Peru Prison Riot Leaves 5 Dead, 18 Hurt
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Five prisoners were killed and at least 18 others wounded Tuesday in a confrontation between rival gangs in an overcrowded men's prison, officials said.
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Tanzanian death row prisoners enter the fifth day of a hunger strike complaining of abuses.
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Thai-Muslim citizens check for names their relatives who died after the Monday&#39;s riot erected outside a military camp in Pattani province, southern Thailand Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004.
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LIMA, Peru  - American Lori Berenson faces 11 more  years behind bars in Peru after the Americas' top human rights  court upheld her 20-year sentence for collaborating with  Marxist rebels, President Alejandro Toledo said on Thursday.
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ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES -- Rioting swept through a penitentiary housing 2,000 prisoners in central Argentina late yesterday, leaving at least three inmates dead and two dozen guards hostage, authorities said. Television footage showed rampaging inmates on the prison's roof wielding homemade knives while holding hostages, including one man in a bloodied shirt. Shots rang out as the rioters cast rocks ...
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At least 85 killed as violence appears to spiral beyond deadlocked political leaders' control.
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Gunmen killed five people in Rio de Janeiro's poor outskirts in an attack blamed on rival drug gangs, police said Sunday.
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LIMA, Peru  - Five police officers died on Sunday  in a shootout with supporters of an ex-soldier who took over a  police station in a southern Peru early on New Year's Day and  took 10 police hostage, RPP radio reported.
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U.S. troops shot dead four inmates  during a riot at a military prison in southern Iraq and six  other detainees were injured on Monday, the U.S. military said.
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Afghan troops stormed a notorious prison in a hail of gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades Friday, ending a 10-hour standoff that began when five inmates once suspected of belonging to al-Qaida tried to escape. Four inmates and four guards were killed in the day's violence.
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LIMA, Peru  - American Lori Berenson faces 11 more  years behind bars in Peru after the Americas' top human rights  court on Thursday upheld her 20-year sentence for collaborating  with Marxist rebels.
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WASHINGTON: Five people were killed and two wounded late Wednesday when a gunman opened fire during a heavy metal concert at a night club in Columbus Ohio, local media reported.
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MEXICO CITY, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- A riot taking place Wednesday at La Esperanza Jail, in Mariona, in the outskirts of El Salvador,left a toll of 30 dead and 28 injured, with six grenades exploding.
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Two prisoners were killed and five wounded on Wednesday when a fight broke out among hundreds of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, the US military said.
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LIMA -- Peru declared a state of emergency in the southern Andean town of Andahuaylas yesterday where an armed group led by a radical former soldier stormed a police station and was holding 10 officers hostage. Seven people were injured, two seriously, in a gunfight in the early hours of New Year's Day after former army Major Antauro Humala and ...
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LIMA, Peru  - Indian peasants burned alive a man  accused of stealing a gas canister in the latest outbreak of  mob justice in Peru's remote southern Andes.
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Bogota, Colombia - The leader of a paramilitary faction involved in peace talks with the government may be among five paramilitary members killed in an ambush on Monday, authorities said.