Gunmen Attack Mauritania Security Chief's Home
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Unidentified gunmen opened fire on  the house of Mauritania's national security chief early on  Sunday, police said, in an attack less than two months after  the West African country said it had foiled an attempted coup.
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Gunmen storm a house in Saddam Hussein's native village in Iraq and shoot dead nine members of his clan.
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The Nairobi residence of the newly elected Somali president is reportedly attacked by unknown gunmen.
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Rebel soldiers attacked the home of East  Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta early on Monday and he has  been wounded in the stomach by gunfire, a military spokesman  said on Monday.
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Gunmen opened fire on the Israeli Embassy in the West African nation of Mauritania on Friday morning, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
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Gunmen opened fire on former Iraqi governing council president Ahmed Chalabi&#39;s convoy on Wednesday, wounding two of his bodyguards, the politician and his aides said.
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Gunmen wounded President and Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta and opened fire on a car carrying the prime minister Monday in apparently coordinated attacks against the leadership of the recently independent nation
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A leading city figure is stabbed to death in his own home by intruders, police say.
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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 burst into the home of a top Fatah official in Gaza early Friday and kidnapped him, the man's family said, in the first such abduction of a politician since Hamas forces routed their Fatah rivals and overtook the strip in June.
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Gunmen stormed an office of a Palestinian   news service under the control of President Mahmoud Abbas on   Tuesday, beating up one reporter and vandalizing equipment,   witnesses and the news agency said.
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BAGHDAD -- Dozens of gunmen swooped into a police chief's home yesterday, killing his wife and two brothers, and kidnapping three of his grown children. The chief wasn't there, but the attack showed the dangers facing Iraqi forces as they try to take over the country's security so US forces can leave.
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Suspected Islamist militants  attacked the house of a senior government official in a village  in northwestern Pakistan and killed 13 people, police said on  Thursday.
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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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A suicide car bomber attacks the home of Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi, though he is not harmed.
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Witnesses say the attackers surrounded Brigadier-General Mohammad al-Batrawi&#39;s car and forced him to drive off. Brigadier Batrawi is head of the financial surveillance department of the Palestinian security forces.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE : A senior French government official was evacuated from a Haitian hospital after unknown gunmen opened fire, in an apparent attack on the official.