Riot force leaves troubled Mexico tourist city
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OAXACA, Mexico  - Federal riot police ended their weeks-long occupation of the center of the Mexican tourist city Oaxaca on Saturday, having weakened a protest movement trying to oust a state governor.
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Dozens of senior police officers in Rio de Janeiro resigned on Wednesday to protest the dismissal of a commander, throwing the Brazilian city's security forces into crisis as its famed Carnival celebrations got under way.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Mexico sent hundreds of police reinforcements to the border city of Tijuana on Tuesday following a rash of organized crime killings and as Mexican media said two cops were shot dead in another northern town.
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Hundreds of police and federal agents raided a Mexico City suburb on Wednesday night after two officers were killed by an angry crowd.
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A Mexican newspaper shuts temporarily amid continuing attacks and threats from suspected  drugs gangs.
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Protesters have taken over the center of folkloric Oaxaca, making tourists show identification at makeshift checkpoints, smashing the windows of quaint hotels and spray-painting revolutionary slogans. Police are nowhere in sight.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday after fierce gunbattles erupted between security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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Mexican President-elect Felipe   Calderon views violent disturbances in the tourist city of   Oaxaca, where protesters are trying to oust the governor, as   the country's biggest challenge, a top aide said on Tuesday.
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A crowd  stone a group of police officers, triggering heavy clashes with security forces near Mexico City.
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Mexico's new government, struggling with rampant drug trafficking and crime, ordered thousands of troops to the western state of Michoacan on Monday to fight drug cartels locked in a vicious turf war.
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MEXICO CITY - Investigators have identified at least six people who were part of a mob that burned two policemen to death, the federal attorney general said Thursday.
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OAXACA, Mexico  - Hundreds of cars lined up at gas   stations in the protest-torn Mexican city of Oaxaca on   Wednesday as tensions rose before a 48-hour business shutdown   expected to bring the tourist hot spot to a standstill.
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URUAPAN, Mexico  - A morgue worker wheels the   mutilated remains of a pregnant woman past two severed heads --   all victims of a Mexican drug war that has descended into   barbarity and is terrorizing once-quiet towns.
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Inmates are carrying out vendettas inside prison walls, planning escapes and running their outside-world drug empires &#151; even at Mexico's highest-security penitentiaries, prompting Mexico City's mayor to call for the army to intervene.
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Tens of thousands of supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador headed to Mexico City on Wednesday, leaving mountain towns and sprawling industrial cities to demand a ballot-by-ballot recount.
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Families stroll along cobblestone streets. City employees plant poinsettias in the tree-covered main square. Children dodge in and out of the crowd in a rowdy game of tag. The southern Mexican city of Oaxaca is visibly returning to normal after six months of protests and clashes that killed at least nine people.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday as a battle raged between Iraqi security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.