Police, soldiers swarm Mexico’s Acapulco, killings continue

In this May 11, 2016 photo, a roving seashell vendor walks past as a street musician serenades a local couple and marines along with local police patrol the shore of Papagayo Beach, in Acapulco, Mexico. Experts say Acapulco shows the limitations of the government’s security strategy. Federal police, almost none of whom are from the city, quickly get lost once they leave the coastal boulevard and ascend into twisting, hillside neighborhoods. Their heavy weapons are ill-suited to urban policing. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

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PM orders massive call up of Border Police troops amid terror surge

Israeli police at the scene where a stabbing attack took place in Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 10, 2015, (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli police at the scene where a stabbing attack took place in Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 10, 2015, (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

1,300-2,000 extra personnel will be deployed to bolster presence in mixed Jewish-Arab cities, along major highways and in Jerusalem

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Women stabbed, responding officer shot, killed

Police raise a handgun found in the crime scene in the yard of a home where two people were killed in Sunset, La., Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. Grand Coteau Mayor Shaterral Johnson confirmed the deaths of at least her sister Shameka Johnson and a Sunset Police officer. (AP Photo/The Daily Advertiser, Paul Kieu) Paul Kieu, AP

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State of emergency in Ferguson after renewed violence

Police stand guard outside the 911 Hair Salon which was looted during a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown on August 10, 2015 in Ferguson, Missouri (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Police stand guard outside the 911 Hair Salon which was looted during a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown on August 10, 2015 in Ferguson, Missouri (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Teenager charged in shootout with police as 50 protesters arrested, stores looted

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Turkish May Day protesters clash with police in Istanbul

Demonstrators try to protect themselves from water, sprayed by a police water canon truck during clashes in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 1, 2015. Clashes erupted between police and May Day demonstrators in Istanbul on Friday as crowds determined to defy a government ban tried to march to the city\’s iconic Taksim Square. Security forces pushed back demonstrators with a water cannon and tear gas. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

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A dozen arrested as Freddie Gray protests turn violent

A protestor, left, fights with a bar patron outside of a bar near Oriole Park at Camden Yards after a rally for Freddie Gray, Saturday, April 25, 2015, in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a police van. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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