Rio police crisis before carnival
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Top police officers in Rio de Janeiro resign, only days before the Brazilian city's famous carnival.
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One of the world's biggest carnival celebrations opens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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China has sent a contingent of riot police to Haiti to assist United Nations peacekeepers in the troubled Caribbean nation. Authorities in Beijing say the force of 95 police, which includes 13 women officers, left the Chinese capital for Haiti Sunday.
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A leader of a top samba troupe was shot dead in Rio de Janeiro just days before its famed Carnival celebrations and heavily armed police occupied a slum on Wednesday after clashes with drug traffickers killed six people.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - More than 10 people werekilled in a nearly four-hour-long gunbattle between two druggangs in Rio de Janeiro early on Monday, Brazilian media said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Police armed with rifles  and wearing flak jackets manned checkpoints across Rio de  Janeiro on Thursday to prevent muggings and other violence as  tourists flocked to the ocean city for the holiday season.
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Al Gore's global crusade against climate change appears to have fallen victim to Rio's drug gangs after a judge cancelled the event, ruling that police were too busy to provide security at the show.
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As Brazilians get ready for their  annual Carnival celebrations, the government is urging them to  practice safe sex and avoid drinking too much.
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On August 20, a riot was narrowly averted at a protest in Montebello, Quebec, when an alert and observant protester noticed that three masked men seemed out of place among the crowd - one of them carried a fist-sized rock and refused to put it down when repeatedly asked.  The men refused to unmask or identify themselves.  Eventually, the three masked men rushed the police line and were seemingly arrested.  Allegations immediately surfaced that the men were undercover police officers.  These allegations were later confirmed, as the Quebec police admitted that the three masked men were, in fact, police officers.
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Rio de Janeiro state police arrested 52 of their own members on Monday on charges they took money from drug gangs to help crime bosses avoid capture.
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In the first major public demonstration since the start of the Olympics, thousands of protesters clashed with police who stopped them from marching
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This year's staging of annual race from Lisbon to Dakar called off due to security fears in Mauritania
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A wave of assaults on tourists in this seaside resort city has authorities scrambling to contain the violence as they prepare for the annual high travel summer season.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Thieves armed with automatic rifles and military-issue grenades robbed a busload of British tourists in Rio de Janeiro before dawn on Sunday, the latest incident in a wave of violent crime plaguing Brazil's seaside tourist mecca.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Brazilian authorities  sought ways to make Rio de Janiero tourist spots safer on  Tuesday amid sharp criticism of police after 24 muggings over a  holiday weekend.
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Violence cast a shadow over Rio's famed Carnival early Wednersay when gunmen killed a leader of one of the premiere samba band groups, police said.
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Police clashed Thursday with students, environmentalists and left-leaning Brazilians protesting a visit by President Bush and his push for an ethanol energy alliance with Latin America's largest nation.