Japanese youths' rage fuels wave of violent crime
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SASEBO, Japan -- On a cloudless afternoon in this sleepy port city, an 11-year-old girl drenched in blood and clutching a box cutter walked into the lunchroom at her elementary school. Teachers and students froze, assuming the sixth-grader known for her lighthearted nature had gravely hurt herself -- but she quickly dispelled that impression, witnesses said, by uttering a few ...
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The arrests of 32 young people on their way to a friendâs wake have gotten widespread attention; police say they feared gang violence.
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Japan on Tuesday hanged a man convicted of stabbing to death eight elementary school children in a rampage that shocked the nation and severely shook its sense of security, media said.
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The tactics used by youth gangs to silence witnesses are increasingly similar to those used by the Mafia.
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Gangs of youths allied to feuding East  Timor police or army units went on the rampage in parts of the  capital on Saturday, torching houses and vehicles as Australian  and Malaysian peacekeeping troops stepped up patrols.
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Stolen then brainwashed and forced to fight, children around the world are being turned into cold-blooded killing machines. Warlords target children as recruits because of their very vulnerability, treating them as no more than "cannon fodder," one child advocate says.
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Rioters hurling rocks clashed with police in the rough suburbs of Paris for a second night running as authorities arrested a youth whose injury -- along with the death of two friends -- last year sparked a wave of brutal rioting.
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With alienated French Basque youth swelling the ranks of ETA, French authorities fear an upsurge of separatist violence
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Courts have seen the number of sex offense cases involving juvenile offenders rise dramatically in recent years, an Associated Press review of national statistics found, and treatment professionals say the offenders are getting younger and the crimes more violent.
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JAPAN was on edge last night after its worst earthquake in almost a decade killed at least 20 people, including three children, and injured 1500.
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Stoned, beaten and insulted, their  vehicles torched by crowds of hostile youths, French police say  they face an urban guerrilla war when they enter the run-down  neighborhoods that ring the major cities.
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Â· Youth who kicked man to death had violent historyÂ· Police and prosecutors warned court of danger
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The stirrings of unrest have emerged among youthful migrant workers who supply cheap labor to foreign and Chinese businesses.
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The murder rate jumped by more than 10 percent among dozens of large U.S. cities since 2004, a study shows in the latest sign of the end of a national lull in violent crime. Robberies also spiked during the two-year period, as did felony assaults and attacks with guns, according to the report to be released Friday by the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based law enforcement think tank.
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Japan has hanged a man convicted of stabbing to death eight elementary school children in a rampage that shocked the nation and severely shook its sense of security, local media have said.
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The bombs were the latest eruption of large-scale violence in an insurgency that has seen nearly daily attacks over the past three years.
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Gangs of youths armed with machetes and clubs fought running battles with police on Sunday and burned tribal rivals alive in their homes in western Kenya, pushing the death toll from a month of escalating ethnic violence to nearly 800.