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Gunmen block roads after Mexican drug lord killed (Reuters)

November 6th, 2010

President Barack Obama voiced support for Mexican President Felipe Calderon, pictured in September 2010, on Saturday in the wake of an operation in which a leader of one of Mexico's biggest drug cartels was killed in a shootout with soldiers.(AFP/File/Ronaldo Schemidt)Reuters - Rival gunmen blocked roads near the U.S. border and strung up threatening banners on Saturday after marines killed one of Mexico’s top drug kingpins in a government crackdown…

Iraq church raid ends with 52 dead (Reuters)

November 1st, 2010

Iraqi security forces survey the scene outside the Sayidat al-Nejat Catholic Cathedral in Baghdad. At least 37 Christians including two priests were killed in a US-led assault on a Baghdad cathedral to free dozens of hostages held by Al-Qaeda gunmen.(AFP/Sabah Arar)Reuters - Fifty-two hostages and police were killed when an attempt by Iraqi security forces to free more than 100 Catholics held in a Baghdad church by al Qaeda-linked gunmen…

Gunmen kill 14 on sports field in Honduras (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

Reuters - Gunmen opened fire on a group of people on a neighborhood sports field in northern Honduras and killed at least 14, authorities said on Saturday.

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Gunmen kill 13 in massacre at a party in Mexico (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

Mexican federal police officers stand outside a home after the exterior gate was covered with a plastic tarp in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Friday Oct. 22, 2010. At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on this house during a party in Ciudad Juarez, the second such massacre in less than a week in the violent border city. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)AP - Gunmen stormed two neighboring homes and massacred 13 young people at a birthday party in the latest large-scale attack in this violent border city, even as a new…

Gunmen storm Parliament in Chechnya, 6 dead (AP)

October 19th, 2010

Special Force (OMON) officers are seen in front of Chechen parliament complex after a bomb blast in Grozny, Chechnya, southern Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Insurgents stormed the parliament complex in Russia's volatile Chechnya region on Tuesday, killing at least 2 police officers and one parliamentary official, authorities said. At least three insurgents were also killed, ending the attack, they said. One insurgent set off a bomb at the gates of the parliament complex in the provincial capital, killing himself and wounding others, Chechen police spokesman Ramzam Bekkhoyev told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)AP - Islamic insurgents including a suicide bomber stormed Chechnya’s Parliament on Tuesday, leaving six people dead and 17 injured in one of the most brazen attacks on the provincial…

Gunmen storm Chechen government buildings (AP)

October 19th, 2010

Special Force (OMON) officers are seen in front of Chechen parliament complex after a bomb blast in Grozny, Chechnya, southern Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Insurgents stormed the parliament complex in Russia's volatile Chechnya region on Tuesday, killing at least 2 police officers and one parliamentary official, authorities said. At least three insurgents were also killed, ending the attack, they said. One insurgent set off a bomb at the gates of the parliament complex in the provincial capital, killing himself and wounding others, Chechen police spokesman Ramzam Bekkhoyev told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)AP - Insurgents stormed the parliament complex in Russia’s volatile Chechnya region on Tuesday, killing at least 2 police officers and one parliamentary official, and injuring 17 others, authorities said.…

Police: Gunmen storm Chechen government buildings (AP)

October 19th, 2010

Relatives mourn Gusalov Alan, 42, killed in a suicide car attack in a square outside a market in Vladikavkaz, North Caucasus, Saturday, Sept., 11, 2010. The Thursday bombing on the edge of the central market of the capital of the North Ossetia republic where a suicide car bombing killed 17 people and wounded more than 140 was the most serious terrorist attack in Russia since the March subway bombings in Moscow that killed 40. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - A Russian police spokesman says at least six people are dead after insurgents stormed the Chechen parliament complex, including the insurgents and two others.


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Afghan gunmen kill 9 guards protecting NATO convoy (AP)

October 18th, 2010

A man injured in a roadside bomb blast lies on a stretcher in a hospital in Herat city, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. Three civilians died in the blast, police said. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - Gunmen killed nine Afghan workers who were guarding a NATO supply convoy in the south of the country, police said Monday.


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Gunmen kill 21 in Pakistan’s largest city (AP)

October 17th, 2010

In this Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010 photo, an injured victim of shooting incident is brought to a local hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. Gunmen have killed at least 21 people in Karachi in the past 24 hours, raising tensions in Pakistan's largest city as voters headed to the polls Sunday to elect a replacement for a provincial lawmaker assassinated earlier this year. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)AP - Gunmen have killed at least 21 people in Karachi in the past 24 hours, raising tensions in Pakistan’s largest city as voters cast ballots Sunday for a replacement…

Mexican marine, 3 gunmen killed in shootout (AP)

October 15th, 2010

Forensic officers walk toward the crime scene after a shootout between unknown gunmen and soldiers on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, late Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010. According to the local media, at least five gunmen and a soldier were killed during the shootout. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)AP - Mexican marines battled suspected drug cartel gunmen whose allies erected at least a dozen roadblocks in the northeastern city of Monterrey, authorities said Friday. One marine and three…

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