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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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CNN
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A hijacker armed with explosives took 10 Australian tourists hostage on a bus in northwest China Wednesday, before police shot him dead, media in both countries reported.
The man released all but two of the hostages shortly after taking them captive, b..
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BBC News
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A teenage boy has died after being shot outside a school in the Canadian city of Toronto, police said.
Officials said the 14-year-old died in hospital after being shot at the CW Jefferys Collegiate Institute.
Police forced students to remain in thei..
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CNN
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The Acapulco correspondent for Mexico's top television news network was shot to death late Friday, the latest in a wave of journalist killings that has made Mexico one of the most dangerous countries for reporters in the Western Hemisphere.
Televisa's..
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Times Online
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A Pakistani minister and woman’s activist has been shot dead by an Islamic extremist for refusing to wear the veil. Zilla Huma Usman, the minister for social welfare in Punjab province and an ally of President Pervez Musharraf, was killed as she was..
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BBC News
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Suspected Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand have burnt down three schools and shot and wounded a teacher...
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CNN
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A brown bear killed a tourist camping on an island off Russia's Far East coast on Thursday and was then shot by fellow campers, local police said.
Bears have come into increasing conflict with humans in remote regions of Russia as their natural habitat..
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BBC News
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Six Italian men have been shot dead near a train station in Duisburg, western Germany, an attack reports say could be linked to a criminal feud.
Five bodies were found in two cars outside an Italian restaurant, while a sixth man died on the way to hosp..
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CNN
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Japanese police have nabbed a former gangster, ending a more than 24-hour standoff during which the man shot a policeman dead after wounding his own son, daughter and another police officer and holing up in his suburban house.
Television footage Friday..
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FOX News
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A crocodile shot to death in south China during a search for a missing 9-year-old student was found to contain the child's remains, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The crocodile was shot Saturday in a park in Beihai, a city in the Guangxi region,..
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USA Today
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On Thursday, the day after a man shot to death a pizzeria worker and two unarmed, volunteer police officers before being killed himself by police, there were sights here of a different sort. People took pictures of bullet-riddled shop windows, peered past..
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BBC News
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Two circus clowns have been shot dead during a performance in the eastern Colombian city of Cucuta, police say. The attacker jumped into the arena and fired before fleeing, police chief Jose Humberto Henao told Efe news agency. Local reports say the..
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BBC News
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The bodies of six people - three men and three women - have been found in a Chinese restaurant in the town of Sittensen, in northern Germany...
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Yahoo News
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A grey wolf weighing 80 kilogrammes (176.4 pounds), has been reportedly shot dead in northwestern Bulgaria, which if confirmed would make it the biggest wolf ever recorded...
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ABC News
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A woman was released from the hospital a day after she was shot in the head six times in an attack police blamed on her ex-husband, Brazilian media reported Saturday...
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New York Times
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The bullet passed through Lance Cpl. Juan Valdez-Castillo as his Marine patrol moved down a muddy urban lane. It was a single shot. The lance corporal fell against a wall, tried to stand and fell again...
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