SA violent crime 'unacceptable'
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South Africa's security minister says cases of serious and violent crime in the country are unacceptably high.
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Thailand troubled south remains tense after a series of violent incidents left at least seven people dead. The killings came a week after 85 Muslims were killed when a protest turned violent, many of them suffocated while in police custody.
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The FBI says violent crime was down by a fraction in Florida last year compared to 2002. Nationally, every type of violent crime fell last year with one notable exception: Murders were up for the fourth straight year.
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"They are traumatized because of the violence they face every day and they don't have the skills to deal with it"  It is a tragedy becoming too familiar for a country where gun crime is still relatively uncommon and where limits on gun ownership are strict _ an 11-year-old boy shot to death, allegedly by a hooded teenager on a BMX bicycle.Rhys Jones, a cherubic-faced boy who liked playing tag and video games, was in a pub's parking lot kicking a soccer ball around with friends Wednesday when two youths rode by and fired shots.Rhys died of a single bullet wound to the neck, the latest victim in a rising wave of youth violence that is sparking soul-searching about why some British children stray into lawlessness. Read more
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Anticipating worse violence in Thailand&#39;s largely Muslim south, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra urged security authorities on Saturday to work more decisively in their operations to restore peace to the region.
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South Africa's high levels of crime are continuing to deter foreign investors, a business group warns.
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Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells  condemns the violence in the Gaza Strip as "completely unacceptable".
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Philadelphia on Wednesday announced a crackdown on violent crime in an effort to curb one of the highest homicide rates among major U.S. cities.
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Johannesburg - A Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) study found that 57% of South African parents admitted to using corporal punishment on their children.
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The number of violent crimes reported nationwide dipped slightly in the first half of 2007, signaling the first notable decline in violence in two years, the FBI said today.
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Northern Ireland's peace process requires the Irish Republican Army to renounce crime as well as disarm, the governments of Britain and Ireland stressed Thursday after the outlawed group announced it will not scrap weapons &#151; and does not commit crimes.
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Home Secretary John Reid insists violent criminals will not be allowed to escape with on-the-spot fines.
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What is wrong in Thailand&#39;s southern provinces? Violence has scarred the region since the beginning of this year, with the latest bout of fighting coming on Monday when police forces battled 2,000 Muslim youths with tear gas and gunshots.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa  - Crime-ridden,  snarled with traffic and studded with architectural eyesores,  Johannesburg is not a classic holiday spot.
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If the IRA had carried out a Â£26.5m bank raid it would have been "unacceptable", Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness says.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 9 -- President Thabo Mbeki on Friday sought to reassure worried South Africans that his government is stepping up its fight against crime but offered little new detail on how it can curb levels of rape, robbery and murder that are among the highest in the world.
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The high number of preventable injuries in children is a 'disgrace', a report has warned.