American Nun Shot Dead in Brazil's Amazon
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BELEM, Brazil  - A 74-year-old American nun was  shot to death early on Saturday in Brazil's Amazon jungle,  where she worked for decades to defend peasant farmers and the  rain forest from illegal loggers and ranchers.
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - A Brazilian soldier with the  U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti was shot and wounded Saturday  when peacekeepers and local police faced gunfire in a crackdown  on armed gangs in the Haitian capital.
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A member of a government task force working to stop illegal diamond mining on Indian reservations in the Amazon was shot dead at an ATM, authorities said.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Leftist guerrillas shot and  killed a Catholic parish priest in a jungle area of northwest  Colombia, church officials said on Friday.
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By Leonardo Pedro BELEM, Brazil  - A 74-year-old American nun wasshot to death early on Saturday in Brazil's Amazon jungle,where she worked for decades to defend peasant farmers and therain forest from illegal loggers and ranchers.
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the second UN peacekeeper to be shot in Haiti over the weekend. On Saturday a Brazilian was hurt in the capital
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OIMBRA, Portugal, FEB. 15, 2005 .- The death of Sister Lucia, the last of the Fatima visionaries, is considered by many Portuguese bishops to be the passing away of a real "example of faith." The ...
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Honduran authorities say at least 23 people have been killed in an attack by gunmen on a public bus. The shooting took place in a northern Atlantic city (Chamelecon) about 125 miles north
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Searchers found dozens of bodies at the Amazon site of Brazil's worst airplane disaster on Tuesday and started to fly remains to the capital as investigators tried to determine how two planes collided.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection yesterday in a region known for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers, and environmentalists.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- As mourners laid her bullet-riddled body to rest yesterday, environmentalists and colleagues of slain missionary Dorothy Stang seesawed between fragile optimism and angry skepticism over a question they had hoped never to consider.
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Police searched Sunday for four people suspected in the slaying of a 74-year-old American nun - the most prominent activist gunned down in the Amazon since the 1988 murder of Chico Mendes.
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NICKEL MINES, Penn.  - A gunman killed three schoolgirls execution style and then shot himself dead on Monday after bursting into a one-room Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania, police said.
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Rescuers search for victims after a ship capsizes in the Amazon region of Brazil, killing at least 15 people.
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An American man was shot to death in a bar fight with a Brazilian policeman, police said Saturday.
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NEW YORK -- A US Marine shot and killed a wounded and apparently unarmed Iraqi prisoner in a mosque in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, according to pool television pictures broadcast yesterday. A Marine spokesman in Washington said the shooting was under investigation.
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A Brazilian judge clamped a curfew on a small Amazon River town Saturday after residents tried to lynch a man who confessed he killed two girls.