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Volatile mix of politics and crime plagues Karachi (Reuters)

November 15th, 2010

Reuters - If you want to measure the level of political strife in Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi, take the body count at the morgue.

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Dutchman to do crime scene walk-through in Peru (AP)

June 8th, 2010

**CORRECTS CAPITALIZATION IN NAME: V IS CAPITALIZED **FILE -- In a June 4, 2010 file photo Dutch citizen Joran Van der Sloot is escorted by police officers outside a Peruvian police station, near the border with Chile in Tacna, Peru. Peruvian police said Tuesday June 7, 2010 Dutchman Joran Van der Sloot has confessed to killing a young woman in his Lima hotel room last week. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro/file)AP - Peruvian police plan to take Joran van der Sloot, who they say has confessed to last week’s killing of a 21-year-old business student in his Lima hotel room,…

SKorea ship sinking may be perfect crime for North (AP)

April 29th, 2010

South Korean mourners arrive to pay a tribute in front of portraits of the deceased sailors from the sunken South Korean naval ship Cheonan during a memorial service held at Seoul City Hall Plaza in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 29, 2010. South Korea honored 46 sailors Thursday with a tearful military funeral a month after a blast sank their warship, and officials vowed retaliation for those responsible as speculation mounted that North Korea may have torpedoed the vessel. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - For North Korea, the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship a month ago may end up being the perfect crime.


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More than 7,000 protest crime wave in Mexico (AP)

March 28th, 2010

AP - More than 7,000 people have gathered in the northern Mexico city of Monterrey to protest a wave of violence that has affected the country’s third largest city in…

Afghan: Marjah chief’s crime record will be probed (AP)

March 6th, 2010

In this Feb. 22, 2010 photo released by the United States Agency for International Development, Abdul Zahir speaks to locals during a shura, or meeting, in Marjah, Afghanistan. Abdul Zahir, appointed as the new civilian chief in Marjah just seized from the Taliban, has a violent criminal record in Germany, but Western officials said Saturday, March 6, 2010, they are not pushing to oust him. (AP Photo/United States Agency for International Development, Rory Donohoe)AP - Afghan government officials are not rushing to oust the man they chose to bring fresh and credible governance to a town just seized from the Taliban, but his…

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