Thailand's bloody Muslim insurgency deeply rooted

While Thai authorities are preoccupied with riots in the capital, a five-year-old Muslim uprising in the south of the country is intensifying, and Thailand's troubled government and army are at odds about how to deal with it.

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5 police killed trying to defuse Ingushetia bomb

Authorities say five policemen have been killed trying to defuse a bomb in the restive Russian region of Ingushetia.

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Boycott of violent video game urged in NYC

Anti-violence advocates are taking a stand against a video game in which players stalk and rape a mother and her two daughters.

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1,000 Indonesians protest demonstrator's death

About 1,000 Indonesian protesters angered by a student demonstrator's death after his arrest burned cars and hurled stones at police guarding the Parliament on Tuesday, witnesses said.

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Is Violent Reputation Hurting N'Orleans?

The small group gathers each Tuesday night on the same vacant lot. They stand silently in a circle, holding hands and pausing two seconds for each person who's died violently in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina tore the city apart.

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Dolce & Gabbana Rapped Over Knife Ad

A British watchdog agency criticized Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana on Wednesday for ads that showed models aggressively brandishing knives.

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Iraq Deaths Multiply in New August Count

Updated figures from Iraq's Health Ministry show there was no significant decline in violent deaths in Baghdad last month, but the U.S. military insisted Thursday the murder rate in the capital had fallen by 52 percent.

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Hitler's Globe Highlights New Exhibit

The globe Adolf Hitler gazed upon while contemplating world domination is in remarkably good condition but for one blemish — the bullet hole directly through Berlin, inflicted by a Soviet soldier after the Nazi dictator's defeat in 1945.

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Stressed Mexican Police Chief Resigns

The former police chief of the border city of Nuevo Laredo on Friday said he resigned because he was tired from the stress of working in a city dominated by drug cartels fighting a bloody turf war.

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Cartoons should be given movie-style age ratings to protect children from the violence shown in programmes such as Scooby Doo and Batman, a child safety expert has warned.

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Nicola Sutton, 22, was living in fear of Barry Stone when he was released after serving only six months of an 18-month sentence for attacking her.

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A sweatpants-wearing 26-year-old has been charged with theft after knocking a more formally dressed citizen to the ground and removing his jeans.

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Police have smashed an elderly gang of suspected kidnappers aged between 60 and 79 preying on Germany's greying population.

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A British tourist has had his passport stolen in New Zealand by a brazen thief with a reputation for violence -- a large wild parrot known as the kea.

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WRITING in a well-known American daily a former CIA agent suggests that Washington should press Kabul to sign a deal that would allow Afghans linked with the heroin trade to be tried in the United States.

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More than 24 hours after authorities began searching for two men who escaped from the Putnam County Jail, the invstigation expanded to include two stolen vehicles and the suspicious death of the 66-year-old stepgrandmother of one of the escapees.

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SHELBY --- How does it feel to have a thumb lodged in your eye socket? "That hurts," said Cass Robert Davis, of Scottsdale Drive. Davis, 31, knows all too well.

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A Stockholm-area businessman has been charged for using the internet to pimp Swedish school girls for violent group sex.

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Excerpt: A crazed mob beats an accused rapist with baseball bats before setting him on fire. Soldiers open fire on a crowd in Cote d'Ivoire, and a bystander films the bloodied corpses in close-up.

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An angry judge says he will place a violent sexual predator somewhere in Monterey County without public notification, and he threatens to arrest anyone leaking information in the case.

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HUDSON — A Claverack man with a history of domestic violence was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life for murdering his wife.

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Excerpt: Nothing says tough love like Velcro handcuffs. Cops trying to restrain children will have a softer alternative than metal handcuffs under a new program the NYPD is testing in nearly two dozen schools.

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A fight between two family pit bulls resulted in both dogs being killed after they bit their owners as they tried to separate them. Bruce Evans shot the canines belonging to his wife and daughter about 10:35 a.m. Monday.

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Excerpt: Two St. Petersburg police officers shot and killed a 40-year-old woman who appeared about to stab another woman with a large barbecue fork Tuesday night.

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DELAND -- A brothers' battle over a pair of jeans ended when the younger brother whacked his older brother in the back of the head with a tire iron, Volusia County sheriff's officials said Friday.

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Excerpt: A 16-year-old Laurel girl threatened her parents with two large kitchen knives early Sunday after her father confiscated her cell phone.

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--Mug shot of security guard on link page.-- Excerpt: A security guard stabbed a teenager who refused to leave the lobby of a Valley Stream multiplex after a showing of "My Bloody Valentine 3-D,"cops said Monday.

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A man suspected in a series of violent check cashing robberies was arrested Saturday morning without incident at a motel in Grove City, according to the FBI.

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Dallas police released a video of a December bank holdup, in which the gunman was shot dead by the bank security guard. The shooting and death was all captured on video.

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LOXAHATCHEE GROVES — Fireworks used to ring in the New Year instead led to a horrific scene at a local wildlife conservation center, officials said.

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A psychologically ill man escaped from a clinic in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia wielding a kitchen knife and kidnapped a woman in her car, police reported on Thursday.

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In 1971 Karenga, Louis Smith, and Luz Maria Tamayo were convicted of felony assault and false imprisonment for assaulting and torturing over a two day period two women from the US organization, Deborah Jones and Gail Davis.

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A wealthy property developer was subjected to an horrific 15-hour ordeal in his own home by burglars who tied him up and drilled holes in his legs.

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