The violence rocked the west African nation's fragile democracy eight years after the end of a 14-year civil war that killed 250,000.

Widespread violence had rocked his native city of São Paulo, the attacks on police stations and public buildings reportedly carried out by a criminal gang known in Brazil as the First Capital Command.

Twenty-two months after demonstrations here and across Haiti drove the younger Duvalier into exile, violence is once again rocking the country.

The violence of that need rocked him.

Nor had most of them ever spoken up on the many previous occasions when violence rocked the apartment of her purported parents, Joel Steinberg and Hedda Nussbaum.

The growing violence is rocking Mexico and threatens to spill over into the United States.

The fuse was still sputtering, and every public official in Miami knew that it was only a matter of time until more violence rocked the area.

Six and a half years after racial violence rocked Crown Heights, Brooklyn, two developments helped move the city toward closure on the bitter episode.

Political violence has rocked much of the nation.

More recently, he worked tirelessly to keep peace negotiations alive when renewed violence rocked the West Bank and Gaza Strip.