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Turkish Mafia Among Key Targets In London's Massive Crime Crackdown, Says Police
London's Metropolitan Police have intensified action against organised crime, including Turkish-linked gangs, helping reduce the city's homicide rate to its lowest level in over a decade amid broader anti-violence strategies.
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Fact Check: President Trump Exaggerates, Misstates Facts On Washington Crime
President Donald Trump said Monday that his administration will take over policing the nation's capital city in what the Republican said is an effort to bring down rising crime rates in Washington, DC.
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"Non-Violent Escape Plan": Brazil Pastors Convert Gang Members On YouTube
As gang wars drive Brazil's homicide rate to historic highs, evangelical pastors - long revered in the nation's slums and prisons - have come up with a new way to protect members looking for a way out.
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The Country With The World's Worst Homicide Rate Now Grapples With Zika
The link between the Zika virus and microcephaly, a correlation discovered in Brazil, where some 4,000 babies have been born with the condition, has not yet been confirmed in El Salvador.
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Guns Are Now Killing As Many People As Cars In The US
For the first time in more than 60 years, firearms and automobiles are killing Americans at an identical rate, according to new mortality data released this month by the CDC. In 2014, the age-adjusted death rate for both firearms (including homicides, suicides and accidental deaths) and motor vehicle events (car crashes, collisions between cars and...
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1,200 Canada Aboriginal Women Killed, Missing: Police
Nearly 1,200 aboriginal women and girls have been murdered or are missing and presumed dead in Canada since the 1950s, federal police said Friday, the homicide rate dwarfing the national average.
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437,000 murdered worldwide in 2012: UN agency
Almost half a million people across the world lost their lives in 2012 as a result of intentional homicide, with the highest murder rates logged in the Americas and Africa, and the lowest in Europe, Asia and Oceania, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has said.
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Turkish Mafia Among Key Targets In London's Massive Crime Crackdown, Says Police
London's Metropolitan Police have intensified action against organised crime, including Turkish-linked gangs, helping reduce the city's homicide rate to its lowest level in over a decade amid broader anti-violence strategies.
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Fact Check: President Trump Exaggerates, Misstates Facts On Washington Crime
President Donald Trump said Monday that his administration will take over policing the nation's capital city in what the Republican said is an effort to bring down rising crime rates in Washington, DC.
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"Non-Violent Escape Plan": Brazil Pastors Convert Gang Members On YouTube
As gang wars drive Brazil's homicide rate to historic highs, evangelical pastors - long revered in the nation's slums and prisons - have come up with a new way to protect members looking for a way out.
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The Country With The World's Worst Homicide Rate Now Grapples With Zika
The link between the Zika virus and microcephaly, a correlation discovered in Brazil, where some 4,000 babies have been born with the condition, has not yet been confirmed in El Salvador.
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Guns Are Now Killing As Many People As Cars In The US
For the first time in more than 60 years, firearms and automobiles are killing Americans at an identical rate, according to new mortality data released this month by the CDC. In 2014, the age-adjusted death rate for both firearms (including homicides, suicides and accidental deaths) and motor vehicle events (car crashes, collisions between cars and...
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1,200 Canada Aboriginal Women Killed, Missing: Police
Nearly 1,200 aboriginal women and girls have been murdered or are missing and presumed dead in Canada since the 1950s, federal police said Friday, the homicide rate dwarfing the national average.
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437,000 murdered worldwide in 2012: UN agency
Almost half a million people across the world lost their lives in 2012 as a result of intentional homicide, with the highest murder rates logged in the Americas and Africa, and the lowest in Europe, Asia and Oceania, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has said.
