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SF Gate
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Police imposed a daylong curfew in the western Indian city of Jaipur on Wednesday to prevent any retaliatory violence after a series of blasts in crowded areas left at least 80 people dead.
Authorities suspect Islamic militants were behind the blasts,..
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BBC News
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Colombian police say they have killed one of the country's most notorious criminals and drug lords.
Media reports say the dead man is Victor Manuel Mejia Munera, although officials earlier said it was his brother, Miguel Angel.
Defence Minister Juan..
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CNN
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Vietnam police broke up a demonstration Tuesday against China's policies ahead of the final international leg of the Olympic torch relay, witnesses said.
Officers detained several people for unfurling a banner and shouting, "Boycott the Beijing Olympic..
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CNN
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Hundreds of people burned a mosque Monday in the West Java province of Indonesia, police said.
Around 300 people attacked the Al Furqon mosque about 1 a.m., damaging a nearby school, police said. The mosque belonged to the Ahmadiyah sect considered her..
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CNN
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Zimbabwe police raided the offices of opposition party Movement for Democratic Change in the capital city Harare Friday, according to a journalist there. Police, who arrived in several trucks and a bus, took away several people who were "limping and in pa..
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CNN
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At least 11 members of a Kenyan gang were killed Monday in a confrontation with police following protests in the capital city of Nairobi and other parts of the country, local media reported. The Mungiki gang set up roadblocks and burned cars to protest th..
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SF Gate
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Iraqi police say a roadside bomb has struck a minibus northeast of Baghdad, killing at least six civilians and wounding 10.
Officials in the Diyala provincial police center say the blast struck morning commuters in the Dahalkah area on the outskirts of..
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MSNBC
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A mortar barrage hit Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraq's government and the U.S. embassy, police said, a day after Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to stand down.
The Green Zone has come under intense mortar an..
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CNN
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The United Nations said Monday it is evacuating international police from the northern sector of the ethnically divided Kosovo town of Mitrovica after U.N. police and NATO soldiers were wounded in clashes with Serbs. "There are reports of possible gunfire..
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CNN
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At least 23 people were killed and 171 others were wounded Tuesday in three suicide bombings in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, police have said, as the country's new parliament prepares to be sworn in. Two of the attacks targeted an office of the F..
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CNN
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Two suicide bombings killed five people on Monday in Diyala province -- the volatile Iraq province that has been a major battleground in the war, police said.
In the first attack, an 18-year-old woman blew herself up about 8 a.m. outside the home of a..
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BBC News
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Swedish police say they have arrested three people in the capital, Stockholm, on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts and financing terror groups.
Earlier on Thursday, Norwegian police said they had arrested three people in the Norwegian capital, Oslo..
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CNN
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A bomb planted on a car carrying an Interior Ministry official exploded Sunday, killing the official and wounding two police officers who were accompanying him, a ministry official said. Lt. Col. Mohammed Ibrahim worked in National Police Affairs, the off..
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CNN
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At least 25 students were taken hostage in northwest Pakistan Monday by a group of five or six suspected criminals being pursued by police, police told CNN.
The incident happened in the district of Bannu near the town of Karak in Paksitan's North West..
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BBC News
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Kenya's police have fired into the air to disperse opposition supporters in cities across the country on the second day of protests against disputed polls.
A BBC correspondent says two people have been shot in Nairobi's Kibera slum and there are clashe..
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CNN
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Government troops fired at people who answered the Kenyan opposition's call for nationwide protests of the outcome of last month's presidential elections on Wednesday. Police shot three protesters in Kibera, a slum on the outskirts of Nairobi, a witness t..
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SF Gate
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A suicide bomber blew himself up among police deployed outside a court in eastern Pakistan ahead of a planned anti-government protest Thursday, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 70, officials and witnesses said.
The blast in front of La..
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BBC News
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Turkish police have detained four people over a car bomb attack which killed five people and injured 68 in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
The four are suspected of links to Thursday's bombing in the Kurdish-majority city, Turkish prosecutor Durdu..
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MSNBC
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A car bomb detonated in the middle of a busy market in central Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 64, police and hospital officials said.
At least one woman and a child were killed in the blast, a police officer said on conditio..
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BBC News
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At least 38 people have been killed in a suicide attack on a mosque in north-western Pakistan, police say.
The explosion tore through the mosque, near the city of Peshawar, as about 1,000 people offered prayers for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha...
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