'Eighteen die' in Rio slum battle
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At least 18 people are reported killed in fighting between police and gangsters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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The number of people killed in mudslides in southern Bangladesh rises to around 118, officials say.
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Eighteen people appear in court in Queensland, charged in connection with a violent protest on Friday.
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Explosions in a Colombian coal mine killed at least 18 workers in the northeastern province of Norte de Santander on Saturday, and another 13 were trapped underground and feared dead, an official said on Sunday.
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At least eight people were killed in a Haitian slum during a gang feud set off by the weekend murder of a police officer, a U.N. official said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- At mid-morning last Sunday, a group of neighbors met at a corner bar in one of Rio's southern, middle-class neighborhoods. They drank beer and watched newcomers arrive steadily until the group, some two hours later, numbered more than 6,000.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Ex-soldiers who ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a deadly revolt said Wednesday reinforcements are advancing on Haitiâs capital to halt violence that has killed at least 46 people - a move that threatens conflict with
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One vagrant died and three were badly beaten in overnight attacks in Brazil&#39;s biggest city of Sao Paulo, raising the number of victims of a suspected death squad to 14 in four days.
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AT least 18 people have died after drinking tainted homemade liquor in Pakistan&#39;s eastern Punjab province. Two of the men were dead on arrival at Nishtar Hospital in Multan, and six others died in intensive
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti At least four people have been killed in shootouts in a slum near Haiti&#39;s capital following a show of force by UN troops.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - A Brazilian presidential   candidate's campaign rally bumped into a harsh reality on   Wednesday in the form of armed gang members in a Rio de Janeiro   slum who ordered them to take a detour.
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Rival gangs armed with machetes and stones fought in East Timor's capital late Thursday, injuring at least 13 people, witnesses and officials said. Hundreds of youths took part in the fighting in front of Guido Valadares Hospital, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said.
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At least 21 people are killed in a fire in a slum in the Bangladeshi port city of Chittagong, police say.
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At least 18 people were killed and 38 injured early Saturday, when a speeding bus plunged into a ditch in northeastern Pakistan, police and hospital officials said.
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Much of Colombia came to a standstill on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of protesters marched against leftist rebels accused last week of killing 11 provincial lawmakers they were holding hostage.
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The death toll from the collapse of a 12-storey residential building in Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria rose to at least 18 on Wednesday, security sources said.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Those demanding the return of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide hurled stones and fired shots in the air yesterday as the death toll from a surge of violence in the Haitian capital rose to 14.