PLO power fight erupts as two die in gun battle
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Fears that the struggle to find a new Palestinian leader could bring bloodshed and instability were confirmed last night when the PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas was caught in a gun battle during a visit to Gaza.
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In Indian-administered Kashmir, a gun battle broke out just hours before the arrival of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today (Wednesday), for the start of a partial troop withdrawal.
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One version of the story said the gunfire was an assassination attempt aimed at interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Another dismissed it as a misunderstanding that erupted in gunfire simply because there were too many weapons around.
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Gunmen opened fire on a Haitian hospital with a top French official inside Monday, sparking a battle that left at least one gunman dead and two people wounded, officials said.
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Armed clashes broke out Sunday between Palestinian supporters of Yasser Arafat and Islamic extremists in Lebanon's largest refugee camp, and officials said two people were killed, including a teenage girl on a balcony outside the camp who was hit by a stray bullet.
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TBILISI, Georgia  - A gun battle between rival  forces meant to be keeping the peace in Georgia's separatist  province of South Ossetia killed two Georgian soldiers Monday  and dashed a short-lived cease-fire.
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A lengthy gunbattle erupted Saturday morning between Palestinians militants and Israeli troops just outside the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, killing two Palestinians, according to medical officials.
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Bodyguards take away Mahmoud Abbas, former Palestinian Prime Minister and the successor of Yasser Arafat as PLO chief, after gunfire erupted at the tent set up for mourners to gather in memory of Arafat in Gaza city Sunday Nov. 14, 2004.
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A seven-hour gun battle between suspected Islamic militants and police in northwest Pakistan Saturday left three extremists and two policemen dead, officials said.
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A leader of a Philippine communist breakaway group has been killed, in what may be rivalry among former comrades. The shooting is the latest in a series of assassinations of Communist Party defectors.
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Three soldiers and eight militants were killed in a gun battle at an oil pipeline hub operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's southern state of Bayelsa, the navy said on Sunday.
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Unity that had developed in the Palestinian territories following the death of President Yasser Arafat was shattered when gunmen opened fire on Palestinian leaders Sunday.
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&quot;We have shot dead the two and the operation is finally over,&quot; BSF officer K. Srinivasan told reporters. At least one BSF soldier and a civilian were wounded in the gun battle that lasted almost two hours.
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The Philippine government and the country's largest Muslim rebel group on Monday accused each other of breaking a nearly three-and-a-half year old cease-fire after 10 militants were killed in a gun battle last week in the south.
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A gun battle between militants and soldiers erupted in Indian Kashmir&#39;s summer capital Srinagar today, hours before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was due to arrive in the disputed region.
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Two US soldiers have been killed in a gun battle in southeastern Afghanistan, the US military has said. Six Afghan and two other American troops were slightly wounded in the exchange, in the province of Paktika.
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Port-au-Prince - At least three people were killed on Monday in gunfights that erupted during protests by militants against the transitional government in Haiti, news reports said.