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Gangs
Mar 25 2009, G

Several days ago, a group of bikies travelling to Sydney began an altercation on a plane. Mobile phones were used to call reinforcements and by the time they arrived at Sydney Airport there were some 20 wild men ready to fight, as it turns out, to...

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Police officers assist as the coroner removes a body following a suspected shooting in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009. Canada’s top cop labelled Metro Vancouver the country’s gang capital Tuesday as police in the region identified the young...