U.N. Troops Fight Way Into Gang-Held Haitian Slum
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By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - U.N. troops, backed byarmored vehicles and helicopters, fought their way into alawless slum in the Haitian capital on Tuesday in their firstattempt to end a killing spree by warring street gangs.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haitian police backed by  U.N. troops on Thursday stormed the base of rebel former  soldiers that the government accused of killing four policemen  in an armed attack earlier in the week.
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U.N. peacekeepers beefed up security on Thursday in a Haitian city where more than 1,000 people died in floods, after desperate survivors fought each other to get at emergency food supplies.
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Hundreds of United Nations peacekeeping troops on Tuesday stormed a stronghold of supporters of the ousted president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, seeking
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haitian police backed by  U.N. peacekeepers raided a slum stronghold of supporters of  ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Wednesday and  arrested 75 people accused of violent attacks in the Haitian  capital, a police spokeswoman said.
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PETIT-GOAVE, Haiti -- Dozens of soldiers in camouflage fatigues control security in this coastal city of 125,000 people. They carry automatic weapons, and their base is a former police headquarters with a freshly painted sign that reads, &quot;General Headquarters of the Haitian Armed Forces.&quot;
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An alliance between the armed âpoliceâ of the interim government in Haiti and Brazilian troops representing the United Nations on Sunday over-ran a slum in the Haitian capital, sweeping aside barricades built, say the slumâs inhabitants, to protect
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The United Nations rushed hundreds more peacekeepers to storm-ravaged Gonaives to stem looting, while hundreds of weary Haitians lined up for food before daybreak Monday after spending a miserable night in the rain from Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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In a risky move that will determine the security of the country, U.N. forces are taking on the street gangs that have run Haiti for years.
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Assailants robbed and severely beat two reporters for Haiti's largest newspaper while the journalists were covering a cleanup effort by U.N. peacekeepers in a slum, their newspaper reported Saturday.
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Armed gangs in Haiti have looted aid trucks and attacked food distribution centers in the chaos following tropical storm Jeanne. UN troops struggled to maintain order as gangs in the northwest city of Gonaives mobbed relief workers.
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Haitian police and UN troops moved into a slum that has become a flashpoint for unrest, using bulldozers to remove a barricade of torched cars that had blocked traffic in the capital.
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The United Nations says it is trying to speed up the arrival of peacekeeping troops in Haiti to help with emergency relief in the wake of Tropical Storm Jeanne, which wreaked havoc in the Caribbean nation earlier this month.
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Hundreds of U.N. peacekeeping troops stormed a stronghold of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's supporters on Tuesday, seeking control of areas that have become flashpoints of violence. At least four people were killed.
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Haitian police and UN troops moved into a slum neighborhood on Sunday and cleared street barricades that paralyzed a part of the capital.
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - A Brazilian soldier with the  U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti was shot and wounded Saturday  when peacekeepers and local police faced gunfire in a crackdown  on armed gangs in the Haitian capital.
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Tropical Storm Jeanneâs death toll in Haiti rose to more than 1,500 and UN peacekeepers were sending reinforcements to help keep order among desperate survivors who have been looting aid trucks and mobbing food distribution centres.