Arrests in Burundi crime clean-up
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Fifty people are held in a crackdown on crime in Burundi, as the president calls for the execution of armed criminals.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haitian police and U.N.  troops moved into a slum neighborhood on Sunday and cleared  street barricades that paralyzed a part of the capital.
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U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police seized the last remaining gang stronghold in Haiti's largest slum on Wednesday, the latest in a series of military crackdowns aimed at stabilizing the impoverished and divided Caribbean nation.
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TEGUCIGALPA  - Police in Honduras began investigating an horrific massacre of 26 people, killed when their bus was strafed by automatic gunfire, in what officials suspect was a message from local gangs to crime-busting politicians and President
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Burundi will urge regional leaders at a summit on Wednesday to impose sanctions against the rebel Hutu Forces for National Liberation (FNL), blamed for the slaughter of more than 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees in ...
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US and Italian authorities lauched a massive operation against the New York and Sicilian Mafia Thursday, arresting 74 suspects in a sweep described as a major blow against organized crime.
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Police seize hundreds of knives and thousands of litres of alcohol during an anti-violence drive.
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&quot;It is essential that the killings of more than 150 Congolese refugees in Burundi are the subject of an independent impartial investigation, the findings of which should be made public and acted upon so that the perpetrators can be brought to justice,&quot; ...
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Sri Lanka's police said on Tuesday it has arrested policemen and soldiers as well as underworld figures in connection with a rash of killings and abductions in the latest chapter of the two-decade civil war.
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The African Union is open to proposals for sanctions on a Burundi Hutu rebel group suspected of involvement in last week&#39;s massacre of more than 150 Tutsis in Burundi.
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In what is being called the largest global crackdown ever conducted, the US Department of Justice&#39;s &quot;Operation Web Snare&quot; has led to over 100 arrests.
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Police have arrested four suspected poachers and recovered a baby mountain gorilla that was stolen from its family in the forests of neighboring Congo, a spokesman said Monday.
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Police raided sites in Calabria on Wednesday and issued arrest warrants for 57 people Â including politicians, bankers and businessmen Â in the latest mafia sweep targeting drug trafficking and extortion rackets.
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BUJUMBURA, Burundi The massacre of about 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees by extremists of the Hutu ethnic group is an ugly reminder of what Burundi is up against in its shaky march toward peace.
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A massacre in Gatumba refugee camp in the small east African country of Burundi on Friday, August 13th has resulted in at least 164 Congolese dead, 107 injured, and a completely leveled and destroyed camp, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) reported today.
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TABA, Egypt - Investigators lifted fingerprints, swabbed dust and collected tissue from the sites of three car bombings Saturday and detained dozens of Bedouin tribesmen, including quarry workers who could have provided the explosives that killed at least
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Four men were arrested in connection with the case, the police said.