Drug Warlord Dies in Burma
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One-time drug warlord Khun Sa, variously described as among the world's most wanted men and as a great liberation fighter, has died, an associate and a Burma official said Tuesday. He was 74
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A top leader of Myanmar's rebel Karen National Union who was also a key figure in the democracy movement was assassinated Thursday at his home in Thailand, Thai police and political exiles said.
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - A leader of Myanmar's biggest rebel group was assassinated at his home in the Thai border town of Mae Sot on Thursday, his wife told Reuters.
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Following the sudden death of hip-hop star Olâ Dirty Bastard, the cause of his passing has been finally revealed. The New York Medical Examinerâs Office has reported that ODB died of an accidental drug overdose.
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A wanted Taliban insurgent leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Brother, was killed on Thursday in a U.S.-led raid in the southern province of Helmand, the Afghan Defence Ministry said.
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BEIJING, July 6 -- A former department head at China's drug regulation agency was sentenced to death Friday on charges of accepting bribes and neglecting official duties. Cao Wenzhuang, a department director at the State Food and Drug Administration, was given the death sentence with a two-year...
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Reports say Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's successor as al-Qaeda in Iraq leader has been killed.
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Gunmen ambushed and killed a police chief in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon Tuesday in the latest slaying of a law officer in a region ravaged by a war between drug gangs.
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A police chief and a councilman were shot and killed Thursday in a Mexican border state where drug-fueled violence has increased and a string of law enforcement officers have been killed.
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India&#39;s most wanted bandit has been killed by police in a gun battle while on his way to get treatment for an eye problem, ending a two-decade hunt for a
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan government has fired the governor of its biggest drug-producing province, a center of Taliban resistance that has seen some of the country's heaviest fighting this year, officials said yesterday.
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Suspected drug gangsters kill nine people, including policemen, near the Mexican resort of Cancun, police say.
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A former Sierra Leonean militia leader,  whose fighters were accused of human sacrifice and cannibalism  during a civil war, has died weeks before the verdict was due  in his war crimes trial.
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Nine people are killed in Burma during a violent crackdown on protests against the junta, state media says.
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The leader of Senegal's powerful Mouride Muslim brotherhood has died, followers said on Saturday, throwing into mourning a movement that holds huge influence and whose trade networks span the globe.
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A former Sierra Leonean militia leader, whose fighters were accused of human sacrifice and cannibalism during the country's civil war, died on Thursday weeks before a verdict was due in his trial for war crimes.
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Former Cambodian Khmer Rouge commander Sam Bith, who was serving a life sentence over the kidnapping and murder of three Western backpackers in 1994, has died aged 74, his wife said Saturday.