Crime wave in Brazil city enters 3rd day
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Gangs torched buses and attacked banks and police stations across South America&#039;s biggest city Thursday, deepening crime fears as a wave of rampant violence entered its third day.
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It took thieves just three minutes to steal paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari, worth millions of dollars, from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art
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Kisumu, Kenyaâs third largest city, was on fire again on Monday as the police and military struggled to stop a wave of revenge killings.
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The toll from stray bullets that rain down on Rio from the city's steep hillside slums as police and drug gangs battle with automatic weapons has grown sharply, with one innocent bystander killed or wounded every day.
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Brazil's raucous Carnival celebrations kicked off in Rio de Janeiro on Friday with tens of thousands dancing and singing in the streets, defying a recent surge of gun violence in the city's slums.
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Another homeless person was found bludgeoned to death in South America&#39;s biggest city Sunday, the sixth such killing in Sao Paulo within the past several days, police said.
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A shootout erupted in a church in a cocaine-producing region of southern Colombia, leaving at least three people dead and 14 wounded, authorities said Sunday.
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Minor fan fights and brief standoffs with police led to 50 arrests overnight, authorities said Saturday as they worked to limit street violence ahead of the England-Portugal World Cup game.
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Mobsters shot dead three people on Monday in a fresh upsurge of clan violence in the Mediterranean port city of Naples, Ansa news agency reported.
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Violence erupted again in Port-au-Prince on Friday, one day after three policemen were killed in a clash with protesters demanding the return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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Brazil&#39;s ruling Workers&#39; Party (PT) held onto the mayoralty in at least three major cities in Sunday&#39;s municipal vote but will face a tough run
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Police killed at least 13 suspected drug traffickers in a huge operation Wednesday aimed at ending a war between authorities and gangs that has raged for nearly two months in a Rio de Janeiro slum.
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Brazilian police are looking for three Cuban musicians who disappeared this week and are believed to want asylum, a police spokesman said on Friday.
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Robberies at highest level for three years, according to government figures.
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By Andrei Khalip RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Rio de Janeiroauthorities on Thursday played down a human rights group reportwhich claimed police violence in the Brazilian city was rife,saying the number of people killed by police was decreasing.
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More than 90 people in Brazil face possible charges after a two-year inquiry into money laundering.
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More than half of all flights in Brazil were delayed or canceled on Tuesday for the third straight day as the country's air crisis deepened following a deadly crash last week and a major radar outage.