Hundreds flee site of Kenya police crackdown on gang
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Hundreds of people carrying their possessions in makeshift carts fled on Friday from Kenya's Mathare slum, where at least 33 people have died in a police crackdown on Kenya's deadly Mungiki gang.
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RANGOON, Burma - Police in full riot gear attempted to disperse more than 100 Buddhist monks who defied the junta's ban on public assembly this morning by trying to penetrate a barricade blocking Rangoon's famed Shwedagon Pagoda.
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Gangs of youths armed with machetes and clubs fought running battles with police on Sunday and burned tribal rivals alive in their homes in western Kenya, pushing the death toll from a month of escalating ethnic violence to nearly 800
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Kenyan police fire water cannons against hundreds of anti-government protesters in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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NAIVASHA, Kenya  - Kenyan military helicopters swooped over machete-wielding crowds terrorizing hundreds of refugees in a lakeside town on Tuesday against a backdrop of spiraling violence in the east African country.
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Kenyan police on Tuesday killed two suspected members of a banned sect blamed for a string of recent murders and beheadings in a mounting crackdown across the east African nation.
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Kenyan police used teargas on Wednesday to disperse youths in the coastal city of Mombasa who were heeding a call for nationwide protests against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election, witness said.
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Hundreds of Kenyans tried to flee the country's west Wednesday amid escalating opposition anger after the president named half of a new Cabinet, a line-up packed with his allies.
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Kenyan police fired teargas and water cannon on Thursday at thousands of anti-government protesters chanting "Peace" and singing the national anthem as they tried to march to a banned rally.
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Police have arrested scores of people in a crackdown on organized crime in southern Italy, including on clans that had a grip on the local tourist industry, authorities said Tuesday.
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Thousands of refugees fled western Kenya Saturday on buses escorted by armed soldiers, streaming down roads strewn with downed power lines, burnt out vehicles and the corpses of others killed when they tried to escape an explosion of postelection ethnic violence.
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NAKURU, Kenya  - Gunfire rang out in Nakuru on Saturday and armed gangs manned roadblocks in the western Kenyan town where at least 25 people have been killed in ethnic clashes since Thursday, witnesses said.
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Thousands of machete-wielding youths hunted down members of President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe Monday in western Kenya's Rift Valley, torching homes and buses, clashing with police, and blocking roads with burning tires
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Gangs of young men armed with machetes are roaming the streets in Kenya as post-election violence threatens to engulf the country. Horrific attacks are being reported, including the torching of a church where people who had sought refuge were burned alive.
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Thousands of Pakistanis are  fleeing a tense northwestern town and outlying villages amid  fears of a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist  militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
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KENYA NAIROBI -- A wave of violence across the Kenyan capital claimed 22 people early yesterday, and police were investigating whether a shadowy gang that has threatened to launch an uprising against the government was involved. Several of the attacks had the hallmarks of the Mungiki gang, which is accused in a string of beheadings and whose founder was sentenced ...
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Police fired tear gas Tuesday to disperse dozens of supporters of President Mwai Kibaki, hours before former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was due in Kenya to mediate the deadly dispute over Kibaki's re-election.