Leading Gambian editor shot dead
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One of The Gambia's leading journalists who was critical of a tough new press law is killed by gunmen.
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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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The manager of a radio station critical of both the Somali government and the Islamic militants who have been trying to topple it was killed outside his home in the Somali capital, the eighth journalist slain in the country this year.
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A newly elected opposition lawmaker was shot and killed outside a popular Guatemalan tourist resort on Friday, the latest politician to be gunned down in an election year marred by violence.
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A number of people are killed after shooting at an anti-French rally in Ivory Coast's commercial capital.
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An Al-Jazeera editor who spoke to The Associated Press by telephone from Doha said the tape, which the network received in Qatar, showed the two men being killed.
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A Russian journalist known for her critical coverage of the war in Chechnya was shot to death Saturday in the capital, police said.
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Two gunmen riding motorcycles shot dead a radio journalist in the southern Philippines on Monday, the fifth reporter to be killed this year in the country.
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Journalists in Gambia hold a demonstration over the murder of a veteran journalist who was shot dead last week.
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Lebanon's Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel was shot dead by apparent assassins Tuesday in Beirut, senior Lebanese government officials said.
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Controversial Dutch film maker and newspaper columnist Theo van Gogh, who made a film about violence against women in Islamic societies, was shot dead in Amsterdam, Dutch news agency ANP reported.
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An Iraqi police colonel was gunned down near his home in Afak on Sunday, marking the third government official killed in the Iraqi Shiite town in five weeks, an Interior Ministry official said.
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Indian security forces last night shot dead the country&#39;s most wanted bandit, the brutal leader of an ivory smuggling gang they had been chasing for decades.
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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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A senior journalist was killed in northern Sherpur town of Bogra district early Sunday by unknown assailants. Dipamkar Chakraborty, the executive editor of a newspaper The Durjoy
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A Kenyan marathon runner was fatally shot with an arrow, the second international athlete to die as Kenya struggles with an explosion of postelection chaos, a sports official and fellow athlete said Tuesday.
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Angry garment workers set fire to seven textile factories in and around the capital Tuesday after news that an employee shot in the back during recent protests over better pay and working conditions had died, officials and witnesses said.