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US Knew About Indonesia 'Slaughter' In 1960, Secret Files Show
The US government was fully aware of a bloody anti-communist purge by the Indonesian army in the 1960s, with one diplomat at the time describing the bloodletting as "widespread slaughter", recently declassified documents have revealed.
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Donald Trump On Egypt Attack: 'Bloodletting Of Christians Must End'
President Donald Trump on Friday decried an attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt that left at least 28 dead, calling on allies to band together to defeat terrorism.
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Pope Francis To Visit Mexican State Ravaged By Brutal Drug Violence
Pope Francis takes his Mexican tour to the country's gang-infested heartland on Tuesday to bolster a message of peace and reconciliation in the face of a decade of bloodletting that the government has been unable to stop.
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9 Killed in Burundi Attack As Police Launch Crackdown
Gunmen executed nine people in Burundi's capital hours before police launched house-to-house searches for weapons today, amid international fears of fresh bloodletting in the central African nation.
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Suspected Boko Haram Insurgents Step Up Attacks in Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked the outskirts of a state capital in northeastern Nigeria on Friday, escalating their attacks after a week of bloodletting in which more than 150 people were killed, military sources said.
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War of Words as Armenians Fight For Genocide Recognition a Century On
Mass killings? Mutual bloodletting? Genocide? The hundreds of thousands of dead have been silent for a century, but generations on, Armenians are still battling to get the World War I slaying of their ancestors recognised as a genocide.
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Paris Shooting Cases Demonstrate Spy Agencies' Limits
This week's deadly attacks in France by Islamist gunmen showed the limits of spy and anti-terrorist agencies, which often have information about perpetrators in advance but are only able to assemble all the clues after the bloodletting has taken place.
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Wave of attacks kills at least 57 in Iraq
A string of car bombs and shootings tore through Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting, officials said
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Turnout in landmark Kenya poll tops 70 per cent
Kenyans turned out en masse on Monday for the first presidential poll since disputed results triggered a wave of bloodletting five years ago, with all eyes on tallying after a close but peaceful race.
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Kyrgyz violence was well planned: UN investigators
Violence ebbed on June 15 and people began emerging from their barricaded homes in Kyrgyzstan's ethnically torn south, as evidence mounted that days of brutal bloodletting had been deliberately organized to ignite long-running tensions between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks.
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US Knew About Indonesia 'Slaughter' In 1960, Secret Files Show
The US government was fully aware of a bloody anti-communist purge by the Indonesian army in the 1960s, with one diplomat at the time describing the bloodletting as "widespread slaughter", recently declassified documents have revealed.
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Donald Trump On Egypt Attack: 'Bloodletting Of Christians Must End'
President Donald Trump on Friday decried an attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt that left at least 28 dead, calling on allies to band together to defeat terrorism.
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Pope Francis To Visit Mexican State Ravaged By Brutal Drug Violence
Pope Francis takes his Mexican tour to the country's gang-infested heartland on Tuesday to bolster a message of peace and reconciliation in the face of a decade of bloodletting that the government has been unable to stop.
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9 Killed in Burundi Attack As Police Launch Crackdown
Gunmen executed nine people in Burundi's capital hours before police launched house-to-house searches for weapons today, amid international fears of fresh bloodletting in the central African nation.
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Suspected Boko Haram Insurgents Step Up Attacks in Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked the outskirts of a state capital in northeastern Nigeria on Friday, escalating their attacks after a week of bloodletting in which more than 150 people were killed, military sources said.
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War of Words as Armenians Fight For Genocide Recognition a Century On
Mass killings? Mutual bloodletting? Genocide? The hundreds of thousands of dead have been silent for a century, but generations on, Armenians are still battling to get the World War I slaying of their ancestors recognised as a genocide.
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Paris Shooting Cases Demonstrate Spy Agencies' Limits
This week's deadly attacks in France by Islamist gunmen showed the limits of spy and anti-terrorist agencies, which often have information about perpetrators in advance but are only able to assemble all the clues after the bloodletting has taken place.
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Wave of attacks kills at least 57 in Iraq
A string of car bombs and shootings tore through Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting, officials said
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Turnout in landmark Kenya poll tops 70 per cent
Kenyans turned out en masse on Monday for the first presidential poll since disputed results triggered a wave of bloodletting five years ago, with all eyes on tallying after a close but peaceful race.
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Kyrgyz violence was well planned: UN investigators
Violence ebbed on June 15 and people began emerging from their barricaded homes in Kyrgyzstan's ethnically torn south, as evidence mounted that days of brutal bloodletting had been deliberately organized to ignite long-running tensions between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks.
