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Kenyan court says police cannot deploy to Haiti mission

Kenyan court says police cannot deploy to Haiti mission

A Kenyan court rejected a plan to send police officers to Haiti to lead a U.N.-approved mission, throwing into doubt the future of an initiative aimed at tackling gang violence in the Caribbean nation. An opposition party in October challenged the government's decision to send 1,000 officers to address a deepening crisis in Haiti, where gang violence killed nearly 5,000 people and forced around 200,000 from their homes last year. Kenya had hoped to have its officers in Haiti as soon as this month after the United Nations Security Council approved the mission in October, but a court issued a stay on…
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Swedish PM summons army, police chiefs as gang violence rocks nation

Swedish PM summons army, police chiefs as gang violence rocks nation

Sweden's prime minister summoned the head of the armed forces and the police commissioner to stem gang violence, he said, following a wave of violence that has taken at least 11 lives in September alone. Two people were killed in separate shootings in Stockholm on Wednesday, and a woman in her 20s considered an innocent bystander, was killed when a bomb tore up a house in Uppsala in the early hours of Thursday. "This is a difficult time for Sweden. A 25-year-old woman went to bed last night on a completely ordinary evening but never got to wake up," Prime…
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