The lanes of Delhi's Ravi Das colony, the slum district where four of the accused had their homes, were if anything in better shape.

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Police have been setting up checkpoints at entrances to the slum district - or favela - which is located close to tourist areas in Rio's south zone.

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He was born in a slum district of New Jersey to Italian immigrants (father a fireman, mother a nurse) and had a first-generation American's determination to succeed.

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The people who live in the slum near the Central Business District will perhaps be hoping that they get a bigger share of the economic pie.

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It will end the militias' armed presence in the sprawling eastern Baghdad slum, he said, and clear the district of roadside bombs and mines that the United Nations Children's Fund says has rendered many roads inaccessible.

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Situated near Beirut's port in a district known as Karantina, the site was once a slum home to thousands of Kurdish and Palestinian refugees.

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