Official: Jamaica Sees Rise in Weapons
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A booming illegal gun trade in Haiti has increased the number of high-powered weapons on Jamaica's streets, contributing to the island's spiraling homicide rate, the national security minister said.
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Government officials, already concerned that Air Jamaica is buckling under the weight of record high fuel prices, are growing increasingly uneasy with the costs to the national carrier of its pilots.
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Disappearance of shoulder-fired missiles has prompted intelligence analysts to increase sharply their estimate of the number of such weapons that may be at large.
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A UK parliamentary report says arms smuggling in DR Congo is so widespread that war could restart there.
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The government has increased monitoring to prevent raw materials and components for weapons from flowing into North Korea. The measures have been taken as part of South Korean exports of sodium
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BELFAST -- The Irish Republican Army has reopened negotiations with Northern Ireland's disarmament chief, the outlawed group said yesterday, signaling its readiness to put more weapons out of commission for the first time in over a year. The move came ahead of the planned unveiling by the leaders of Britain and Ireland of a joint peace package that has taken ...
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Home Office figures are expected to show a rise in firearms offences, but a fall in the number of deaths.
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Iraq's prime minister says an arms-for-cash scheme that started in Baghdad last week will be extended to other parts of Iraq.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of Iraq said today that a weapons-for-cash program in Baghdad would be expanded nationwide.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 9--President Thabo Mbeki on Friday sought to reassure a worried South Africa that his government is stepping up its fight against crime but offered little new detail on how it can curb levels of rape, robbery and murder that are among the highest in the world.
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Nigeria's police are planning to buy 80,000 new firearms ahead of next year's elections, a spokesman says.
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JAMAICA Prime Minister PJ Patterson was preparing to take a helicopter trip to the rural parish of Clarendon yesterday afternoon to survey the damage done by Hurricane Ivan.
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The number of firearms offences in England and Wales has risen in the last year, according to Home Office figures released on Thursday.
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The threat of renewed war in the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo increased yesterday amid unconfirmed reports by diplomats and a claim by a Congolese minister that
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Hurricane Ivan took aim Thursday at Jamaica and possibly Florida after killing 23 people in five countries and devastating Grenada, where police fired tear gas to stop a looting frenzy and frightened students armed themselves with knives and sticks.
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INGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 18 - The capital seemed abuzz Wednesday with the expectation of unprecedented victory. Customs agents, hotel workers, taxi drivers, even the Anglican minister who gave the pregame invocation, hoped, prayed, believed ...
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