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(8/06)

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed more than 140 people in Pakistan's northwest, and forced hundreds of thousands out of their homes in neighboring India, officials said on Monday.


(7/06)

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - One of Mogadishu's last warlords holding out against powerful Islamists surrendered after losing most of his territory in two days of fighting that killed more than 140 people, militia sources said on Tuesday.


(7/04)

DHAKA (Reuters) - A boat carrying people to a flood shelter capsized in Bangladesh on Tuesday pushing the death toll higher as the worst flooding in years turned the capital, Dhaka, into an open sewer and disease spread. The death toll from three weeks of devastation in Bangladesh is more than 400 and across south Asia floods have killed more than 1,000, officials said.


(6/04)

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Bangladeshi rescuers, battling rough seas, were searching on Sunday for around 140 fishermen missing after a storm sank 20 boats in the Bay of Bengal, police said.


(2/03)

PIKIT, Philippines (Reuters) - The Philippine military said on Thursday it may have killed nearly 140 Muslim guerrillas in three days of heavy fighting that shattered a shaky cease-fire on the southern island of Mindanao.


(10/01)

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - U.S. raids on Afghanistan have killed more than 140 people in the last 24 hours, including dozens in one strike on a village near Jalalabad, Afghan Islamic Press said Thursday.


(1/00)

GUDERMES, Russia -- The Russian military claimed today that its forces repelled a rebel attempt to break out of Grozny and up to 140 militants were killed in street battles in the Chechen capital.


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