We quickly changed our airplane tickets, rushed across the border (the taxi had pictures and videos on his phone of a grisly murder that he witnessed at a soccer game the day before) and stayed in a hotel in El Paso, where we could finally feel relatively safe.

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FARC's kidnap and murder of a provincial governor in late December was a grisly throwback to the bad old days of a decade ago.

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The grisly murder in Woolwich has prompted calls for Britain's government to look again at a shelved bill that would greatly expand law enforcement's powers to monitor suspects' use of the internet, which is currently only possible on a more limited basis.

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