Gunmen rob English tourists in Rio
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A group of 18 English tourists was robbed by heavily armed gunmen shortly after arriving in Rio de Janeiro for vacation, authorities said Sunday.
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Tanzania's ambassador to South Africa and his wife were attacked by armed robbers at a farewell dinner hosted for them in the capital Pretoria, police said Saturday.
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Gunmen snatched two Americans and a  Briton from a house in an affluent neighborhood of central  Baghdad on Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign  of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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A lone gunman opened fire on a group of   foreign tourists in the Jordanian capital Amman on Monday,   killing a British man and wounding six other people, officials   and witnesses said.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica  - Gunmen killed three men and wounded two others near some of Montego Bay's upscale hotels on Friday, the first day of the tourist high season in the violence-plagued Jamaican resort city, police said.
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Four members of a French family were killed by gunmen during a robbery in eastern Mauritania Monday, police said.
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A lone gunman opened fire on a group of   foreign tourists in the Jordanian capital Amman on Monday,   killing a British man and wounding six, an official and a   witness said.
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Two gunmen opened fire on tourists Monday near the Roman amphitheater in the Jordanian capital Amman, police told CNN.
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By Andrei Khalip RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Brazilian authoritiessought ways to make Rio de Janiero tourist spots safer onTuesday amid sharp criticism of police after 24 muggings over aholiday weekend.
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Brazilian police step up patrols after armed groups clash in  Rio's slums, leaving seven dead over the weekend.
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Gunmen open fire on a group of tourists in eastern Yemen, killing three people, security official says
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British and French nationals were among a number of foreign tourists feared kidnapped on Friday in a remote area of northeastern Ethiopia.
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A Briton and two other foreigners helping to organise Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election have been kidnapped by armed men in Kabul, triggering fears that militants
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A Jordanian gunman opened fire on Western tourists in the heart of Amman, killing a Briton and wounding five holidaymakers and a policeman in what officials have called a &quot;terror&quot; attack.
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Armed men early Thursday kidnapped a three-year-old girl said to be the daughter of a British expatriate in volatile southern Nigeria, police said.
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At least 13 people die in Nigeria when gunmen attack police stations and a hotel in Port Harcourt.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Brazilian authorities  sought ways to make Rio de Janiero tourist spots safer on  Tuesday amid sharp criticism of police after 24 muggings over a  holiday weekend.