Armed gangs rob Haiti&#39;s starving children
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By Joseph Guyler Delva in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Andrew Buncombe in Washington. Armed gangs roamed Haiti yesterday, stealing food from the hungry and hope from entire communities as the poorest country
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Besides hostage-takings by insurgent groups, many criminal gangs in Iraq have been kidnapping people for ransom.
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Armed gangs are seizing children for ransom in the Central African Republic, Amnesty International says.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Oct. 3, 2004 - Gunfire erupted in a slum teeming with loyalists of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Sunday, sending people scattering through trash-strewn streets following
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Haitian police backed by UN peacekeepers raided a slum stronghold of supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Wednesday and arrested
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Victims who lost relatives, homes and belongings in Tropical Storm Jeanne are now tormented by street gangs who attack food convoys, raid homes at night and shoot those who get in their way.    The failure of Haiti's U.S.-backed government to disarm the gangs that helped oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has created a climate of instability that further jeopardizes lives after the calamity Jeanne visited on Gonaives 10 days ago...
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Port-Au-Prince - Young gangsters rampaged through a neighbourhood blocks from the presidential National Palace, torching cars and firing in the air in what many expect is a prelude to another fearsomely violent day in Haiti&#39;s capital.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - UN peacekeepers patrolled the streets of Haiti&#39;s capital as gunfire rang out Thursday, a day after a prison riot and shootouts killed a dozen people and left scores injured during a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - A gang chased a French  minister out of a Haitian slum under gunfire on Monday, while  former soldiers who helped oust President Jean-Bertrand  Aristide took control of a southern town and defied U.N. forces  to remove them.
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UN peacekeepers in armored vehicles rolled through nearly deserted streets Friday in Haiti&#39;s capital, where shops were closed amid fears of violence on the 10th anniversary
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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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Gunmen shot and killed 11 people, including five children, early on Saturday in a village in Guyana, a small South American country where gang violence is on the rise.
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Assailants robbed and severely beat two reporters for Haiti's largest newspaper while the journalists were covering a cleanup effort by U.N. peacekeepers in a slum, their newspaper reported Saturday.
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At least seven of a dozen children kidnapped on their way to school in Haiti are returned to their families.
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Violence has returned in Haiti&#39;s capital, where armed gangs have taken to the streets in the slums of Port-au-Prince. The Haitian National Police, backed by UN troops, are struggling to regain control of the city.
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Honduran gangs had killed before, leaving dismembered bodies and grisly messages in defiance of President Ricardo Maduro&#39;s no-tolerance campaign against them.
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Gunmen burned tires and robbed food from markets in Port-au-Prince as unrest spread over storm-hit and flood-ravaged Haiti, killing about a dozen people, reports from the Haitian capital said on Sunday.