US missionary murdered in Brazil
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A US Catholic missionary and human rights worker is shot dead in the Brazilian Amazon after receiving death threats.
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BELEM, Brazil  - A 74-year-old American nun was  shot to death early on Saturday in Brazil's Amazon rain forest,  where she worked for decades to defend human rights and the  environment despite constant death threats.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Gunmen shot and killed a  Baptist minister who was Haiti's most popular radio personality  on Monday, the radio station's owner said.
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Police searched Sunday for four people suspected in the slaying of a 74-year-old American nun &#151; the most prominent activist gunned down in the Amazon since the 1988 murder of Chico Mendes.
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A gunman on Tuesday killed an American diplomat and his Sudanese driver in Khartoum, U.S. and Sudanese officials said.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Gunme n abducted an American missionary as he left a church near the capital and have demanded a ransom for his release, United Nations police said yesterday. Nathan Jean-Bieubonne, a US citizen of Haitian descent, was seized Sunday afternoon , UN police spokesman Fred Blaise said. Blaise said a UN task force was working with Haitian police to ...
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Police in Brazil are investigating the murder of one of the country's leading experts on indigenous Indians.
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The shootings at a megachurch and a Christian missionary center now appear to be linked. What was the connection?
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Another homeless person was found bludgeoned to death in South America's biggest city Sunday, the sixth such killing in Sao Paulo within the past several days, police said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- As mourners laid her bullet-riddled body to rest yesterday, environmentalists and colleagues of slain missionary Dorothy Stang seesawed between fragile optimism and angry skepticism over a question they had hoped never to consider.
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NEW YORK - A US Marine shot and killed a wounded prisoner in a Fallujah mosque, according to a television pool report broadcast Monday.
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Gunmen killed five people in a Sao Paulo slum Sunday in what police suspect was a drug-related crime, bringing to 21 the death toll from attacks this month in South America's biggest city.
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Five rural workers are shot dead in the most violent incident in Brazil's land row since the president took power.
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Bishop Ivo Lorscheiter, a prominent critic of Brazil's former military regime who also squared off with the Vatican over his progressive beliefs, died Monday, the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops said. He was 79.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica  - A group of U.S. tourists, including a former Marine, killed a Costa Rican mugger by breaking his neck after he pulled a gun on them in a Caribbean port, a local police official said on Thursday.
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The leader of one of Rio's most successful samba troupes and his wife are shot dead days before Carnival.
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BELEM, Brazil  - Brazil mobilized some 2,000  troops in the Amazon rain forest on Wednesday to curb death  squads blamed for the deaths of an American nun, a union leader  and two workers in land battles in the last four days.