebag Darrel&quot; Abbott, a founding member of the heavy metal group Pantera, was shot to death along with three others Wednesday night at a Columbus, Ohio metal show.
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Nine are shot dead in a Rio de Janeiro shantytown, as police battle drugs gangs and militia groups.
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At least 18 people are reported killed in fighting between police and gangsters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Suspected drug gunmen killed three senior policemen and some of their relatives in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, a week after the government beefed up security against drug gangs, police said on Tuesday.
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Another homeless person was found bludgeoned to death in South America's biggest city Sunday, the sixth such killing in Sao Paulo within the past several days, police said.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Mexican troops and police shot dead three suspected drug hitmen armed with grenades in a fierce gun battle in a town near the U.S. border on Monday.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas  - Former International Boxing  Federation (IBF) super flyweight champion Robert Quiroga was  killed early Monday, police said.
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A BULGARIAN mafia boss has been shot dead on a crowded street in the capital Sofia, the latest casualty in gangland score-settling that has left dozens dead.
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A suspect in the slaying of a top Venezuelan prosecutor last week was killed Tuesday in a shootout with police, an official said.
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BUENAVENTURA, Colombia  - Colombia's most infamous cocaine lords have been killed or jailed, violence has fallen sharply and drug seizures are at an all-time high.
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The former Prime Minister is killed by an assassin
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent trying to stop a suspected drug smuggler was struck and killed by the suspect's car in southern California on Saturday, border police said.
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Police killed at least 18 suspected drug traffickers in a massive operation Wednesday to serve arrest warrants and seize drugs and arms in a vast Rio de Janeiro shantytown, a state security official said.