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Violent crime on the rise in US

Violent crime rose for the second year running in 2006 across the United States, in a worrying trend overturning more than a decade of successful crime-fighting efforts, the FBI reports. The annual report released today by the FBI showed that violent crime – murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault – rose by 1.3 per cent between January and December of 2006, after a 2.3 per cent increase in 2005. Full Story