(12/06)
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian rebels ambushed an army patrol and killed 14 soldiers on Saturday in one of the worst attacks this year on troops fighting in President Alvaro Uribe's U.S.-backed campaign to end a four-decade insurgency.
(11/06)
MANILA (Reuters) - Fourteen people were killed and an unknown number were missing after a boat with a capacity for 150 passengers sank off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, officials said on Sunday.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Heavy fighting between Colombian troops and left-wing guerrillas killed 11 rebels and three soldiers in a remote jungle area in the south of the country, the armed forces said on Tuesday.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military said it sank two Tamil Tiger suicide boats in a new clash with rebel forces on Friday, amid mounting fears that a two-decade civil war was escalating.
(10/06)
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A bomb ripped through a bus in southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing 14 civilians as the Taliban threatened to step up already rising suicide attacks.
DHULUIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - The bodies of 14 construction workers, their throats slit and their hands and legs bound, were found in a rural area near Baghdad, police said on Friday.
TAL AFAR, Iraq (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed and 13 wounded on Saturday when a car suicide bomber hit an Iraqi Army checkpoint in the northern town of Tal Afar, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed and 75 wounded in a car bomb attack on the convoy of Iraq's industry minister on Wednesday, Interior Ministry sources said.
(9/06)
MANILA (Reuters) - Six Philippine marines and 8 Muslim rebels were killed and dozens more were wounded in the heaviest day of fighting in the latest campaign to flush out Islamic extremists from a remote southwestern island.
KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Fourteen South Asian pilgrims were ambushed and killed on their way to Shi'ite Muslim sites in Iraq, hospital, police and army sources said on Saturday.
(8/06)
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes killed 14 villagers in south Lebanon on Tuesday as Arab nations demanded a swift end to Israel's war with Hizbollah guerrillas that has cost around 1,000 Lebanese and 101 Israeli lives in four weeks.
(7/06)
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Intensive Israeli bombing killed 14 people in Lebanon on Friday and Hizbollah said it had fired new longer-range rockets at Israel, as diplomacy to end the 17-day-old war marked time.
MANILA (Reuters) - The wake of typhoon Bilis swept away from the northern Philippines on Friday after killing at least 14 people, causing dozens of minor landslides and flooding large areas of the main island of Luzon, disaster officials said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombs killed nine people in Baghdad and gunmen shot dead five butchers in Mosul on Saturday, as President Bush warned that killing al Qaeda's leader in Iraq would not end violence.
(6/06)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombs killed nine people in Baghdad and gunmen shot dead five butchers in Mosul on Saturday, as President Bush warned that killing al Qaeda's leader in Iraq would not end violence.
(5/06)
KABUL (Reuters) - Eleven Taliban fighters and three policemen were killed when guerrillas attacked a convoy of provincial officials in southern Afghanistan, the government said on Tuesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Fourteen male bodies with bullet holes and showing signs of torture were found in Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.
(4/06)
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Two trains collided in Indonesia's Central Java province on Saturday killing 14 people and injuring 12, police said.
MARSABIT, Kenya (Reuters) - A Kenyan military plane crashed into a hillside on Monday and burst into flames, killing 14 people including two deputy ministers and four members of parliament.
(2/06)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 13 people and wounded 13 others on Tuesday when he set off explosives outside the police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a government spokesman said.
(1/06)
CAIRO (Reuters) - Fourteen people from Hong Kong were killed and 30 injured on Tuesday when a tourist bus overturned on a bend in the Safaga-Hurghada road on Egypt's Red Sea coast, a security source said.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels ambushed two army patrols in north-eastern Sri Lanka, killing one soldier, the army said on Monday as a search continued at sea for 13 sailors missing after an apparent suicide attack.
(11/05)
BEIJING (Reuters) - An earthquake killed 14 people, injured nearly 400 and destroyed 8,500 homes in Jiangxi province in eastern China on Saturday morning, the official Xinhua agency reported.
(10/05)
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces killed 14 Taliban militants in separate attacks in Afghanistan this week, the U.S. military said in a statement.
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - At least one million people were marooned on Monday by flooding in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal after five days of torrential rains left 14 dead, officials said.
(9/05)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber attacked an elite Iraqi police unit in Baghdad, killing 13 commandos in the worst of several outbursts of violence to hit the country on Sunday.
TAL AFAR, Iraq (Reuters) - The Iraqi army said it killed 14 insurgents and captured 35 on Tuesday as troops chased militants down the narrow streets of the rebel northern town of Tal Afar, on the fourth day of a major military assault.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A typhoon plowed into China south of Shanghai, killing at least 14 people on Sunday and Monday and leaving eight missing after forcing the evacuation of more than a million.
(8/05)
HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Finnish helicopter carrying 14 people crashed into the Baltic Sea off Estonia on Wednesday and Estonian officials said all on board were believed dead.
PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) - Fourteen people died and 20 were injured on Saturday when their Tunisair-operated flight from Italy to Tunisia made an emergency landing in the sea off Sicily after reporting a technical fault, Palermo's chief magistrate said.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Marxist rebels detonated a roadside bomb on Monday, killing 14 Colombian police officers in one of the deadliest attacks this year against security forces, police said.
(6/05)
PULWAMA, India (Reuters) - Fourteen people were killed and at least 100 injured on Monday when a powerful car bomb exploded near a school in a busy town in Indian Kashmir, security officials said.
KIEV (Reuters) - A freight train smashed into a bus at a level crossing in southern Ukraine on Thursday, killing 14 people, including two children, and injuring eight.
(5/05)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Saturday nine of its troops were killed in an offensive against insurgents and foreign fighters in western Iraq, and guerrillas struck again in Baghdad, leaving at least five people dead.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A dynamite explosion has destroyed several village houses in central China, killing 14 people, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
(3/05)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen in Baghdad shot and killed a judge working for the Iraqi special tribunal set up to try Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants, Interior Ministry officials said on Wednesday. Two car bombs in the capital killed 13 Iraqi soldiers and wounded dozens in the latest attacks targeting Iraq's security forces.
(2/05)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb exploded outside a Shi'ite mosque northeast of Baghdad as worshippers were leaving a religious ceremony Friday, killing at least 13 people, local police said.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian Marxist rebels bombarded a jungle Navy base with home-made missiles before dawn on Tuesday, killing 14 marines and wounding 25 others in the bloodiest attack on security forces for months, the Navy said.
(1/05)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed 14 Shi'ite worshippers as they left a Baghdad mosque on Friday in a campaign to divide Iraq's religious communities ahead of elections in nine days.
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Thirteen children and a teacher died Thursday when a faulty heater in their classroom in a village school in central Iran caught fire, blocking the doorway and suffocating them, an Interior Ministry official said.
AAYTHA, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S. warplane mistakenly bombed a house in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing several people in an attack likely to inflame anti-American anger ahead of controversial elections due at the end of the month. Furious residents of the village of Aaytha, south of the city of Mosul, said the air strike flattened a villa and killed 14 civilians. Reuters television pictures showed 14 freshly dug graves after the bombing in the early hours of Saturday.
(12/04)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber hit one of Iraq's biggest Shi'ite Muslim parties running in elections next month, killing 13 people but missing its leader -- hours before the most prominent Sunni party withdrew from the historic poll.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least 14 people Friday in the tense northern Baghdad neighborhood of Aadhamiya, police said.
(10/04)
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed 14 Palestinians in a Gaza refugee camp Monday as parliament prepared, under tight security, to debate Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the occupied territory.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombs and clashes killed 12 Iraqis Monday in a surge of Ramadan attacks that also claimed the lives of an Estonian and an American soldier.
(9/04)
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama declared a state of emergency on Saturday, a day after torrential rains and mudslides killed at least 14 people and wrecked or damaged the homes of about 10,000 people.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli tanks, helicopters and warplanes pounded a Hamas training camp on Tuesday, killing 14 militants in the deadliest ever strike against the Islamic faction a week after it carried out a double suicide bombing.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike on the Iraqi city of Falluja killed at least 14 people including a woman and three children, Iraqi doctors said early Thursday.
(8/04)
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan troops killed 14 rebels from the cult-like Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in a clash in neighboring southern Sudan, the army said on Thursday.
(7/04)
TOKYO (Reuters) - Heavy downpours lashed areas of northern Japan Saturday as they struggled to clean up following torrential rains earlier in the week, taking the death toll to 14, with one person missing.
TAIPEI (Reuters) - A typhoon lashed heavy rain over Taiwan, triggering widespread flooding and killing at least 14 people before weakening and heading toward southeast China, officials said on Saturday.
(6/04)
ASABA, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta state on Saturday as vigilante mobs hunted down suspected armed robbers, soaked them in petrol and then set them alight, witnesses said on Tuesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bombing sowed havoc in the heart of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 13 people, five of them foreign contractors in a passing convoy.
(5/04)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A bomb blast tore through a packed stadium, killing Chechnya's Moscow-backed leader Akhmad Kadyrov and at least 13 others Sunday in an attack that dealt a blow to President Vladimir Putin's efforts to stamp out rebellion.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas have killed nine government troops and five policemen as violence intensifies in Afghanistan's troubled south, Taliban officials said Tuesday.
(4/04)
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A gas leak caused an explosion in a restaurant in northern Mexico near the U.S. border on Saturday, killing at least 14 people as the building collapsed on breakfast diners, authorities said.
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundi's army and Hutu rebels fought for a second day on Thursday in a confrontation near the capital, Bujumbura, that has so far killed 14 people, the military said.
(3/04)
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - About 14 people have died in the northeast Syrian city of Kameshli in fighting at a soccer match and rioting by Kurds, and the interior minister has gone to the area to restore order, residents said on Saturday.
NUSSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Armored Israeli forces raided two Gaza refugee camps Sunday, igniting gunbattles that killed 14 Palestinians after militants staged an audacious attack on Israeli soldiers at Gaza's border.
(2/04)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed 13 policemen Monday in an Iraqi city riven with ethnic tension, the latest attack in an insurgency which Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld flew to Iraq to discuss with senior commanders.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Fourteen people were killed and 20 people injured when a truck plowed into a municipal bus and a minibus in southern Turkey, the state-run Anatolia news agency said Thursday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Rebels said they killed 14 policemen on Saturday in a shootout with the authorities who tried to retake control of Haiti's fourth largest city from an anti-government group, the rebels told local radio stations.
(1/04)
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Mud swept down an Indonesian mountain killing 14 people, including children and a pregnant woman, and flattening several houses after hours of torrential rain, an official said Friday.
(12/03)
(AP) - Authorities warned mountain community residents to brace for more rain and possible flooding as rescue workers continued to search for the victims of a mudslide that buried a church camp on Christmas Day. The total number of deaths from the disaster at the Greek Orthodox camp mounted to 12 on Sunday as five more bodies were recovered. Two other people died in another mudslide Thursday at a campground about five miles away.
(9/03)
BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - At least 14 people died and over 70 were injured when a packed Brazilian commuter bus plunged 50 meters (164 feet) off the side of a highway near Brazil's capital, police said on Saturday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A gas leak overnight at a plastics factory outside Baghdad killed at least 14 Iraqis and left scores sick and choking, local residents said on Friday.
(7/03)
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's death toll from forest fires rose to 14 on Wednesday and firefighters faced a possible upsurge in blazes as heatwave temperatures were expected to rise.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A huge car bomb tore through one of the top hotels in Indonesia's capital on Tuesday, killing 14 people and wounding 150 in the second major attack to shake the world's most populous Muslim nation in a year.
JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Indian troops killed 14 Muslim rebels, including 10 men who tried to enter Kashmir from Pakistan Friday, police said, a day after the army warned that separatists could step up attacks to derail peace efforts.
MONROVIA (Reuters) - Mortar bombs rained down on Liberia's capital on Friday, crashing into schools packed with refugees and killing at least 14 people as the city's residents begged foreign troops to come and stop the carnage.
(3/03)
MILAN (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed and about 80 injured in a massive traffic pile-up involving 200 vehicles on a northern Italian highway shrouded in thick fog, police said on Thursday.
(2/03)
MENA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Fourteen pilgrims were killed and several injured in Saudi Arabia Tuesday when they fell to the ground in heavy crowds marking Eid al-Adha, the most accident-prone part of the annual Muslim haj pilgrimage.
(12/02)
FRAIJANES, Guatemala (Reuters) - Authorities regained control of a medium-security prison outside Guatemala's capital on Tuesday after an inmate riot escalated overnight, leaving 14 prisoners dead, an official said.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Fourteen people, including four members of the same family, have been killed in fresh separatist violence in India's Jammu and Kashmir state, police said on Saturday.
(11/02)
HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Maoist rebels blew up a bus in a southern Indian state, killing 14 people and wounding 16, the state government said Tuesday.
(9/02)
PORTO EMPEDOCLE, Italy (Reuters) - At least fourteen people died on Sunday when a boat loaded with illegal immigrants from Liberia capsized off the southern coast of Sicily, coastguard officials said.
(8/02)
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed and 17 others were missing after one dam broke and another overflowed on Thursday, sending flood waters rushing through towns in two central Mexican states.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Suspected FARC rebels fired mortar shells on the presidential palace and a nearby slum, killing 14 people just blocks away from where right-winger Alvaro Uribe was being sworn in as president on Wednesday pledging to get tough with the Marxist guerrillas.
(7/02)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A large Russian airliner carrying 16 crew home from flight duty crashed into woods shortly after take-off from Moscow's biggest airport on Sunday, killing at least 14 people.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The Indonesian military said its troops shot dead Friday at least 13 men believed to be separatist rebels in troubled Aceh province, where thousands have died in more than two decades of fighting. The bloody clashes between security forces and guerrillas from the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), which also killed one soldier, occurred two weeks before Jakarta is expected to unveil its new policy for the area.
(5/02)
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in a car packed with explosives killed 11 French navy experts, two Pakistanis and himself Wednesday outside a hotel in Pakistan's volatile southern city of Karachi, officials said.
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Soldiers and paramilitary forces patrolled flashpoints in India's western Gujarat state Wednesday after at least 14 people were killed and nearly 50 injured in a fresh upsurge of Hindu-Muslim violence.
(4/02)
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Seven militants, five civilians and two soldiers were killed in rebel violence in India's revolt-racked Kashmir, which is at the center of a military standoff between India and Pakistan, police said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW (AP) A steamroller tumbled from a truck bed and crashed onto a passenger bus in central Russia on Tuesday, killing 14 passengers, emergency officials said.
GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines (Reuters) - Two explosions rocked a largely Christian city in the southern Philippines Sunday, killing 14 people and wounding about 50, in what police said could be attacks by Muslim extremists.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A small water taxi sank in rough seas during a trip from the Haitian mainland to the island of La Gonave, killing 14 people, local radio reported on Monday.
HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant in the Israeli port city of Haifa Sunday, killing at least 13 people, as Israeli troops tightened a siege on Yasser Arafat's headquarters.
(2/02)
Thirteen Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed on Thursday when troops, backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, stormed the West Bank camps in a ground offensive which Israeli officials said was aimed at crushing militant strongholds.
(5/01)
WELLTON, Ariz. (AP) -- Fourteen illegal immigrants have died and at least three others were still missing Thursday, five days after smugglers abandoned them in the blistering heat of the Arizona desert, the Border Patrol said.
(3/01)
VIMIEIRO, Portugal (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed and 25 injured on Saturday when a bus plunged 100 feet into a ravine in Portugal's second major road accident in three weeks, emergency services said.
(9/00)
SRINAGAR, India Sept 12 (Reuters) - Fourteen people, including five Indian soldiers, were killed in separate gunbattles across rebellion-torn Kashmir, police said on Tuesday. Separatist guerrillas stormed an army camp on the outskirts of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state, killing four soldiers and wounding five.
LIMA (Reuters) - At least 14 people died when a boat carrying teachers and children home from a local soccer match sank on a river in a remote jungle region of central Peru, police and hospital officials said Tuesday.
(7/00)
MANILA (Reuters) - A tropical storm that battered the main Philippine island of Luzon headed for southern China Thursday after killing 14 people and driving tens of thousands out of their homes.
(6/00)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Fourteen children lined up for a memorial service were trampled to death Monday when a crowd pushed and shoved to get in out of the rain, government radio said.
(5/00)
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed and five were missing after a mudslide buried 10 houses Tuesday in Guatemala's northern highlands, the Red Cross said Wednesday.
NASSAU, Bahamas (Reuters) - Fourteen migrants died and hundreds were stranded on an uninhabited cay when their boat broke down and ran aground in the remote southern Bahamas, U.S. and Bahamian officials said on Thursday.
(4/00)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- U.S. and British warplanes carried out bombing raids in southern Iraq on Thursday, and the Iraqi military said 14 civilians had been killed and 19 injured, the highest casualty claim made by Iraq in months.
(8/99)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Suspected Tamil rebels killed six Sri Lankan police commandos and six soldiers in two ambushes Wednesday, police and military officials said. In the eastern Ampara region, suspected rebels hiding in a forest peppered a police convoy with bullets, killing six commandos and wounding three, said a police official on condition of anonymity. The officers fired back, killing two rebels near the village of Karativu, 160 miles east of Colombo, the official said.
AMBON, Indonesia -- Religious violence and protests shook Indonesia on Thursday, with Christians and Muslims fighting in one province while demonstrators demanded independence for another. Violence in the eastern province of Maluku left 14 people dead Thursday, including an 11-year-old boy, when riot police dispersed rampaging gangs on the outskirts of the provincial capital, Ambon, witnesses said.
(7/99)
AMBON, Indonesia (AP) -- At least 14 people were killed and one was missing today as rampaging mobs clashed and set fire to dozens of buildings in Indonesia's eastern Maluku province, officials and witnesses said.
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JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- A van carrying 14 young people selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door overturned on a highway today, killing six passengers and injuring the others. Witnesses said bodies were strewn over the highway.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- An outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in Malaysia claimed its 14th victim after a pig farmer suspected to be suffering from the illness died today, a news report said.