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CNN
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Nepalese police shot and killed a demonstrator Wednesday as he protested the killing of a political candidate a day earlier, police said. The demonstrator's death is the latest of several violent episodes in Nepal in advance of elections scheduled for Thu..
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SF Gate
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An express train crowded with holiday travelers derailed in southern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 58 people and leaving hundreds of terrified survivors to claw their way out of the wreckage in total darkness.
The train, which derailed at abo..
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MSNBC
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A package bearing homemade bombs blew up Thursday in a lawyer’s office on a stylish boulevard in central Paris, killing the woman who opened it. The motive for the unusual attack remained unclear.
The building also housed an unrelated law firm co-fou..
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Reuters
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A Kurdish woman was brutally raped, stamped on and strangled by members of her family and their friends in an "honor killing" carried out at her London home because she had fallen in love with the wrong man.
Banaz Mahmod, 20, was subjected to the 2-1/2..
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CNN
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A Canadian Forces Snowbirds jet crashed Friday during rehearsal for weekend performances at Malmstrom Air Force Base, killing the pilot, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The Canadian military identified the pilot as Capt. Shawn McCaughey, 31,..
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SF Gate
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A woman was convicted Monday of hiring a hit squad to murder her lover's baby daughter, ending a trial that had dominated headlines for months with details of South Africa's first known contract killing of an infant.
Dina Rodrigues was found guilty of..
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SF Gate
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A bone-rattling undersea earthquake sparked a tsunami that sent 10-foot-high waves crashing into parts of the Solomon Islands on Monday, wiping out one village and killing at least 13 people. The death toll was expected to rise.
Large waves struck the..
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BBC News
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This street in Beit Hanoun is very, very quiet indeed. It's just a matter of hours since a number of Israeli shells fell on houses in this area, killing 18 people, including six children and two women...
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Washington Post
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A helicopter crashed north of Baghdad early Monday, killing two American soldiers, the military announced...
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CNN
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Early in the Iraq conflict, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed insurgents as "dead-enders." In 2004, President Bush said the battle against these fighters was "turning a corner." In 2005, he described a "turning point," and Vice President D..
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MSNBC
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When the storm made landfall early Saturday at the mouth of the Irrawaddy River, its battering winds pushed a wall of water as high as 12 feet some 25 miles inland, laying waste to villages and killing tens of thousands.
Victims lived in the low-lying..
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Washington Post
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An upheaval like the pro-democracy uprising taking place in Burma over the past month tends to shake up certainties that had seemed self-evident. Certainties such as the primacy of justice. Or the sanctity of the Olympic Games.
Despite an academic indu..
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BBC News
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A man has gone on trial in Moscow accused of killing at least 49 people.
The Russian media has dubbed him the "Bitsevsky Maniac" after the park in southern Moscow where most of the murders were carried out.
The accused man, Alexander Pichushkin, far..
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CBS News
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Ten people have been arrested in the killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya and will be charged soon, the chief prosecutor said Monday.
"We have made serious progress in the case of the murder of the journalist Politkovskaya," Prosecuto..
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USA Today
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Ten people have been arrested in the killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya and will be charged soon, the chief prosecutor said Monday.
"We have made serious progress in this case," Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika told President Vladimir..
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CNN
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Some of the deadliest plane crashes in the last several years:
May 5, 2007: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashed in a swamp in Cameroon shortly after taking off from Douala, killing all 114 people aboard.
October 29, 2006: A Nigerian ADC Airlines..
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USA Today
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A father who ordered his daughter brutally slain for falling in love with the wrong man in a so-called "honor killing" was found guilty of murder on Monday.
Banaz Mahmod, 20, was strangled with a boot lace, stuffed into a suitcase and buried in a back..
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CNN
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Landslides triggered by heavy rains in western China buried a village and knocked a bus off a highway, killing a total of 21 people, news reports said Saturday.
A mudslide late Friday swept through the village of Heba in Garze, an ethnic Tibetan region..
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Al Jazeera
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Hired gun
The killer, Rayfran das Neves, his accomplice and an intermediary are already in prison serving between 18 and 27 years.
Das Neves had implicated Moura, saying he and another rancher gave them $25,000 and the gun used to kill Stang. But..
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BBC News
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A Brazilian rancher has been found guilty of killing US-born nun and environmental activist Dorothy Stang.
A court in the city of Belem sentenced Vitalmiro Bastos Moura, 36, to 30 years for paying gunmen to shoot the 73-year-old missionary dead in 2005..
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