Nine killed in Rio slum shoot-out
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Nine are shot dead in a Rio de Janeiro shantytown, as police battle drugs gangs and militia groups.
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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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The boss of Colombia's biggest remaining cocaine cartel was shot dead in neighboring Venezuela in an apparent settling of scores among drug gangs, authorities said on Friday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - More than 10 people were  killed in a nearly four-hour-long gunbattle between two drug  gangs in Rio de Janeiro early on Monday, Brazilian media said.
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At least 21 people are killed in a fire in a slum in the Bangladeshi port city of Chittagong, police say.
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Two candidates in Sunday's regional polls in Colombia are shot dead, bringing the number killed to at least 21.
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People injured in a nightclub fire are helped outside the nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Dec. 31, 2004. The fire swept through the crowded nightclub, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 200, police said Friday.
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Human rights groups criticized Brazilian authorities on Friday for endorsing a new police offensive against urban crime in which a dozen people were killed in Rio de Janeiro and security forces were deployed around the capital Brasilia.
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Rio shanty  town residents say innocent people were among the 19 killed by Brazilian police during a raid on drug gangs.
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Brazil is cracking down on the drug gangs, prompting many a shootout in the poorer districts, known as favelas. The Guardian spent a day with a Rio photographer who risks his life almost daily to cover the battle
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A Brazilian soldier with the UN 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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Five people were shot to death within six hours early Sunday, including three who were killed after an argument in a neighborhood bar, police said.
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Leftist rebels ambushed a police convoy Tuesday in northeastern Colombia, killing at least nine officers and wounding three others, authorities said. A 10th policeman was killed in a separate incident.
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Angry garment workers set fire to seven textile factories in and around the capital Tuesday after news that an employee shot in the back during recent protests over better pay and working conditions had died, officials and witnesses said.
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Nine people were shot dead on Tuesday in clashes between Pakistani paramilitary forces and radical Muslim students at an Islamabad mosque run by a Taliban-style movement, officials said.
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Soldiers and police fired into crowds of demonstrators in Myanmar's largest city and gave them 10 minutes to clear the streets or be shot on Thursday, with nine people killed in the second day of a crackdown on the largest uprising in 20 years.
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The leader of one of Rio's most successful samba troupes and his wife are shot dead days before Carnival.