(12/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led troops killed at least four people, including a teenage girl, in a raid in southeastern Afghanistan on Tuesday and a suicide bomber killed eight more in the south, residents, officials and coalition forces said.

(11/06)

RABAT (Reuters) - Three more children's bodies have washed up on a Western Sahara beach, bringing to 13 the number of migrant children who drowned when their small boat sank in the Atlantic, rights activists said on Tuesday.

(10/06)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb blast and an ambush by gunmen on a convoy of buses near the town of Baquba killed 13 police recruits on Sunday and several more recruits were kidnapped, a local official said.

ZOUFFTGEN, France (Reuters) - A double-decker passenger train from Luxembourg collided head-on with a goods train in north eastern France on Wednesday, killing as many as 13 people, state SNCF railways said.

A car bomb exploded in a busy Baghdad market at dusk as people were heading home to break their daylong Ramadan fast, killing 13 and wounding 46, police said. The U.S. military has said bombings in Baghdad are at an all-time high.

(9/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul on Saturday, killing 12 people and wounding 42, the Afghan government said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A gas explosion in a coal mine in northeastern Heilongjiang province has killed 13 miners in the latest accident to hit the world's deadliest mining industry, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - A sudden release of gas in a colliery killed 13 miners and injured more than 60 on Wednesday in the heart of eastern Ukraine's Donbass coalfield, officials said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 12 people in a minibus transporting Iraqi army recruits on Monday, as al Qaeda said in a video on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks that U.S. forces in Iraq were "doomed" to fail.

(8/06)

PACHUCA, Mexico (Reuters) - A bus ran off a mountain road and crashed down a ravine in central Mexico on Saturday, killing 13 people, rescue officials said.

(7/06)

Tire, Lebanon (Reuters) - Hizbollah guerrillas and advancing Israeli troops fought pitched battles at the entrance to a key town in south Lebanon on Wednesday and Arab television stations said up to 13 Israeli soldiers had been killed.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan troops surrounded and killed 13 Taliban fighters after their convoy was ambushed by the guerrillas, an army commander said on Friday.

KUFA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber blasted two coaches carrying Iranian pilgrims outside a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in Iraq at dawn on Thursday, killing 12 people and wounding 41, police and health officials said.

(6/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - One soldier was killed and three wounded when U.S.-led troops on patrol in southern Afghanistan hit a land mine, while 12 Taliban were killed in a separate clash, the U.S. military said.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian police gunned down 13 suspects in two clashes in Sao Paulo state on Monday, saying the actions prevented a new round of attacks similar to a wave of gangster violence last month in which nearly 200 people were killed.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan troops surrounded and killed 13 Taliban fighters after their convoy was ambushed by the guerrillas, an army commander said on Friday.

(5/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - Security forces opened fire on protestors on Monday after a fatal crash involving a U.S. army truck triggered the worst riots in the Afghan capital since the fall of the Taliban. Officials said five people died when the truck, part of a U.S. convoy, crashed into a dozen vehicles. At least eight people were killed and more than 100 wounded in the subsequent protests, a health ministry official said.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thirteen people were killed on a South African highway after a pickup truck slammed into the back of a minibus taxi which exploded into flames, Johannesburg emergency services said on Sunday.

(4/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - An air strike by U.S.-led forces in southern Afghanistan, a Taliban assault on a police station and a roadside bomb attack on a military convoy left 13 people dead in escalating violence, officials said on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A bus plunged 160 meters (525 ft) off a winding mountain road in southern Iran on Wednesday, killing 13 passengers and injuring 22, state television quoted police as saying.

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in the Shi'ite Muslim city of Najaf on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, as Iraqi leaders struggled to break a deadlock over forming a government they hope can avert sectarian civil war.

(3/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq executed 13 insurgents on Thursday after they confessed to taking part in "crimes against Iraqis" in northern Iraq, state television said.

(2/06)

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb exploded on a bus in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 20, the latest incident in worsening separatist violence in troubled Baluchistan province, officials said.

(1/06)

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) - A gun battle between inmates at a prison in Honduras left 13 prisoners deadon Thursday, the latest lethal incident in the Central American country's notorious penal system, an official said.

(12/05)

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels ambushed and killed 13 Sri Lankan sailors in an attack on a naval bus in northern Sri Lanka on Friday in the worst breach of a 2002 ceasefire so far.

(10/05)

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) -Thirteen people, including five children, were killed and 30 injured when an old building collapsed in the north Indian city of Kanpur after a gas cylinder exploded, officials said on Thursday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Nine Afghan police and four Taliban guerrillas have been killed in a clash in a restive southern province, a government official said on Saturday.

RANCHI, India (Reuters) - Maoist rebels set off a powerful bomb at a jungle hideout in India's eastern state of Jharkhand on Saturday, killing 13 policemen including a deputy commandant, police said.

(9/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed and 29 wounded when a suicide bomber dressed in an army uniform rammed a motorcycle into a convoy of buses carrying Afghan army officers in the capital Kabul on Wednesday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan and U.S. forces have launched a sweep for Taliban insurgents, killing 13 and capturing 44 suspected militants in the troubled south of the country, an Afghan official said on Monday.

(7/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier was killed along with an Afghan soldier and 11 guerrillas in heavy fighting in central Afghanistan on Monday, the U.S. military said.

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - Indian police said on Friday they suspected that a blast in a packed train which killed 13 people and left dozens wounded was caused by high explosives.

SANAA (Reuters) - At least 13 people were killed in clashes with police in Yemen on Wednesday after rioters smashed government offices and set fires in response to a sharp rise in fuel prices.

(6/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 12 people, many of them policemen or plain-clothes security guards, at a Baghdad restaurant just outside the Green Zone government compound on Sunday, police sources said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 12 people when he plowed his car into a restaurant in northern Iraq where bodyguards of the Kurdish deputy prime minister were eating on Thursday, Iraq's Defense Ministry said.

(5/05)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Marxist rebels staged two ambushes on Colombian police on jungle roads on Thursday, killing 13 officers, the police said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded at a busy intersection in central Baghdad on Saturday as a foreign security convoy drove past, killing at least nine Iraqis and four foreigners, police and witnesses said.

(4/05)

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish troops killed at least 10 Kurdish rebels in a clash in southeast Turkey and three soldiers died in the fighting on Thursday, military sources told Reuters.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - Thirteen prisoners were killed in a crowded Argentine jail overnight on Tuesday after a fight between two gangs escalated into a full-scale riot, prison authorities said.

SANAA (Reuters) - Eight Shi'ite rebels and five Yemen soldiers were killed in fresh fighting during an army offensive in the north of the country against followers of a slain cleric, medical sources said on Monday.

(2/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed 12 people Thursday, underlining Iraq's dire security challenges, while a Kurdish politician spelt out demands that could complicate the formation of the country's new government.

(1/05)

CREVALCORE, Italy (Reuters) - A passenger train and a freight train crashed head-on in fog-shrouded countryside on Friday, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 50 in Italy's worst rail accident in nearly 25 years.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed Baghdad's governor in Iraq's highest-profile assassination in eight months and a suicide bomber killed 11 people at a police checkpoint on Tuesday in an escalating campaign to wreck the Jan. 30 election.

(12/04)

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Insurgents attacked an Iraqi police station in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Tuesday, killing 13 officers and wounding two, police said.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Not far from the luxury hotels, bars and Caribbean beaches, a wave of grisly murders has hit the Mexican holiday resort of Cancun, with 13 dead bodies discovered in less than two months.

MANILA (Reuters) - A huge explosion rocked the southern Philippine city of General Santos on Sunday, killing 13 people and injuring at least 60 at a public market, police and witnesses said.

(11/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber plowed into policemen waiting to collect their salaries at a police station west of Ramadi Monday, killing 12 people in the latest insurgent attack on Iraq's beleaguered security forces.

(10/04)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Residents of a Port-au-Prince slum accused Haitian police on Wednesday of executing 13 people believed to be supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - Thirteen people were killed when their commuter plane crashed in northeast Missouri while preparing to land, officials said on Wednesday.

(9/04)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A new power plant exploded during a trial run in the northern Chinese province of Hebei, killing at least 13 people, Xinhua news agency said Friday.

(8/04)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Typhoon Megi killed one person as it slammed ashore in northern Japan on Friday, bringing the death toll to at least 13 and cutting power to thousands of homes before heading out into the Pacific.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistan army helicopter crashed in the country's northwest on Thursday, killing all 13 soldiers on board, a military official said.

BAGHDAD/MOSUL (Reuters) - Car bombs exploded outside at least five Christian churches in Iraq on Sunday, killing more than a dozen people and wounding many more in an apparently coordinated attack timed to coincide with evening prayers.

(7/04)

BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces killed 13 insurgents during heavy clashes on Sunday south of the Iraqi town of Baquba, which is northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's police and National Guard killed 13 suspected militants in heavy clashes near Baghdad on Sunday in one of the fiercest battles the fledgling security forces have faced since the handover of sovereignty.

(6/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew up his car as police tried to stop it hurtling toward a heavily guarded U.S. base in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 12 Iraqis.

(5/04)

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli helicopters hit Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday after attacks led by the Palestinian militant group killed 13 soldiers and dealt the Middle East's mightiest army its worst blow in two years.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops killed 13 members of rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army in skirmishes near the Iraqi city of Kufa overnight, a senior U.S. military official said on Tuesday.

(12/03)

KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Guerrillas killed six coalition soldiers and at least seven Iraqis in southern Iraq on Saturday in a coordinated assault on nations that answered U.S. calls for troops to stabilize the country it invaded.

(11/03)

SAINT-NAZAIRE, France (Reuters) - Thirteen people died and 31 were injured on Saturday when a dockside gangway to the world's biggest and most expensive cruise ship, the Queen Mary 2, collapsed at Saint-Nazaire in western France.

(10/03)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Thirteen miners have been killed, either buried by coal or poisoned by gas, in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, the latest in a series of coal mine accidents that have killed thousands this year.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Driven by fierce Santa Ana winds, 10 major fires played havoc with southern California on Monday, dancing across highways and threatening suburban neighborhoods to engulf hundreds of homes in flames and send 40,000 people scrambling for safety. The blazes, including two believed set by arsonists and one by a lost hunter seeking help, killed at least 13 people, destroyed 850 homes, blackened more than 300,000 acres and rained ash over a 500-square-mile area.

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Marxist guerrillas killed 13 people in election-day attacks on Saturday as Colombians voted in a referendum that President Alvaro Uribe hopes will save billions of dollars and fight corruption.

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Thirteen people were killed when heavy rains flooded parts of western and central Algeria over the last two days, official radio said on Saturday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Heavy rains triggered landslides that killed at least 13 people in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, government officials said on Monday.

(9/03)

KABUL (Reuters) - The private armies of two factional leaders in Afghanistan have clashed repeatedly near the capital Kabul in the past week and at least 13 people have been killed, residents said on Friday.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India said Tuesday its offer of friendship to Pakistan remained on the table, but the neighbor must cut links with militant groups. But as the foreign ministry said the offer stood, 13 people were killed in gun battles and bombings across disputed Kashmir.

(8/03)

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Fire swept through an apartment block on the outskirts of Taipei early on Sunday killing 13 people and injuring 70, and investigators said they were checking a report it was caused by a woman who set herself on fire. Desperate residents of the seven-story building jumped off balconies to escape the blaze, or climbed down ropes through thick black smoke as illegal building structures and narrow alleyways hampered fire trucks and rescue efforts.

BEIJING (Reuters) - At least 13 people have been killed and thousands evacuated in northwestern China after landslides and floods destroyed homes, the official Xinhua news agency said Saturday.

(7/03)

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Thirteen soldiers loyal to an Afghan warlord were killed and 21 wounded in a huge blast after a soldier dropped a mortar bomb while loading weapons handed in by local fighters, officials said on Monday.

(3/03)

CALCUTTA, India (Reuters) - At least 13 people were killed and more than 500 injured when a thunderstorm lashed eastern India, uprooting trees and destroying homes, police said on Thursday.

(12/02)

COTABATO, Philippines (Reuters) - A bomb believed planted by Muslim rebels killed 13 people, including a town mayor, and wounded 12 in a Christmas Eve attack in the southern Philippines, the army said on Tuesday.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Four civilians and nine separatist guerrillas were killed on Tuesday in the latest rebel violence in India's mainly Muslim state of Kashmir, police said.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Mudslides triggered by heavy rain in a mountain town near Rio de Janeiro has killed 13 people and more might be missing, the town's Civil Defense Department said on Sunday.

(11/02)

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Up to 13 people were feared dead and dozens wounded Sunday in fierce fighting between troops belonging to two rival commanders near an air base in western Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces took over Bethlehem Friday after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 11 people on a bus, and a British U.N. aid worker was shot dead during a gun battle in the West Bank city of Jenin.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A former communist lawmaker was among 13 people killed in Maoist violence in Nepal in the past 24 hours, officials said on Thursday.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Thirteen people were killed on Monday in fresh separatist violence and in an artillery exchange between India and Pakistan across a military line that runs through the disputed Kashmir region, police said.

(10/02)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rescue teams worked through the night into Friday searching for survivors in the rubble of a police station in Russia's rebel Chechnya after a bomb exploded, killing at least 13 people and injuring others.

(8/02)

KABUL (Reuters) - Thirteen men killed in a shootout with Afghan security forces on Wednesday were dangerous, high-ranking members of the al Qaeda network who had only hours earlier escaped from jail, the foreign minister said.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian gunman shot dead a Jewish couple in an ambush on Monday, bringing to 13 the number of people killed within 24 hours and prompting Israel to further restrict Palestinian travel around most West Bank cities.

(7/02)

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Battles raged between rival Somali warlords in the southern town of Baidoa on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 30, witnesses and hospital sources said.

KABUL (Reuters) - A land mine killed 13 bus passengers and six others were injured in the central Afghan province of Bamiyan, a U.N. spokesman said Sunday.

(6/02)

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist rebels killed 13 bus passengers and wounded nine on the outskirts of the capital in Algeria's third such attack this month, medical sources and survivors said on Saturday.

(5/02)

WEBBERS FALLS, Okla. (AP) - Rescuers hoisted two vehicles with four bodies inside from the murky Arkansas River on Tuesday, bringing the death toll from the collapse of an interstate bridge to 13.

(4/02)

JERUSALEM - Palestinian militants have killed 13 Israeli reserve soldiers in an ambush in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, the heaviest single blow to the Israeli army in 18 months of bloodshed.

(3/02)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) - Dubai authorities said at least 13 workers were killed and 23 missing and feared dead Wednesday after a gate collapsed at a dry dock, flooding one of the world's biggest ship repair facilities within minutes.

(8/01)

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Thirteen people were killed in Algeria in two separate attacks blamed on Islamic rebels, the official APS news agency and hospital sources said on Saturday. APS, quoting the governor of the western city of Mascara, said assailants cut the throats of five members of the same family and also kidnapped a 16-year-old girl at a fake military roadblock near the village of Ras el-Ain Amrouche, 225 milesfrom Algiers.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - At least eight men and five women were found dead in a stolen van abandoned in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in what police on Sunday described as a gang-related massacre.

DHAKA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Clashes between rival political groups in Bangladesh killed up to 13 people and injured nearly 250 at the weekend, police and newspapers said on Monday.

(7/01)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A plane crashed moments after takeoff Thursday in northwestern Venezuela, killing all 13 people aboard, authorities said. The Sky Trick M28 plane went down near Puerto Cabello airport, 125 miles west of Caracas, said Manuel Fajardo, director of the airport.

(4/01)

NAZRAN, Russia (AP) -- The latest series of mine explosions and attacks by rebels in Chechnya has killed 13 federal troops and wounded more than 30 others, while Russian forces retaliated with an artillery barrage of rebel positions in the southern mountains, officials said Tuesday.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Two buses plunged off cliffs in separate accidents over the weekend, killing 13 people and injuring at least 36, the head of Bolivia's transport department said on Sunday.

(2/01)

LONDON (AP) -- A high-speed passenger train collided with a Land Rover, derailed and smashed into an oncoming freight train in northern England Wednesday morning, killing 13 people. More than 70 other people were injured, Transport Police Inspector Ian Griffiths told reporters, as rescue workers continued to struggle to free passengers trapped in the mangled wreckage at Great Heck, a village about 200 miles north of London.

(10/00)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew himself up near an election rally of the governing Peoples' Alliance in a northeastern town Thursday, killing himself and 12 others, the military and police said.

(12/99)

DAR ES SALAAM -- At least 13 people drowned after the boat they were travelling in capsized in Tanzanian waters of Lake Victoria, officials said on Wednesday. Police officials said the boat carrying passengers from Gemkari island to Kasalazi island on the lake capsized early on Monday morning.

(8/99)

FIVE POINTS, Calif. (AP) -- Thirteen tomato pickers were killed today when their crowded van slammed into a tractor-trailer that was making a U-turn in the early morning darkness on a remote farming road.

(7/99)

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish soldiers have killed 13 Kurdish rebels and detained six others in fighting throughout southeastern Turkey, a news agency reported Monday. The clashes took place last week in the southeastern provinces of Diyarbakir, Sirnak, Batman, Mardin, Van and Hakkari, the Anatolia news agency quoted authorities as saying.

(5/99)

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. -- The boat that sank in an Arkansas lake with the loss of 13 lives may have suffered a leak two days earlier, safety investigators said Sunday.

(3/99)

BOURBONNAIS, Ill. (AP) -- Rescue crews combed through a twisted, charred rail car today, with hopes fading of finding survivors after Amtrak's City of New Orleans struck a truck and derailed. At least 13 people were killed and others were unaccounted-for.

(11/98)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) -- Skulls and bones of at least 13 children thought to have been slain in a macabre devil- worshipping ritual have been found in a field in central Colombia, police said Wednesday.