Child among dead in Rio drug raid
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Twelve people, including a young boy,  are killed as Brazilian police mount an anti-drugs raid on a  Rio slum.
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AUSTIN, Texas  - A enraged mob beat to death the passenger of a vehicle that struck a child in the Texan capital Austin, police said on Wednesday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - More than 10 people werekilled in a nearly four-hour-long gunbattle between two druggangs in Rio de Janeiro early on Monday, Brazilian media said.
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Jose Carlos dos Reis Encina, once Brazil's most notorious drug lords, was gunned down on a major avenue Thursday, police said.
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CANCUN, Mexico -- Police found the bodies of nine people, including three federal agents, in two areas Thursday near this Caribbean resort city, apparent victims of drug killings, officials said.
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A big police operation continues in a group of Rio shanty towns, as Brazilian police confront drug dealers.
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Police raided Rio de Janeiro's City of God slum looking for attackers who wounded two officers early on Wednesday, just hours before the winner of Rio's otherwise peaceful Carnival was to be announced.
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South African reggae star Lucky Dube has been shot dead in front of his two children when robbers tried to hijack his car in Johannesburg, police said.
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ASUNCION, Paraguay  - The daughter of Paraguay'sformer President Raul Cubas was found dead on Wednesdayunderneath a house near the capital, nearly five months aftershe was kidnapped, government officials said.
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Soccer player Cleonicio dos Santos Silva was shot and killed by thieves apparently trying to steal his car.
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Police say there is no evidence linking 15-year-old boy's death to the recent sudden deaths of 14 other people in area
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The daughter of former Paraguayan President Raul Cubas was found dead Wednesday night, months after she was abducted in the highest-profile kidnapping in this South American country.
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By MICHAEL MELIA SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressant drugs, a U.S.-based pathologist who conducted a private autopsy said Wednesday.
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A mother whose dead baby's identity was used by suspected drug smugglers says she is heartbroken.
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The daughter of former Paraguyan President Raul Cubas was found dead Wednesday night, months after she was abducted by heavily armed gunmen in the highest-profile kidnapping ever in this South American country.
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The South African police were today hunting for a white youth who randomly shot into a black squatter camp, killing four people, including a baby and a teenage boy, and wounding about nine others.
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Suspected drug dealers opened fire on a rival gang at a ranch in southwest Colombia, killing at least 10 people, including a toddler and a pregnant woman, authorities said.