Peru Gov't: Police Killed in Self-Defense
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Peru's interior minister said Wednesday that police acted in self-defense when they killed three coca farmers who were part of a group that hurled rocks and tried to burn a police lieutenant alive to protest U.S.-backed eradication of their cocaine producing crop.
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ELDORET, Kenya -- A mob of 3,000 armed with bows and arrows, spears, clubs and machetes killed a police officer Friday in the home village of an opposition lawmaker who had been fatally shot by a police officer the day before, police said.
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Gunmen killed at least three police officers and several civilians in an assault Sunday night on a small town in Guyana, authorities and local media said, in the second such attack in recent weeks.
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LIMA, Peru  - Five police officers died on Sunday  in a shootout with supporters of an ex-soldier who took over a  police station in a southern Peru early on New Year's Day and  took 10 police hostage, RPP radio reported.
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DENVER, July 16 -- Police shot and killed an armed man in the Colorado State Capitol on Monday afternoon after he walked into the offices of Gov. Bill Ritter (D) and demanded to see him, officials said.
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LIMA, Peru  - An armed group that took over a  police station in southern Peru on New Year's Day and killed  four officers will not surrender at midday as planned, its  leader Antauro Humala told Reuters Monday.
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A far-right Colombian warlord participating in peace talks with the government was shot dead by his own men, police said on Monday, in another bloody incident that could undermine the negotiations.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - Thirteen people were killed and 35 wounded in Afghanistan on Monday when police opened fire to break up a violent protest against a provincial governor, witnesses said.
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Human rights groups criticized Brazilian authorities on Friday for endorsing a new police offensive against urban crime in which a dozen people were killed in Rio de Janeiro and security forces were deployed around the capital Brasilia.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - At least eight Turkish paramilitary police were killed when Kurdish militants attacked their headquarters in eastern Turkey on Monday, security sources said, in the worst attack of its kind in a year.
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A Macedonian policeman was killed and  two were injured when their patrol car was ambushed by armed  men in a volatile region near the border with the breakaway  Serbian province of Kosovo, officials said on Wednesday.
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Police killed 13 people early Monday after a new wave of attacks against authorities on the fringes of Brazil&#039;s largest city, a state governor said. The killings occurred in the Sao Paulo suburbs of Diadema and Maua, but there was no violence in the city itself, said state Gov. Claudio Lembo.
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LIMA -- The leader of a nationalist group that seized a remote police station, taking 10 police officers hostage, and later allegedly ambushed a police vehicle, killing four officers, agreed yesterday to publicly lay down his weapons.
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A Macedonian police commander was killed and two officers wounded in a shootout in an ethnic Albanian area on the country's northern border near Kosovo, police said on Monday.
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Seven policemen were killed in a gun battle with US soldiers after troops attacked their post in eastern Afghanistan following a &quot;misunderstanding,&quot; government officials said Tuesday.
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LIMA, Peru  - The leader of a 200-strong armed  group that killed four policemen and seized a police station  and part of a southern Peruvian town, to demand the resignation  of President Alejandro Toledo, said it would hand over its  weapons on Monday.
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Gunmen belonging to a nationalist group that seized a police station in remote southern Peru ambushed a police vehicle responding to the scene Sunday, killing four officers and wounding several more, hospital officials said.