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By AFP
Washington -
The arrest of 13 men in a plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan and "instigate a civil war" placed a fresh spotlight on the growth of armed, right-wing extremist "militias" under the administration of President Donald Trump.
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By AFP
Washington -
The US Justice Department announced Wednesday it is using terrorism charges for the first time to indict a member of the notoriously violent MS-13 gang.
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By AFP
Sansalvador -
Since his arrival in office in June, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has stepped up the country's war on criminal gangs, an effort that is bearing fruit according to experts who point to a falling murder rate.The country of 6.
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By AFP
Lagos -
Four Chinese sailors who were kidnapped last month in the port of Libreville, the capital of Gabon, have been released, the Chinese consulate in Lagos said.
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By AFP
New York -
Investigators have arrested more than 230 suspected MS-13 gang members in New York, Baltimore and El Salvador, US officials announced Friday, in a move celebrated by President Donald Trump.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
Young Central American asylum seekers fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries are increasingly falling prey to the notorious MS-13 gang in the United States, authorities say.
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By AFP
Port-au-prince -
As the first bursts of gunfire rang out, the women from La Saline slum grabbed their kids and fled for cover.
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Sansalvador -
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said on Sunday that security measures implemented by his government would do away with the country's long-running gang problem in four years.
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By AFP
Stockholm -
Honour, debts, and prestige are serving as the pretext for an increasing number of deadly shootings that challenge the ideals of equality and social harmony on which modern Sweden was built.
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By AFP
Melbourne -
Some of Australia's most dangerous criminals could have their convictions overturned after revelations their defence lawyer was secretly feeding information to police.
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By AFP
Chalatenango -
Some 1,700 imprisoned gang members in El Salvador claiming to be turning around their lives in a rehabilitation program have a message for US President Donald Trump: they're neither "terrorists" nor "animals.
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By AFP
Sansalvador -
Salvadoran police said Monday they had struck a "heavy blow" against the Central American country's violent MS-13 gang, arresting 117 members for a raft of crimes from murder to extortion.
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By AFP
Apo -
Police have detained more than 60 suspects and seized thousands of cannabis plants in a major operation against Albanian gangsters spanning Belgium, France and the Netherlands, Belgian prosecutors said Friday.
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By AFP
Berlin -
Berlin crime gangs of Arab origin have long earned infamy with violence and brazen robberies but now, police warn, they have targeted a new generation of refugees for recruitment.
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By AFP
Caserio Montepeque -
Mauricio Vilanova is no typical small-town mayor. The 60-year-old patrols the streets of El Salvador's San Jose Guayabal in a 4x4 vehicle wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying an automatic rifle.
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By AFP
Soyapango -
Facing the majestic Chinchontepec volcano a seemingly bucolic path runs past a suburb of El Salvador's capital -- but this "devil's alley" is nothing but a strip of homes emptied by gang violence and swallowed by tropical vegetation.
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Los Angeles -
The Los Angeles Police Department's Hollywood Station had dozens of firearms spread out on tables this week - all seized in a six-month undercover sting against LA-area gangs.
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By AFP
Sansalvador -
Prosecutors in El Salvador said Monday they had detained a man over the November killing of a cameraman and arrested more than 200 gang members in an overnight sweep following another journalist's murder.
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By AFP
Cape Town -
With rifles raised, South African police speed through the streets of Manenberg, responding to yet another call to quell violence in one of the country's most murderous ganglands.
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By AFP
Stockholm -
A powerful explosion blew out the entrance to a police station in the southern Swedish city of Helsingborg early Wednesday, an attack authorities linked to their fight against organised crime.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
Shoot-outs between drug gangs left at least six people dead over the weekend in two Rio de Janeiro favelas, the latest in a flare-up of violence in recent months.
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By AFP
Sansalvador -
Central America's "northern triangle" -- consisting of its most crime-ridden nations -- waged a coordinated crackdown this week on two major gangs infamous for extortion, murder and violence: Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18.
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By AFP
Guatemala City -
Guatemalan police and prosecutors on Monday arrested at least 170 people suspected of belonging to gang-linked groups that extorted money from shopkeepers and bus companies under threats of violence and murder, officials said.
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By AFP
Abidjan -
Vieux-Pere runs his fingers through his patchy hair as he remembers escaping being lynched."The locals caught me and hit me everywhere, I still have scars on my skull," he says."That's why I can't get my hair right," he says with a laugh.
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By AFP
Brentwood -
President Donald Trump traveled to a crime-afflicted New York town Friday, seeking to magnify the threat from Latino gangs and encouraging police to dole out rough justice.
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By AFP
Brentwood -
President Donald Trump on Friday will visit a New York suburb traumatized by the violent street gang MS-13, which he has pledged to wipe out, but many in the Long Island community of Brentwood are wary of his motives.
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By AFP
Brentwood -
President Donald Trump on Friday will visit a New York suburb traumatized by the violent street gang MS-13, which he has pledged to wipe out, but many in the Long Island community of Brentwood are wary of his motives.
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By AFP
Brentwood -
The town of Brentwood on New York's Long Island may look like an oasis of calm away from the hustle and bustle of Manhattan. But behind its timber homes and neat front yards, terror lurks.
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By AFP
Washington -
President Donald Trump on Tuesday blamed -- without proof -- his predecessor Barack Obama for allowing the MS-13 criminal gang to take root in US cities.
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By AFP
Tegucigalpa -
The clatter of bullets piercing the school's roof sent pupils running for safety. Four of them and their teacher were wounded.
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The city of Chicago, which has seen a spike in homicides. Daniel Schwen
File photo: 158 arrested in Utah's largest ever ICE-led gang enforcement action - 8/19/2010 ICE
Hotel Riu Emerald Bay in Mexico's Mazatlan resort region, where on Saturday, January 21, 2012, a young Canadian woman in her 20s, was found very badly beaten and unconscious in an elevator Riu
File photo: 158 arrested in Utah's largest ever ICE-led gang enforcement action - 8/19/2010 ICE
Reuters Pictures of the Year 2013: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford responds to the Toronto police investigation dubbed "Project Brazen 2" to the media at City Hall in Toronto With permission by Reuters / Mark Blinch
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