Top Gambian Newspaper Editor Shot Dead
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An attacker shot dead a prominent  Gambian newspaper editor, an outspoken advocate of press  freedom who had condemned new media restrictions, as he drove  home from work in the small West African country.
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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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Masked gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot dead a journalist in northwestern Pakistan, police 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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At least 10 supporters of Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric were shot dead in Najaf Thursday when gunmen opened fire at police who were trying to control the crowd, prompting the police to return fire, witnesses said.
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A high-ranking judge has killed along with his driver by gunmen in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, officials say.
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A Sudanese newspaper editor who was   kidnapped by unknown armed men was found beheaded on Wednesday,   a day after he was reported snatched from outside his home in   the capital Khartoum, an Interior Ministry source said.
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An unidentified gunman fatally shot the editor of a weekly newspaper in the southern Philippines, police said Monday, the latest in a string of killings of journalists.
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EL FASHER, Sudan, Sept. 6 -- A Sudanese newspaper editor who infuriated Muslim fundamentalists last year by printing an article that concerned questions about the parentage of the prophet Muhammad was found dead Wednesday in Khartoum, the capital.
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A senior official in Iraq's Communications Ministry was shot dead as he was driving to work in Baghdad on Thursday, a source at the ministry said.
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Unidentified gunmen killed a police official in this northern Iraqi city, provincial authorities said.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Gunmen shot and killed a  Baptist minister who was Haiti's most popular radio personality  on Monday, the radio station's owner said.
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HYDERABAD: Amjad Farooqi, the prime suspect in an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf and indicted in the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl was shot dead in a shootout with security forces in Nawabshah on Sunday.
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Two Pakistani journalists were killed and two others including an AFP reporter were injured when gunmen opened fire on their car in the turbulent tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.
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An Iraqi journalist was shot dead outside his home in a Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad on Sunday, neighbors and colleagues at his newspaper said.
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Somali gunmen shot dead a senior government official in a troubled Mogadishu district and a teenager died when munitions left behind by African Union peacekeepers exploded, officials said on Tuesday.
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The brother-in-law of the new chief judge in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein  is shot dead, police say.