Assault-weapon attacks on rise in Miami
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The spray of bullets that killed a police officer and hurt three others this week came from something increasingly common on this city's streets: a high-powered assault weapon, fast becoming the gun of choice for gang members and violent criminals.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. - Police are looking for two women they say sexually assaulted a man with a pair of cooking tongs in a drug-related attack.  Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan police say the victim, a 25-year-old man, awoke Saturday morning with a metal object protruding from his body.
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Alec Trujillo looks over a demonstration weapon with the help of Sgt. Nicholas Roberts Tuesday at the annual Night Out Against Crime, a national event, at Cottonwood Mall, 4835 S. Highland in Holladay.  (c) 2006 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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Extremists in Somalia threatened to carry out suicide attacks against African Union peacekeepers who are to begin deploying in the coming days, and the capital's international airport came under mortar fire Thursday.
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The fourth quarter of the Miami-Buffalo game Sunday sounded an alarm that Miami&#39;s defense is growing weary of carrying both ends of the stretcher.
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The number of violent crimes in the   United States jumped 2.3 percent in 2005 and a senior Justice   Department official said on Monday it may keep rising this   year.
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Insurgents have launched new attacks in several Iraqi cities, continuing their campaign of violence in the face of a US and Iraqi offensive to crush them.
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Heavily armed soldiers take up key positions in the capital of Guinea-Bissau, after gunshots are heard.
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Several East Coast cities are launching a new tactic against urban gun violence by creating a database to pool information on gun-related crimes and firearms trafficking.
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Triads are fuelling a trade that has seen a surge in violence in the aready crime-riddled Cape, writes Sam Kiley.
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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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Â· Victim 'threatened public' with Uzi-style weaponÂ· Locals link death to 'troubled' stranger in pub
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Attacks against U.S. forces have increased following a call earlier this month from al-Qaida in Iraq's leader to target the Americans, the top U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD, May 23 -- More than three months into a U.S.-Iraqi security offensive designed to curtail sectarian violence in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, Health Ministry statistics show that such killings are rising again.
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A booming illegal gun trade in Haiti has increased the number of high-powered weapons on Jamaica's streets, contributing to the island's spiraling homicide rate, the national security minister said.
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The threat of a terrorist attack against Germans in Afghanistan &#151; or even suicide bombings in Germany itself &#151; appears to be on the rise in recent days, officials said Friday.
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla.  -- Gunfire erupted outside a popular South Beach restaurant early Memorial Day, leaving two men dead on one of the city's busiest weekends, police said.