(12/06)

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamists are in full retreat after Ethiopian airstrikes and a ground offensive that have killed up to 1,000 of the religious movement's fighters, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Tuesday.

(7/05)

BOMBAY (Reuters) - Police urged millions of Bombay residents to stay off the streets as heavy rains brought more flooding to India's financial hub on Sunday and relief officials said the death toll in the region could reach 1,000.

(12/04)

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Over 1,000 Congolese civilians a day are dying, nearly all from disease and malnutrition, due to a festering conflict that has killed 3.8 million people, an aid agency said on Thursday.

(11/04)

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces expect to be positioned throughout the last remaining guerrilla stronghold in Falluja by Tuesday, a Marine officer said on Saturday. Iraq's minister of state for national security said more than 1,000 insurgents had been killed in the past five days of fighting.

(8/03)

MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberian state radio said on Sunday that rebels had killed many people at a town in the northeast and quoted one source from the area as saying about 1,000 people had been killed.

(7/03)

MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberian President Charles Taylor said on Saturday that more than 1,000 people had been killed during the latest rebel attack on the capital Monrovia.

(5/02)

HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - More than 1,000 people have died in a heat wave in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, officials said Wednesday as they warned of a fresh spell of scorching temperatures after a brief respite.

(8/00)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A new liquor tax has caused thousands of deaths in heavy-drinking Russia this year, as ever more drinkers turn to dangerous black market moonshine vodka, the National Alcohol Association reported Friday.