US missionary murdered in Brazil
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A US Catholic missionary and human rights worker is shot dead in the Brazilian Amazon after receiving death threats.
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Marxist rebels have killed a Catholic priest who disappeared earlier this month on a pastoral mission in a rebel-controlled jungle region in western Colombia, a church official said Friday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- As mourners laid her bullet-riddled body to rest yesterday, environmentalists and colleagues of slain missionary Dorothy Stang seesawed between fragile optimism and angry skepticism over a question they had hoped never to consider.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazilian police searched  Amazon jungle on Sunday for suspected killers of a 74-year-old  American nun gunned down after defending peasant farmers in  conflicts with loggers and ranchers.
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Police in Brazil are investigating the murder of one of the country's leading experts on indigenous Indians.
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A Hindu priest who blessed Sri Lanka's president at the weekend is shot dead.
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A US diplomat in Sudan is killed in a shooting in the capital, Khartoum, US embassy officials say.
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BRAZIL RIO DE JANEIRO -- A federal judge indicted two US pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers yesterday in Brazil's worst air disaster. A Boeing jet plunged into the Amazon rain forest in September after crashing in mid-air with an executive jet, killing 154. Pilots Joseph Lepore, 42, of Bay Shore, N.Y., and Jan Paladino, 34, of Westhampton Beach, ...
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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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An American diplomat in Sudan was shot and killed as he was returning from a New Yearâs Eve party, officials said.
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ANAPU, Brazil  - Thousands of Amazon peasants  flocked to the funeral of a U.S. nun on Tuesday and vented  outrage that Brazil's government has only acted to stem rising  violence in the rain forest after the murder of the renowned  foreign activist.
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BELEM, Brazil -- A 74-year-old American nun was shot and killed early yesterday in Brazil's Amazon jungle, where she worked for decades to defend peasant farmers and the rain forest from illegal loggers and ranchers.
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N'DJAMENA  - A U.S. evangelical church missionary has been kidnapped by rebels in northern Chad, an interior ministry official said on Thursday.
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BELEM, Brazil  - Brazil mobilized some 2,000  troops in the Amazon rain forest on Wednesday to curb death  squads blamed for the deaths of an American nun, a union leader  and two workers in land battles in the last four days.
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Some U.S. diplomats and officials who have been killed while working abroad:
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Relatives of an innocent Brazilian man slain by police who mistook him for a terrorist marked the first anniversary of his death Saturday with a memorial service at the Underground station where he was killed.
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Soccer player Cleonicio dos Santos Silva was shot and killed by thieves apparently trying to steal his car.