Brazil Lynch Mob Destroys Police Stations
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An angry mob destroyed police stations and a courthouse in two Amazon towns while trying to lynch murder suspects, officials said Monday. One man was killed during the rioting and 44 people were arrested.
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Violence has erupted in Haiti as police attempted to dismantle a demonstration by supporters of ousted president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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Naples police say they have broken up a mob protection racket focused on local bakeries and flour makers.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - One vagrant died and three  were badly beaten in overnight attacks in Brazil's biggest city  of Sao Paulo, raising the number of victims of a suspected  death squad to 14 in four days.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Hooded anti-American marchers  protesting an Asia-Pacific summit in Chile on Friday hurled  Molotov cocktails and stones at police who retaliated with  water cannons and tear gas.
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Police clashed Thursday with students, environmentalists and left-leaning Brazilians protesting a visit by President Bush and his push for an ethanol energy alliance with Latin America's largest nation.
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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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Assailants sprayed gunfire at police, set off bombs outside government buildings, and torched buses and banks Monday in a new wave of attacks that authorities suspect were ordered by gang leaders from behind bars.
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Twelve people, including a young boy,  are killed as Brazilian police mount an anti-drugs raid on a  Rio slum.
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POLICE broke up a mob of Hindu hardliners who threatened to demolish a 17th century Muslim tomb in western india, arresting about 200 people and beating back others with batons, a police officer said.
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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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Police in South America&#039;s largest city have been placed on maximum alert following a shootout in which 13 suspected gang members were killed trying to carry out a plan to attack prison guards.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Violence erupted again today in Port-au-Prince and the decapitated bodies of two police officers were found, the day after they were killed in a clash with protesters demanding the return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Mexican police admitted on Wednesday they were powerless to prevent an angry mob lynching two of their officers, in a gruesome attack that shocked even this crime-hardened nation.
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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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Brazilian authorities said they raided an Amazon plantation where more than 1,000 laborers were found working 13-hour days, in horrendous conditions, cutting sugar cane for ethanol production.
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Police fire teargas in the Democratic Republic of Congo to disperse protesters angered by moves to delay elections.