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Rescue workers look on as a cage is lifted from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein on January 16, 2025.

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  • Africa

A South African horror story: illegal mining stand-off draws to an end

In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

January 17, 2025
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  • Kate Bartlett
Police officers man a checkpoint checking for weapons, in the Petionville area of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.

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  • World

Residents in Haiti's capital stand with police in a battle to repel gang attack

Residents have been angered by the latest gang attacks. Violence forced Haiti's main airport to shut down last week after the country swore in a new prime minister.

November 20, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Jimmy Chérizier, a former elite police officer known as Barbecue, who now runs a Haitian gang federation.

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  • World

Haiti's notorious gang leader, Barbecue, says his forces are ready for a long fight

Barbecue is the man who convinced many of Haiti's gangs to stop fighting each other and start fighting the government. He spoke to NPR about his latest plans.

May 13, 2024
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By:
  • Eyder Peralta
Michel Patrick Boisvert (center), who was named interim prime minister by outgoing Prime Minister Ariel Henry, attends the swearing-in ceremony of the transitional council tasked with selecting Haiti's new prime minister and cabinet, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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  • World

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned as a transitional council takes over

Haiti's de facto prime minister, Ariel Henry, has formally stepped down and a new transitional council has been sworn in. Finance chief Michel Patrick Boisvert is the new interim prime minister.

April 25, 2024
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  • Eyder Peralta
An aerial view of Chicago. In the past few days, at least six high school students in the city have been shot outside their schools.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Their deaths leave holes that will never be filled

A string of shooting deaths of Chicago high-schoolers shocks and saddens, despite a decrease in the city's homicide rate.

February 04, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
Banner with the face of President Nayib Bukele on the roof of the pupusas restaurant of Arnulfo Crisostomo Mazariego in San Salvador on Jan. 29.

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  • Latin America

Why the 'world's coolest dictator' is on course for a landslide win in El Salvador

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele has won plaudits both at home and abroad for his indiscriminate security crackdown that has seen more than 1% of the country's population put in prison.

February 02, 2024
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  • Emily Green
police car

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  • News

Gang Prosecution Unit scores 52-count indictment in Fulton County

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr Wednesday announced his office’s Gang Prosecution Unit has secured a 52-count indictment charging three alleged gang members with a variety of drug and weapons offenses.

October 19, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
handcuffs

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  • News

Georgia anti-gangs bill to become law July 1

Controversial legislation imposing mandatory minimum prison terms for gang recruitment in Georgia will take effect July 1.

June 26, 2023
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  • Dave Williams

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  • News

Southeast Georgia investigation leads to indictment of 16 alleged gang members

Law enforcement officials have announced the largest indictment of a motorcycle gang in Georgia history.

June 08, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
The future middle Georgia home of the GBI Gang Task Force, the Bibb County government known by some as "The Castle."

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  • Law

Macon-Bibb County and the GBI ink deal for a regional gang task force headquarters

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is moving the headquarters of the Middle Georgia branch of the state’s Gang Task Force into a fortress-like Macon-Bibb County government building known by many simply as “The Castle.” 

April 21, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
Rep.  Soo Hong (R - Lawrenceville) presents SB 44 on the House Floor.

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  • Politics

Lawmakers: Bill increasing gang recruitment penalties heads to Kemp's Desk on Day 36

The Georgia House approved a bill that would crack down on gang recruitment in the state. 

March 20, 2023
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  • Sarah Kallis

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  • Law

New bill would set mandatory minimum sentences for gang recruitment

Georgia lawmakers want to increase the sentence for gang recruitment activities as part of a tough-on-crime push under the Gold Dome this legislative session.  

February 01, 2023
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  • Rebecca Grapevine
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks during an interview at her office, Feb. 24, 2021, in Atlanta. The prosecutor who's investigating whether Donald Trump and others broke the law by trying to pressure Georgia officials to overturn Joe Biden's presidential election victory is asking the FBI for security help after the former president railed against prosecutors investigating him.

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  • News

Atlanta prosecutor: Gang targeted celebrities, influencers

A prosecutor in Atlanta has announced a sprawling indictment targeting members of what she called a violent street gang that targeted the homes of famous athletes, entertainers and others.

August 30, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Military guard a custody center in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Tuesday.

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  • Latin America

El Salvador grabs 1,000 gang suspects in response to weekend killings

The government declared a state of emergency and locked down prisons after more than 80 murders were committed Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

March 29, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Sheriff Alex Villanueva of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. At least 41 Los Angeles County deputies have been identified as being tattooed members of the Banditos or Executioners gangs, according to the county's inspector general.

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  • Law

Alleged gangs in the LA Sheriff's Department to be investigated by oversight panel

At least 41 deputies have been uncovered as being involved in gangs, according to the LA County inspector general. The civilian overnight board says it's a problem that has existed for decades.

March 25, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
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