Angolan actors 'killed by police'
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Angolan police shoot dead two actors after mistaking them for armed robbers, a film director says.
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Two California soldiers shot to death in Iraq were murdered by Iraqi civil-defense officers patrolling with them, military investigators have found.
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The decapitated bodies of two police officers were found in a seaside slum as violence erupted again in the Haitian capital. They and another policeman were killed on Friday in a clash with protesters demanding
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A Macedonian policeman was killed and  two were injured when their patrol car was ambushed by armed  men in a volatile region near the border with the breakaway  Serbian province of Kosovo, officials said on Wednesday.
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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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HARARE -- Police killed a protester and arrested the leader of the main opposition party as they broke up a prayer meeting protesting government policies yesterday. Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena said one man was fatally shot when 200 opposition party members attacked about 20 policemen. Three policemen were hospitalized with injuries, Bvudzijena told state television. Police said they arrested Morgan ...
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LOME, Togo  - Togo's security forces shot and  killed a demonstrator on Monday in the capital's opposition  stronghold, where edgy youths manned barricades after deadly  weekend protests against the army's naming of a new ruler.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Three Colombian police   officers were killed when their helicopter crashed as it   escorted airplanes fumigating fields of illegal coca leaves   used to make cocaine, authorities said on Friday.
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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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The most prominent armed group in oil-rich southern Nigeria said said one of its presumed leaders, extradited last week from Angola, reportedly died from gunshot wounds Tuesday in a Nigerian military hospital.
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Gunmen kidnap a Filipino oil worker and kill his police escort in Nigeria's main oil region, police say.
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Gunmen have shot and killed South African reggae star Lucky Dube in front of his son and daughter in one of the highest-profile murders in the country, police said on Friday.
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Top police official, who dealt with terrorist bombings, is among the dead.
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A Dutch film director, who was making a controversial film, was killed in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam Tuesday morning. Theo van Gogh was killed after being stabbed and shot, Radio Netherlands reported.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico  - Three police officers and a  youth were shot to death in the Mexican resort of Acapulco on  Saturday in violence authorities said could be linked to  Sunday's local elections.
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BISSAU : Heavily-armed Guinea Bissau troops took to the streets of the capital of the former Portuguese colony, killing two officers, in a protest to demand payment for their tours of duty as UN peacekeepers.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - The acting police chief in the  northern Iraqi town of Samarra was killed Sunday, a police  official said.