Carnival leader slain in new Rio bloodshed
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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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Police raided Rio de Janeiro's City of God slum looking for attackers who wounded two officers early on Wednesday, just hours before the winner of Rio's otherwise peaceful Carnival was to be announced.
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The black berets and uniforms of  the brutal police unit featured in the controversial movie  "Elite Squad" are a favorite costume for this year's Carnival  in Rio de Janeiro -- and a reminder of the violence afflicting  the city.
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A newly elected opposition lawmaker was shot and killed outside a popular Guatemalan tourist resort on Friday, the latest politician to be gunned down in an election year marred by violence.
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Ten people died, including a pro-India party worker slain by Muslim rebels, in new bloodshed in Indian Kashmir a day ahead of the next round of violence-hit municipal polls, police said.
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A truck plowed into a crowd of Carnival  revelers in the Angolan city of Lubango on Tuesday, killing at  least 20 people and injuring some 70 others, state radio  reported.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Police killed at least 18 suspected drug traffickers in a massive operation yesterday to serve arrest warrants and seize drugs and arms in a vast Rio de Janeiro shantytown, a state security official said.
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A man is killed less than a mile from the Notting Hill Carnival route but police say it is not clear whether it is linked to the event.
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TEGUCIGALPA  - Honduran police investigated a massacre that left 28 people dead after their bus was strafed by gunfire in what officials suspect was a chilling message from gangs to President Ricardo Maduro and crime-busting politicians.
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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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At least seven people, including the  police chief of the province of Aklan, were killed and 30  wounded on Sunday when a gunman opened fire at a religious  festival in the central Philippines, police authorities said.
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MEXICO CITY, May 23 -- A popular Haitian actor and radio talk show host was found shot to death Wednesday in Port-au-Prince, the second killing of a Haitian radio journalist in the past week.
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At least 23 people were killed on Thursday when a bus was strafed by machine gun fire, in what police suspect is a message from local gangs to an aspiring crime-busting presidential candidate.
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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta on Monday said it was police personnel who shot dead two activists during campaign rallies for a new party headed by former East Timor president Xanana Gusmao.
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Jose Carlos dos Reis Encina, once Brazil's most notorious drug lords, was gunned down on a major avenue Thursday, police said.
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At least 23 people were killed in the northern industrial city of San Pedro Sula on Thursday when gunmen sprayed a public bus with bullets and left a menacing message for crime-busting politicians, police said.
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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.