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MEXICO CITY - Mexican police raided a town to search for members of an angry mob who lynched two officers a day earlier, but said they had been powerless to prevent the attack.
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Gunmen attacked a police station in the  western Iraqi town of Haditha on Sunday, took 21 policemen  hostage and later shot them dead, police said.
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At least 22 officers have been killed in attacks on police targets in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbar.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - More than a dozen people were killed and more than 30 wounded in Afghanistan on Monday when police opened fire to break up a violent protest against a provincial governor, witnesses and a doctor said.
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BAGHDAD -- Insurgents attacked police yesterday in a region that has become one of Iraq's most dangerous, setting off an intense battle that lasted nearly two hours and left at least six policemen dead and 20 wounded, the US military said.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region's top police officer reportedly resigned in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left more than 380 people dead - nearly half of them children.
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Hundreds of police and federal agents raided a Mexico City suburb on Wednesday night after two officers were killed by an angry crowd.
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Police by the thousands patrolled this central Chinese town Monday and residents remained indoors after deadly street fights. On Monday, minivans with loudspeakers drove
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Police crack down on opposition protests after president declares himself victorious in disputed poll
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Three Iraqi policemen have been killed during major operations against insurgents south of Baghdad, an interior ministry spokesman says.
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Rebels killed a mayor and a former town council member after seizing them at a roadblock in eastern Colombia as they headed to a meeting on how to confront violence in the area, authorities said Saturday.
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Armed police have killed a man following an incident in the market town of Sevenoaks, police said Monday.
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Taliban militants attacked a police checkpoint in the south and killed 16 officers, officials said Monday. Seven Afghan police and soldiers were reported dead elsewhere as Afghanistan's bloodiest year since the Taliban's ouster drew to a close.
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Iraqi police killed three insurgents on Thursday during a gunbattle in a northwestern Baghdad neighborhood that was a flashpoint of violence earlier this week, a city police officer said.
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Gunmen in two cars opened fire Tuesday on a van carrying policemen home from work, killing 11 officers and a civilian, police and hospital officials said.
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A massive manhunt is under way after four Miami-Dade County, Florida, police officers were shot today, a police spokeswoman said. One of the officers later died, Miami Mayor Carlos Alvarez said.
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Police shot to death an armed man holding five hostages in a small-town post office west of Paris after a robbery attempt, and the captives were freed unharmed after a three-hour ordeal, the interior minister said.