9 unarmed police killed in East Timor
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Soldiers fired on unarmed police in East Timor&#039;s capital Thursday, killing nine and wounding 27, as international troops landed to try to end the fighting that threatens to push the country closer to civil war.
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Violence continues as police kill four people who were rioting in the west of the country
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Up to 100 elite Australian troops have arrived in East Timor amid fears a tense stand-off between international forces and a wanted rebel leader could spark fresh violence, media reported Saturday.
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BAGHDAD -- Nine police officers were killed yesterday near Tikrit when a suicide bomber drove up to a police station and detonated explosives hidden under hay on the bed of a truck, the US military and Iraqi officials said.
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A battle between rival gangs armed with machetes killed one fighter and injured five others in East Timor's capital, police and hospital officials said Thursday.
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Taliban fighters have killed four Afghan police and wounded four others in a drive-by shooting at a checkpoint in south Afghanistan, police say.
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East Timor declared a state of emergency Tuesday after attacks on the country's top leaders in a failed coup left the president in "extremely serious" condition with gunshot wounds
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At least 10 Iraqi policemen were killed  in a gun battle with insurgents south of Baghdad on Thursday,  police sources said.
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At least nine people are killed in a major gunbattle between police and squatters in the Philippines.
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Taleban militants in Afghanistan kill six police in an attack on their convoy in the south-east Paktika province.
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US-led soldiers killed nine Afghan policemen, including a district police chief, and a woman in an overnight raid aimed at Taliban fighters, Afghan officials said Thursday.
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International police deployed to East Timor in the wake of unrest in May have formally handed over their authority to the United Nations during a ceremony in the capital.
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Fresh fighting between rival gangs left dozens of people wounded in East Timor on Saturday, authorities said, and the government hailed a U.N. Security Council decision to authorize 1,600 international police to help restore stability.
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Nine people are killed in Burma during a violent crackdown on protests against the junta, state media says.
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A young man is killed and two others injured during clashes in East Timor's capital, Dili, UN police say.
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Nine are shot dead in a Rio de Janeiro shantytown, as police battle drugs gangs and militia groups.
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Six Iraqi policemen are killed by gunmen in an attack on a checkpoint near the city of Mosul, police say.