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Two candidates in Sunday's regional polls in Colombia are shot dead, bringing the number killed to at least 21.
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Suspected Marxist rebels gunned down a state attorney in southern Colombia who had been prosecuting captured guerrilla commanders, police said Saturday.
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Two candidates from Nobel Laureate and presidential hopeful Rigoberta Menchu's political party were shot dead Wednesday amid a wave of campaign-related violence that has claimed about 50 lives.
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Insurgents dragged three employees of Iraq&#39;s Electoral Commission from a car in Baghdad on Sunday and shot them dead, the latest in a series of attacks designed to disrupt efforts to hold the Jan. 30 election.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Between 21 and 35 right-wing  paramilitaries were killed in combat with the Colombian army,  and Marxist rebels killed the mayor of a small town,  authorities said Saturday.
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At least 23 people were killed on Thursday when a bus was strafed by machine gun fire, in what police suspect is a message from local gangs to an aspiring crime-busting presidential candidate.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Oct. 6, 2004 - Campaigning for Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election ended with a burst of violence Wednesday as attackers set off a bomb in a failed effort to kill interim
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A far-right Colombian warlord participating in peace talks with the government was shot dead by his own men, police said on Monday, in another bloody incident that could undermine the negotiations.
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Ten soldiers were killed in a clash with leftist rebels in western Colombia, the army reported. Five more were missing.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Marxist rebels killed 17  Colombian soldiers in a battle in the jungles of northern  Colombia on Wednesday in the deadliest attack on the armed  forces in years, the army said.
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The Colombian defence minister announces the killing of one of the leaders of the left-wing Farc guerrilla group.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Leftist guerrillas shot and  killed a Catholic parish priest in a jungle area of northwest  Colombia, church officials said on Friday.
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people and stoking fears that sectarian divisions over when to hold elections could unleash further bloodshed. In a second dawn attack in the capital on Friday, guerrillas killed at
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Rebels killed a mayor and a former town council member after abducting 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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Two Colombian marines and at least one civilian were killed when guerrillas bombed a military patrol in the country's main Pacific port city less than two days before elections, authorities said on Saturday.
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Two presidents were killed by bombs just before or after their inaugurations. One prime minister was blown up in a helicopter; another was killed four months after leaving office in a suicide truck bombing. At least 35 Lebanese politicians, clerics and journalists have been struck down by assassins in Lebanon's 63 years of independence.
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Ten people were killed during parliamentary elections that could result in protracted post-election skirmishing.