As Sweden grapples with a decade-long rise in drug-related violence, questions are mounting over whether festival organizers should continue booking the country's top gangsta rap acts
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Ecuador captures ‘Fito’, country’s most wanted fugitive gang leader
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Swedish teenager charged in Australia for allegedly using encrypted communication apps to help plan contract killings in Sweden and Denmark
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Swedish companies join forces to steer children away from gang crime – dozens of big businesses from IKEA to Spotify back youth job initiatives as country grapples with epidemic of violence
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The short lives and violent deaths of Sweden's rappers – Swedish rap is a window into a violent underworld
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Sweden's government considering imposing age limits on social media platforms if tech companies find themselves unable to prevent gangs from recruiting young people online
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At least 150 people killed over past week in Haiti’s Port-au-Prince: UN
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Man in Denmark hands in eighty guns and suspected World War II grenade during weapons amnesty – part of nationwide scheme to tackle violence between criminal gangs
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Sweden and Denmark will summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit young Swedes to commit violent crimes in the Nordics
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Rio de Janeiro’s ‘narco-pentecostal’ gangs accused of ordering Catholic churches to close
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Inside a violent gang's ruthless crypto-stealing home invasion spree
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Christiania, Copenhagen's hippie oasis, wants to rebuild without its illegal hashish market
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As gangs attack a critical port, ‘Haiti will go hungry soon’
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Copenhagen's mayor has urged foreigners not to buy weed in the city's Christiania neighborhood where a thirty-year-old man was shot and killed
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Residents of the Danish neighbourhood of Christiania have asked authorities for help shutting down its Pusher Street after a slew of recent gang-related murders
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Residents of Christiania in Denmark may vote to end open cannabis trade over fears of rising gang violence
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Haiti: Inside the capital city taken hostage by brutal gangs
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UN mulls quick foreign troop deployment to ease Haiti crisis
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Mexico prison cartel clash spills on to streets of border city leaving eleven dead
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Sweden has unveiled plans to combat gang violence by reducing sentences for those who cooperate with the police
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Swedish rapper Einár shot dead at 19, heightening outrage over gang-related violence that has afflicted the Nordic country in recent years
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In the past five years, violent gangs from Sweden have increased their presence in Spain, drawn in by the warm weather and high quality of life
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Award-winning Swedish rapper Yasin Mahamoud has been sentenced to ten months in jail for conspiring to kidnap rival artist Haval Khalil
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Drug cartel now assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones
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Nedim Yasar, a former gang leader who had turned his back on crime, was shot dead in Copenhagen just as a book about his life was published
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Drug gang violence in Sweden linked to 60% increase in bomb blasts – last year 257 bomb attacks were reported to police, up from 162 in 2018
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Swedish rapper Yasin Mahamoud has been arrested in connection to the murder of a former friend
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Mexico ambush: How a US Mormon family ended up dead
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Sweden bomb attacks reach unprecedented level as gangs feud – thirty blasts in the past two months and 100 so far this year
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Danish ex-gangster shot dead on day his memoir on leaving criminal past was launched
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Blood and oil
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Homicides in Guatemala. This project explores the challenges and lessons of disaggregating gang-related and drug trafficking-related murders
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How a notorious gangster was exposed by his own sister
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement claimed a Dreamer was “gang-affiliated” and tried to deport him. A US federal judge ruled that ICE was lying.
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