Boy's murder shocked a violent city
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Murders are not shocking in this city once called the nation's most dangerous. But even this place is shaken by the killing, still unsolved after five months, of a 12-year-old boy whose skull was so badly shattered by bullets that an undertaker used a top hat to hide the damage.
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By JAY CRONLEY  Before crime and violence and instability occupied such prominent places in our neighborhoods, spending a boyhood summer in Oklahoma City accounted for some of the best of times.  But these summers were not without rules.
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BAQUBA, Sep 2 (IPS) - The violence around the continuing U.S. military  operations in this city has robbed children of their childhood.
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The assassination of Benazir Bhutto yesterday sent waves of shock and sorrow through members of the Washington region's Pakistani community, many of whom predicted that the attack would trigger violence that could derail upcoming elections and the nation's fragile move toward democracy.
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This industrial city is reeling after learning that at least 63 children have contracted AIDS through medical negligence many blame on corruption and the illicit sale of blood.
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A "watershed moment" has been reached with a boy's killing in an apparent case of mistaken identity, say police.
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Gun crime that saw three teenage boys shot dead in London claimed another victim when a man was gunned down in his car in the east of the London while three people were injured elsewhere.
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AUSTIN, Texas  - A Texas man was beaten to death by enraged onlookers after the car in which he was riding struck a 4-year-old girl, said police in Austin, Texas on Wednesday.
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The sprawling Chicago suburbs that send their sons and daughters to Northern Illinois University struggled Sunday with the closeness of the country's latest massacre Â this time the gunman grew up among them.
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Young gangsters rampaged through the heart of the Haitian capital, torching cars and firing in the air in what many people feared was a prelude to more violence.
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The Malian and Muslim community in the Bronx is suddenly at the center of an unspeakable tragedy.
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It&#39;s violent. It&#39;s profane and politically incorrect. It&#39;s packed wall to wall with tough thugs doing terrible things.
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More than five weeks after hundreds perished in the seizure of School No. 1 by Chechen separatists, Beslan remains a town reeling from grief, shock, rage and disbelief, a town whose suffering seems only compounded by the day.
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Children clustered around the charred body, its features melted into an unrecognizable black mask. The man, accused of being a thief, was the fourth person to be burned alive this month in this western Kenyan city.
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A teenager dies after an attack in an inner city area of Nottingham.
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A father of four who was stabbed to death in Newry is described as a "gentle giant" whose death stunned a community.
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At least 20 people were within sight when a child was struck by a bullet from a gang fight in Trenton, but not one will tell police what they saw.