Helicopters open fire above Kenyan crowd
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Gunmen killed a Kenyan opposition politician at his home in the early hours of Tuesday and ethnic violence spread across the nation as a month-long political crisis threatened to spiral out of control.
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At least 35 children and adults sheltering in a church were burnt alive by an angry mob in Kenya Tuesday, as an eruption of election violence threatened to tip over into a full-scale tribal conflict.
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A mob torched a Kenyan church on Tuesday, killing villagers cowering inside, as the death toll from ethnic riots triggered by President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election soared to at least 180.
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Police fired tear gas on Tuesday to disperse supporters of President Mwai Kibaki before former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan starts mediating in the standoff over Kenya's election that has caused weeks of unrest.
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NAIVASHA, Kenya  - Machete-wielding mobs faced off in Kenya's Rift Valley on Monday and the death toll climbed to nearly 100 people in the latest bout of ethnic violence touched off by a disputed election.
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Police are behind dozens of deaths in Kenya's post-election turmoil, opening fire on both looters and opposition protesters under an unofficial "shoot to kill" policy, a leading human rights group said Sunday.
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Police fired tear gas Tuesday to disperse dozens of supporters of President Mwai Kibaki, hours before former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was due in Kenya to mediate the deadly dispute over Kibaki's re-election.
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A surge in violence killed at least 17 people in and around the Kenyan capital, including two people found beheaded and 14 killed in gunbattles, police said Friday.
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Loud explosions and gunfire rocked  Ivory Coast's capital Yamoussoukro on Saturday and flames could  be seen rising from the presidential palace grounds where  government helicopter gunships are based, witnesses said.
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NAIROBI, Jan. 1 -- A mob of men wielding sticks, spears and machetes set ablaze a church where villagers had sought refuge from Kenya's post-election violence, burning to death at least 35 people, including women and children, according to aid workers and a priest.
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Clashes between rival tribes in the Kenyan capital killed at least three people on Sunday in a fresh flare-up of ethnically-motivated violence after President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election last month, witnesses said.
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Kenyan police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday after disputed elections returned President Mwai Kibaki to power and triggered turmoil believed to have killed more than 100 people.
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An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles in Gaza City after nightfall Wednesday, one at a building in the Zeitoun neighborhood, witnesses said, setting a fire.
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Tear gas was fired Wednesday on people taking part in a prayer march sparking more post-election violence in the Kenyan capital.
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UN helicopters fire on troops loyal to a dissident general near the eastern DR Congo city of Goma.
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Severed heads displayed on poles, savagely mutilated bodies and dozens of deaths have sparked alarm in Kenya as a secret criminal society goes on the rampage and police launch bloody retaliation.
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Dozens of people seeking refuge in a church in Kenya were burned to death by a mob in an escalation of ethnic violence that is threatening to plunge the country into chaos.