4 dolphins shot to death in Calif.
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Four dead dolphins have washed ashore with fatal bullet wounds and fifth with lacerations on its pectoral fin, said authorities who have offered a reward for information on the slayings.
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Five police officers and two employees of Peru's state-run coca company were shot to death in a southern jungle state on Saturday, authorities said.
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have left 169 whales and dolphins dead on Australian and New Zealand beaches in the past three days. By Tuesday, 96 long-finned pilot whales and bottle-nosed dolphins had died after the first beaching on Sunday at King Island, midway.
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Near 100 whales and dolphines have commited mysterious &quot;mass beaching suicide&quot; from last week on Australia&#39;s south coast.
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SYDNEY A series of mass strandings left 168 whales and dolphins dead on Australian and New Zealand beaches, leaving scientists and wildlife officials searching for the cause Tuesday.
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About 100 whales and dolphins died after beaching on a southern Australian island Sunday, and about 50 more were still at risk, a government official said.
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LIMA, Peru  - Four police officers died on Sunday  in a shootout with an armed group that took over a police  station in a southern Peruvian town on New Year's Day and held  10 hostages, doctors said.
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Authorities identified the second and third people to have died in the California fires early Thursday.
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Three children and their mother were found shot to death Thursday in a sport utility vehicle parked just off a highway, and the father was talking to police, authorities said.
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Four US Marines were killed in three separate incidents west of Baghdad, the US military said. The four were assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and were killed Friday while conducting security operations in Anbar province, the military said.
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Four U.S. Marines were killed in action  in Iraq on Friday in three attacks west of Baghdad, the  American military said on Saturday.
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More than 100 whales and dolphins have died in two separate beachings in islands off Tasmania in Australia. Ninety-seven pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins died off King Island over the weekend, and several others have died off Maria Island.
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A pod of dolphins circled protectively round a group of New Zealand swimmers to fend off an attack by a great white shark, media reported on Tuesday.
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More than 100 whales and dolphins die in two separate beachings in islands off Tasmania in Australia.
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A gunman opened fire on four Miami-Dade County police officers during a traffic stop Thursday, killing one and injuring the other three before fleeing and triggering a manhunt across South Florida.
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Every autumn and winter, hunters from this craggy Japanese fishing village corral thousands of dolphins into a tiny, isolated cove and kill them for meat and fertilizer, turning the water red with their blood.
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Carcasses of dead dolphins and pilot whales strewn on a beach on Australia&#39;s King Island, off Tasmania state on Sunday. A total of 80 whales and dolphins died after swimming onto a beach on the island where