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Brazil: Armed men dressed as police free suspects in Rio
Delaware City :: DE :: USA | 9 days ago
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They then overpowered the two officers guarding nearly 150 suspects at the station on Rio's north side. (AP)
Tags: police officers, Rio de Janeiro, armed men, men dressed, Delaware City, Law enforcement, Police, War Conflict
Mauritania: Spanish aid workers 'kidnapped by Al-Qaeda'
Nouakchott :: Mauritania | 9 days ago
Credibility Three Spanish aid workers have been kidnapped in Mauritania by militants linked to Al-Qaeda, Spain's interior minister said on Monday. "It all suggests that it is a kidnapping. If so, and I believe it is, it all appears to be a kidnapping by Al-Qaeda...
Tags: aid workers, Mauritania, Nouadhibou, workers kidnapping, Nouakchott, deliver supplies, capital nouakchott, armed men, Spain, humanitarian aid, War Conflict, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Algerian Civil War, West Africa, Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, Islamic terrorism, Outline of Mauritania, Al-Qaeda, Armed Islamic Group of Algeria, Coupe du Prￃﾩsident de la Rￃﾩpublique, Communes of Mauritania, Edwin Dyer, CNN, Alfredo Pￃﾩrez Rubalcaba, Cantabrian people, Nouakchott suicide bombing, killing of French tourists in Mauritania, Subdivisions of Mauritania, Irregular military, Islam in Algeria, ETA
Prisoner on the lam after armed men break him out of custody at Ont. hospital
Hamilton :: Canada | 15 days ago
Credibility Police were scouring the city of Hamilton for a prisoner on the lam after a daring and almost certainly planned escape that saw two masked and armed men bust him out of custody outside a hospital Tuesday morning...Hamilton General Hospital in the late...
Tags: Hamilton General Hospital, armed men, Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre, Canada, Hamilton, Law Crime, Toronto Police Service, Tim Hortons, Law enforcement, Shootout, Canadian culture, Robberies, Wendy's International, Prisoner, Special Investigations Unit, Nouri, Murder, S&P/TSX 60 Index
2,000 attend meeting on power lines
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 15 days ago
Credibility Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin, who last week gave explosive testimony about the possible torture of detainees captured by the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan, sent reports about the issue to the office of the minister of foreign affairs. Hundreds of...
Tags: Montreal, Amnesty International Canada, Hamilton, armed men, Toronto District School Board, raided locations, major airports, major crackdown, montreal regions, police office, Afghanistan, Kabul, Human rights abuses, Politics, Bombs, Franchises, Rexall, Grenades, Edmonton, ETA, Molotov cocktail, Toronto Raptors, Childhood, Bolduc, War Conflict, Leyen, Cocktail, Kindergarten, War in Afghanistan, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Indiana Pacers
Copper Mesa sued for alleged assault
Junín :: Argentina | 17 days ago
Credibility Locals protesting a Canadian company mining in Junin, Ecuador, allege in a lawsuit that they were confronted at a makeshift barricade and pepper sprayed...Nineteen billion pounds of it, according to Vancouver's Copper Mesa Mining Corp. The rich deposits...
Tags: TSX Inc., Copper Mesa Mining Corp, TSX Group, Ecuadorean, Junin, armed men, pepper sprayed, Polivio Perez, Israel Perez, Canadian Supreme Court Justice, Argentina, Junín, Copper, Economic history of Canada, Vale Inco, Toronto Stock Exchange
Trader with debts kidnapped in Lanao Sur
Manila :: Philippines | 28 days ago
Credibility A businessman was taken by at least 15 armed men in Mulondo, Lanao del Sur, late Monday night, police said on Wednesday. The abduction of Sambolayan Bamrang Macapanton, 29, happened a few hours before suspected Abu Sayyaf members raided a saw mill in...
Tags: armed men
Abu beheading a ‘retaliation’ vs AFP, PNP—Palace
Manila :: Philippines | 29 days ago
Credibility The beheading of a school principal by the Abu Sayyaf Group could have been a retaliatory move over the success of the military and police against the Muslim extremist group and not against any personality, a Malaca�ang official said Tuesday. �Mas nakikita...
Tags: school principal, Southern Philippines, Abu Sayyaf Group, Basilan Island, armed men, AFP, Jolo Island, Maluso, Ronaldo Puno, armed forces
US military fuel tankers set on fire in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Eyewitnesses in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar say that a group of Taliban militants attacked a convoy of US military tankers around the provincial capital of Jalal Abad on Sunday, torching three out of the five tankers around a local tunnel...
Tags: Kabul-Nangarhar, E. Afghanistan, armed men
Irish priest kidnapped in Pagadian City
Manila :: Philippines | about 1 month ago
Credibility An Irish missionary was snatched by six armed men inside the Columban House in Gatas District in Pagadian City around 7:20 p.m...Angel Sunglao, Western Mindanao police chief, said the six kidnappers forcibly entered the Columban House and took Father...
Tags: NFA Zamboanga Peninsula, Pagadian City, Western Mindanao, Michael Sinnott, Philippines, Angelo Sunglao, armed men, southern philippine, police commander, islamic militants
Pro-government forces capture Somali town
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 3 months ago
Credibility In a surprise move from Dolo District at the border between Somalia and Ethiopia, forces loyal to the Transitional Federal Government captured the strategic town of Bulo Hawa, 520 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu. Technical vehicles (battle wagons mounted...
Tags: Somalia, Wajid, southern somalia, aid compound, U.N., security guards, Peter Smerdon, somalia attack, armed men, Mogadishu
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