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South African reggae musician Lucky Dube is shot dead by armed robbers in Johannesburg.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Jacques Rafael stood in front of the Moderne Store in downtown Port-au-Prince where his boss, a 52-year-old woman, was recently shot to death by members of the gangs who control this city's slums.
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U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police on Tuesday killed a suspected gang leader wanted in the kidnap-slaying of a French businessman.
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Beatles music legend John Lennon was shot dead after deciding to return home from the studio to see his young son Sean rather than go to dinner, his widow Yoko Ono said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
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Jeffrey Carter Albrecht, a keyboard player for the band Edie Brickell &amp; New Bohemians, was shot to death early Monday while trying to kick in the door of his girlfriend's neighbor, police said.
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A foreigner was shot dead in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Wednesday, the Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV channel reported. The Saudi-owned channel identified the man as British, who
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A Dutch film director, who was making a controversial film, was killed in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam Tuesday morning. Theo van Gogh was killed after being stabbed and shot, Radio Netherlands reported.
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At least one protester was fatally shot by Myanmar security forces Wednesday, according to opposition reports, amid fears that the anticipated crackdown in Myanmar has begun.
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A prominent Sri Lankan opposition Tamil parliamentarian was shot and killed on Tuesday, the military said, as the opposition charged that a lack of security made the government responsible for the death.
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A British man has been shot dead in Kenya after disturbing burglars ransacking the dream retirement home he built overlooking the Indian Ocean
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One of Jamaica's most popular reggae music stars could face criminal prosecution in Britain for lyrics which appear to incite violence against homosexuals.
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The murder of global reggae music icon Lucky Dube is another reminder of the violent crime wave fueled by ongoing social inequality
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A BULGARIAN mafia boss has been shot dead on a crowded street in the capital Sofia, the latest casualty in gangland score-settling that has left dozens dead.
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The murder created a South African icon. On Sept. 12, 1998, a crowd of young men fatally beat Gugu Dlamini, 36, in her village in rural KwaZulu-Natal province after she revealed that she carried HIV.
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INGOGO VILLAGE, South Africa  - Thousands of fans bade an emotional farewell on Sunday to South Africa's top reggae star Lucky Dube, whose murder in an apparent botched carjacking stunned even a nation hardened to violent crime.
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An Australian policeman was shot and killed in the Solomon Islands today - the first fatality since Canberra deployed security forces last year to help stabilise the troubled archipelago.
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Thousands of fans  bade an emotional farewell on Sunday to South Africa's top  reggae star Lucky Dube, whose murder in an apparent botched  carjacking stunned even a nation hardened to violent crime.