(11/06)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - All 12 people on board a small twin-engine passenger plane that crashed in Indonesia's remote eastern province of Papua were killed, officials said on Sunday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A blast that police said was caused by a suicide bomber killed 11 people and wounded 18 more on a minibus in northern Baghdad on Monday.

(8/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - NATO troops killed 11 Taliban insurgents planning an ambush in southern Afghanistan, while separately, one of four Canadian soldiers wounded in a suicide attack died of his wounds, a NATO spokesman said on Wednesday.

SHARANA, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A bomb dropped by a U.S. warplane in southeastern Afghanistan killed 12 border police on Thursday and wounded two more, a provincial governor said.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan police and Taliban guerrillas battled in violence-racked southern Kandahar province on Thursday, with both sides claiming they had inflicted casualties, the interior ministry said. "In the clash, police have killed 12 Taliban so far," he said, adding fighting was continuing. He had no further details.

(7/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - At least 12 people aboard a helicopter, including two Dutch soldiers, were killed when it crashed in bad weather in rugged mountain terrain in southeastern Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen ambushed an Iraqi army checkpoint in northern Iraq on Friday, killing 12 soldiers and wounding one, in one of the deadliest single attacks in months against the U.S.-trained Iraqi forces.

KABUL (Reuters) - A bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul wounded more than six people on Tuesday and 12 Taliban insurgents were killed in a clash in the south where NATO forces are set to take control.

(6/06)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Armed gangs have targeted police officers in a new outbreak of violence that has killed 12 people in Haiti, including three policemen, in the last five days, a police spokesman said on Thursday.

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - A Sunni religious group in the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi city of Basra said on Sunday that police had gunned down 12 unarmed worshippers in a Sunni mosque but police said they were returning fire against gunmen.

(5/06)

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Bandits disguised as policemen executed 12 bound men by a southern Iranian roadside and strung a wounded 12-year-old boy from an electricity pylon, state media reported on Sunday.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - At least 12 children were killed in Nepal on Tuesday when a bus carrying 23 students to school plunged into an irrigation canal, police said.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Twelve people died when fire broke out in an illegally occupied building in downtown Johannesburg on Wednesday, emergency officials said.

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - At least 12 foreigners, most of them believed to be from the United States, died on Wednesday when a bus plunged down a steep cliff in northern Chile, Cooperativa radio station reported.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A landslide in an unauthorized sand-digging location killed 12 workers and injured two others in Indonesia's West Java province, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A total of 12 people were killed when a military barracks collapsed in Russia's turbulent Chechnya region on Tuesday after what appeared to be a domestic gas explosion, local officials said on Wednesday.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Twelve Ivory Coast villagers were killed in an apparent score-settling attack over a pay dispute in the cocoa-growing west of the war-divided nation this week, military and hospital officials said on Tuesday.

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BUCKHANNON, W., Virginia (Reuters) - The sole survivor of a mine disaster that killed 12 men was in a coma on Thursday as residents of the tight-knit West Virginia community struggled to understand the latest tragedy in a dangerous profession.

(12/05)

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Firefighters found 12 charred bodies at the site of an explosion at a fireworks and munitions shop in eastern Venezuela, and the toll could rise, a government official said on Tuesday.

EL-GENEINA, Sudan (Reuters) - Arab militias on camels and horses attacked a village in West Darfur on Monday, killing 12 people, rebels and government officials said.

WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed and dozens wounded when a bomb exploded on Thursday at a market in a town near Pakistan's troubled tribal region, close to the Afghan border, officials said.

(11/05)

EL PROGRESO, Honduras (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Gamma lashed Central America on Saturday and killed at least 12 people, three of them in a plane crash on their way to a luxury jungle lodge owned by film director Francis Ford Coppola.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Roadside bombs killed a dozen people in Iraq on Monday, while U.S.-led forces launched the latest phase of an offensive against insurgents near the Syrian border.

(10/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed 12 Iraqi construction workers on Monday during an attack in the town of Mussayyib, south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces killed 12 militants in western Iraq including an al Qaeda leader responsible for attacks around Ramadi, a focus of the Sunni Arab insurgency, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

BOGRA, Bangladesh (Reuters) - At least 12 people have died, up to 50,000 have fled their homes and about 1.5 million are marooned following heavy rains that flooded several districts in northern Bangladesh, government officials said on Friday.

(9/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber blew himself up outside a Shi'ite mosque north of Baghdad on Friday, killing 11 and wounding 24, the latest attack in a three-day surge of violence that has killed more than 200 people.

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan government forces killed 12 insurgents and captured nine in a operation in the south aimed at stopping militants from disrupting the September 18 general election, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Twelve people, including a child and three soldiers, were killed and 13 were wounded in separate attacks by suspected Muslim militants across Indian Kashmir, security officials said on Saturday.

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NEW DELHI/BOMBAY (Reuters) - Twelve people died and 367 were rescued after fire destroyed an oil platform off India's west coast, and officials said on Thursday it may take a year to rebuild a platform that produced a sixth of the country's oil.

SANTA MARIA DEL ESPINO, Spain (Reuters) - At least a dozen firefighters were killed on Sunday when they were trapped by a forest fire raging along a 17-km (10-mile) front in central Spain, an official said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suicide bombers killed seven Iraqi policemen on Saturday and three British soldiers died in a roadside blast, piling pressure on the government a day after militants blew themselves up across the capital.

BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Insurgents stormed an Iraqi army checkpoint as dawn broke north of Baghdad on Monday, killing 12 people, including nine soldiers.

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KABUL (Reuters) - Insurgents crossed into Afghanistan from Pakistan and attacked a U.S. patrol, and 12 rebels were believed killed when U.S.-led forces retaliated with the help of an aircraft, a U.S. military spokeswoman said on Sunday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces killed 12 people and wounded two others, including a six year old girl, in a firefight and bombing close to the Syrian border on Monday, the U.S. military said in a statement on Tuesday.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed and as many injured in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday when three buildings collapsed after gas cylinders exploded, police and witnesses said.

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KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. forces blasted rebel positions with bombs, rockets and artillery, killing at least 12 insurgents, after rockets were fired at a U.S. base in southeastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrilla attacks killed at least 12 people in Iraq on Tuesday as a resurgence in violence piled pressure on politicians struggling to form a government more than 11 weeks after elections.

KABUL (Reuters) - Twelve Taliban insurgents were killed on Monday in a battle with U.S. and Afghan government forces in the volatile southeast of the country, police said.

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents dragged Iraqi soldiers off a bus and shot 12 of them dead in the bloodiest attack on security forces since last weekend's historic election, the Iraqi army said Thursday.

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents bent on wrecking Sunday's landmark election killed 10 Iraqis and two U.S. soldiers on Friday as the government announced the capture of two al Qaeda lieutenants.

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Three suicide car bomb attacks on Iraqi police and troops in a town near Kirkuk killed at least nine people Wednesday, police said, in the latest insurgent strikes on security forces ahead of Sunday's election.

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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Twelve people died when Muslim militants stormed the U.S. consulate in the Saudi city of Jeddah Monday, officials said.

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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Rebels in the north of Ivory Coast pledged to continue their fight to oust President Laurent Gbagbo as African leaders scrambled on Wednesday to find a plan to prevent all-out war in the world's top cocoa grower. Gbagbo's forces started bombing the north two weeks ago, an operation commanded by Mangou which broke an 18-month truce and killed nine French soldiers. France responded by wiping out most of the Ivorian air force. The aid group Medecins sans Frontieres said on Wednesday its hospital in Bouake had received 84 injured people, 30 of them civilians, after three days of air raids on the north began on Nov. 4. Three people had died.

PADRE BURGOS, Philippines (Reuters) - Rescuers in the Philippines freed more than 100 train passengers trapped on Friday when a crowded economy carriage derailed and dragged other cars into a steep ravine, killing at least 12 people.

(10/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers killed 10 civilians, including four U.S. nationals, on Thursday in one of the bloodiest attacks inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, an attack claimed by America's top enemy in Iraq.

(9/04)

BEIJING (Reuters) - An overloaded ferry sank in China's powerful Yellow River killing at least 12 people and leaving 36 missing, the China Daily newspaper said Saturday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suspected suicide car bomber struck Wednesday in a crowded commercial street in Baghdad, killing at least 11 people, as scores of men wanting to join Iraq's security forces queued up to photocopy their documents.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have detained two brothers who killed 12 people, most of them women working in nightclubs and bath houses whom they robbed and dismembered in a 15-month spree, a newspaper said on Thursday.

(8/04)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - A militant Iraqi group said it had killed 12 Nepali hostages and showed pictures of one being beheaded and others being shot dead, the worst mass killing of captives since a wave of kidnappings erupted in April.

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The toll from Sunday's car bomb blast in Kabul rose Monday with different accounts from Western security forces and Afghan officials suggesting as many as a dozen people may have been killed.

(6/04)

KABUL (Reuters) - Gunmen killed seven Afghan policemen in an ambush in the western province of Farah at the weekend, the latest in a spate of violence ahead of elections supposed to be held in September, an official said on Monday. In a separate incident on Sunday, U.S. forces killed five Taliban guerrillas and wounded three in the southern province of Zabul, Zabul Governor Kheyal Mohammad Husseini told Reuters.

JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Suspected militants shot dead at least 12 villagers, including four children, in their sleep in Indian Kashmir on Saturday, a day ahead of talks between India and Pakistan over the disputed Himalayan region.

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A mortar attack that hit forces loyal to an Iraqi general charged with imposing security in Falluja killed 12 and wounded 10 on Wednesday, members of the force said.

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle at the entrance to a U.S. military base north of Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least 11 Iraqis and wounding 20 others and two American soldiers, the U.S. military said.

(5/04)

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after 11 of its soldiers died in two ambushes in the worst blow to the Middle East's mightiest army in two years.

(4/04)

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.S. army said on Saturday it killed 12 insurgents in northern Iraq, destroying their truck with a missile after the guerrillas opened fire.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraqi insurgents killed as many as a dozen American Marines Tuesday in an attack on their position in the city of Ramadi near the Sunni hotbed of Falluja, a U.S. defense official said.

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Ten Bulgarians were killed and two were feared dead after a bus bringing high-school children and teachers home from a trip to Dubrovnik plunged into a swollen river in a ravine in Serbia, police said Monday.

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ASHDOD, Israel (Reuters) - Two Palestinian suicide bombers killed at least 10 other people on Sunday in a double-attack at Israel's port of Ashdod, prompting Israel to cancel talks on arranging an Israeli-Palestinian peace summit.

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BARISAL, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Two ferries carrying hundreds of passengers collided in a river in southern Bangladesh Thursday, killing nearly a dozen people, with more feared still trapped or dead, police and officials said.

HANOI/BANGKOK (Reuters) - The death toll of victims of bird flu rose to 12 Monday in an epidemic sweeping Asia, but in Europe German health officials said they doubted two women tested for the virus had contracted the disease.

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DHAKA (Reuters) - A mysterious disease has killed at least 12 people in Bangladesh and made many more sick and health experts said Sunday they were sending samples to the United States for analysis.

(11/03)

TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - The Turkish military killed 12 Kurdish militants during fighting in the southeastern province of Bingol late on Wednesday, government and security officials said.

(10/03)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A Spanish diplomat, a U.S. soldier and at least 10 Iraqis died Thursday in a trio of attacks, showing how frail security still is half a year since U.S. troops occupied Baghdad. U.S. efforts to rebuild Iraq faced diplomatic obstacles too.

PAKISTAN: Pakistani troops killed 12 al Qaeda fighters in a gun battle during a raid on a suspected militant camp Oct. 2 in the tribal South Waziristan, Agence France-Presse reported. Also, 10 militants -- four al Qaeda and six Taliban suspects -- reportedly were captured during the raid.

(7/03)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed three British soldiers in southern Iraq on Saturday, and Iraqi and U.S. officials said at least nine people died in clashes between Kurds and Turkmen near the northern oil hub of Kirkuk.

(2/03)

SANAA (Reuters) - A Yemeni military helicopter with 12 troops on board crashed in the Red Sea on Saturday killing eight soldiers and officers, a Yemeni defense official said.

(1/03)

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed at least 12 Palestinians on Sunday in its deepest thrust into Gaza City in two years of fighting, adding ammunition to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's security pledges two days before a general election.

HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed and more than 40 injured in western India on Friday when a passenger train rammed into a stationary goods train, railway officials said.

(12/02)

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (Reuters) - At least a dozen people were killed and nine wounded Thursday when unidentified gunmen ambushed a truck in a remote area in southern Philippines, military officials said.

(11/02)

HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen ambushed Jewish settlers walking home from Sabbath prayers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, killing at least 12 people in the deadliest attack on Israelis in Hebron in two years of violence.

NANCY, France (Reuters) - Twelve people died from smoke poisoning in a fire on the Paris-Vienna express train near the eastern French city of Nancy early Wednesday, local officials said.

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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Twelve people, including nine rebels, have been killed in fresh clashes between Muslim militants and Indian security forces in disputed Kashmir, police said on Tuesday.

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian troops killed eight Marxist rebels in a clash on Tuesday -- a day after President Alvaro Uribe publicly scolded the army for being ineffective -- but the military reported that four of its soldiers were also killed in another battle.

(7/02)

CHAMAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 12 people have been killed in clashes between rival Afghan factions in the western province of Herat bordering Iran, an Afghan commander said, although there were some reports of a cease-fire Tuesday.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Twelve people including four militants were killed on Thursday in separate gunfights in India's revolt-racked Kashmir, where authorities said violence by Pakistan-based militants continues unabated.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Twelve people, including nine separatist guerrillas, have been killed in a string of shootouts in India's revolt-racked state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Ten Pakistani soldiers and two suspected al Qaeda militants were killed in a gun battle in the lawless tribal area bordering Afghanistan, the army and government officials said Wednesday.

Mideast Violence Kills 12 People // GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli troops shot and killed five armed Palestinians and a 9-year-old boy in separate incidents near a Jewish settlement, while a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a fast food restaurant in a Mediterranean resort town, killing a 15-year-old Israeli girl.

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BHAKKAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb killed 12 women and children during a gathering of thousands of Shi'ite Muslims at a mosque in an area of central Pakistan that has been hit by religious violence.

LISBON (Reuters) - An Angolan separatist group said it killed 12 government soldiers in the southwest African nation, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported on Friday.

BOGOTA (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed and 70 injured when a powerful car bomb ripped through a crowded street lined with restaurants and nightclubs in Colombia early on Sunday, authorities said.

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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Twelve people have been killed and 42 wounded in separate shootouts and explosions in the past 24 hours in India's revolt-racked Kashmir region, police said on Friday.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces swept through the Gaza Strip in a hunt for militants and faced Palestinian accusations they tried to wipe out a dozen security chiefs in a missile strike on Wednesday in a burst of deadly reprisals. The dizzying cycle of violence, which added 10 Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers to the death toll, raged on after the United States and Egypt pledged to work harder to end the fighting but offered no new initiatives.

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India doubts Musharraf's ability to change Pakistan society, 12 civilians killed in Kashmir raid // NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- India's foreign minister said Monday he is trying to avoid war with Pakistan over disputed Kashmir, but is uncertain how fast Pakistan's president can change his nation's policy and halt militant attacks on Indian soil.

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NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- India has pledged to crush terrorism after a daring suicide attack on parliament that put the country in a state of high alert. A fierce shootout lasting more than 30 minutes came just after lawmakers adjourned inside the New Delhi building. No group has claimed responsibility for the assault, which left 12 people dead.

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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Twelve people, including a schoolgirl and six Indian paramilitaries, were killed in separate incidents of violence in the troubled Kashmir region, police said on Saturday. The girl, part of a school group on a picnic to the scenic resort of Pahalgam, was killed in an explosion after the bus in which she was traveling ran over a land mine. Twenty other children were wounded in the blast in the Anantnag.

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ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) -- Clashes between government forces and Muslim extremists killed 12 people on Wednesday as troops searched for the rebels' last remaining hostage. A group of soldiers, police and government militiamen traded gunfire with an Abu Sayyaf rebel band in the remote village of Mabahay in southern Jolo Island, said Sulu provincial police chief Candido Casimiro.

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PECROT, Belgium (AP) -- A crowded commuter train slammed head on into an empty locomotive Tuesday in central Belgium, killing at least eight people and seriously injuring at least eight. The death toll was expected to rise as workers cut into the carriages that were turned into a pile of twisted metal. News reports put the death toll as high as 12. One of the trains was empty and the other was crowded with rush-hour passengers when they collided near the village of Pecrot, said Leen Uyterhoeven, spokeswoman for the national SNCB-NMBS rail company. The accident occurred at 8:45 a.m. about 16 miles east of Brussels on the line between the university towns of Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve.

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TURIN (Reuters) - Torrential rain swelled rivers, burst riverbanks and swept floodwater across northern Italy on Monday, killing at least 12 people and prompting the government to declare a state of emergency.

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DHAKA (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed and more than 40 injured after a truck knocked a bus off the road near the Bangladesh capital Dhaka Wednesday, police said.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - At least 12 people, including 10 separatist guerrillas, were killed and an equal number wounded Monday as violence flared in India's troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir, police and defense officials said.

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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Two senior officers in the Indian army were among 12 people killed over the past 24 hours in restive Jammu and Kashmir, officials said Monday. As violence raged, shops and businesses went on strike in the summer capital Srinagar, responding to a call by pro-Pakistan separatist guerrillas.

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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- At least 12 people were killed and 17 others injured when a clothing factory gutted by fire collapsed in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, police said Thursday.

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KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan rebels have killed up to 12 people in a wave of attacks in the northwest of the country that shattered an 18-month period of relative peace, diplomats and human rights workers said Wednesday.

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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- A suspected Tamil rebel detonated explosives strapped to her body while police tried to search her near the prime minister's office today, killing herself and 10 others. Hours later, gunmen assassinated a pro-Tamil politician.

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GLENBROOK, Australia -- A Sydney commuter train was ripped open like a sardine can on Thursday when it ploughed into a slow-moving train, killing as many as 12 and injuring 65 passengers in the Blue Mountains west of the city.

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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) -- The Indonesian military stepped up its anti-separatist campaign in Aceh province and clashes between troops and rebels left 12 people dead, the military said today.

(7/99)

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) - A fierce gunfight between drug gangs battling for turf in two Rio shantytowns has left 12 men dead including one alleged drug lord, police said in a statement.

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VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Salvage teams have retrieved seven more bodies from an Alpine tunnel after a devastating weekend fire, bringing the death toll in the blaze to 12, Salzburg's governor said Wednesday.

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ALEKSINAC, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Pools of blood, two corpses and parts of dismembered bodies lay in the wreckage of a large apartment building today in this central Serbian town after an overnight air strike. Yugoslav media reports said 12 people were killed and dozens were injured when NATO missiles hit a residential neighborhood Monday night in this coal mining community of 17,000 people about 100 miles southeast of Belgrade.

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AMBON, Indonesia (AP) -- Religious violence worsened on riot-torn Ambon Island after outnumbered troops opened fire on Muslim and Christian mobs fighting each other with spears, knives and gasoline bombs. Religious officials said 12 people were killed.

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LUANDA, Angola (Reuters) -- More than 12 people were killed and several others wounded during rebel shelling of the government-controlled Angolan city of Malanje on Monday, Angolan national radio reported.

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ROME (AP) -- A five-story apartment house collapsed today, killing at least 12 people, including three children, and burying dozens of others. The building, in a modern, middle-class section of Rome, collapsed at dawn, apparently for structural reasons.

ALGIERS -- Algerian security forces said on Wednesday Moslem rebels had slashed the throats of 12 people at a village west of Algiers overnight. The rebels raided the coastal village of Sidi Rached village, 60 km (37 miles) west of the capital, and killed 12 people by slashing their throats, the security forces said in a statement carried by the official Algerian news agency APS.

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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Heavy rains dislodged a hillside in central Mexico killing 12 people early Thursday, and two others died when a swollen river swept away their truck, the Mexican Red Cross said.