(12/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bomb blasts killed 15 people in Baghdad on Wednesday and suicide bombers attacked an Iraqi army base as President Bush ended a three-day review of Iraq policy and said he would not be rushed into making changes.

(10/06)

DHAKA (Reuters) - A packed ferry sank in a Bangladeshi river on Monday after a collision with a cargo vessel, killing at least 15 people, officials said.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Fifteen Tamil Tiger rebels were killed on Wednesday when they attacked a naval base in southern Sri Lanka, triggering brief looting of minority Tamil shops in the area and dealing a fresh blow to a battered peace process.

(8/06)

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's biggest city declared a public holiday on Friday as it cleaned up from heavy flooding that killed at least 15 people and more rain was expected, officials said.

TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Fifteen local aid staff working on post-tsunami rebuilding have been found executed in northeast Sri Lanka after heavy fighting, the main umbrella body for aid agencies in the country said on Sunday.

(7/06)

ABUJA (Reuters) - The latest violence linked to next year's elections in Nigeria has killed at least 15 people in two southern states, local leaders and police said on Monday.

KUFA, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb hit a group of laborers near a Shi'ite mosque in the southern Iraqi city of Kufa on Tuesday, killing 15 and wounding 21, police said.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinians in clashes in Gaza and the occupied West Bank on Wednesday in one of the worst days of violence since Israel launched an offensive to free an abducted soldier.

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian soldiers killed at least 15 Marxist rebels in four separate clashes across the country on Tuesday, the army said.

(4/06)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - At least 15 people were killed on Thursday when a landslide and floods triggered by weeks of torrential rain swept through a town on Indonesia's Java island, a government official said.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Fifteen people including 11 civilians have been killed in clashes between militia fighters in southern Sudan since Saturday, straining a deal that ended the country's north-south civil war, officials said on Monday.

(3/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen in Baghdad killed at least 15 Shi'ite pilgrims and wounded dozens on Wednesday, raking vehicles with machinegun fire in the latest outbreak of sectarian violence that threatens Iraq with civil war.

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - At least 15 people were killed and scores wounded by three bomb blasts which hit the Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi in northern India within a span of 45 minutes on Tuesday, police said.

(2/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Mortar fire killed 15 people and shooting erupted around two Baghdad mosques on Sunday but pleas for unity and a third day of curfew in the city seemed to dampen sectarian violence that has pitched Iraq toward civil war.

(1/06)

BAD REICHENHALL, Germany (Reuters) - German rescue services pulled a 15th and presumed last body early on Thursday from the wreckage of a collapsed ice rink as the country asked how it could avoid a repeat of the tragedy.

(12/05)

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Islamic militants in Pakistan strung up bodies of bandits and displayed the head of one on a pole on Wednesday after clashes in a troubled region bordering Afghanistan in which 15 people were killed.

(11/05)

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine soldiers killed about 15 suspected Islamic militants with ties to al Qaeda in a ground assault after a wave of air strikes on the southwestern island of Jolo, an army general said on Friday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were among at least 15 people killed in a bloody day of suicide car bombings in and around Baghdad on Monday as a major offensive against Sunni Arab insurgents took place near Iraq's border with Syria.

HANOI (Reuters) - At least 15 people died and a Filipino was missing in central Vietnam as a typhoon nearing the coast dumped heavy rains and triggered floods in a region where bad weather has killed nearly 30 people in the past two weeks.

(10/05)

BEIJING (Reuters) - The death toll from Typhoon Longwang in China climbed to 15 people and dozens of military students were still missing, media reported on Tuesday.

(9/05)

GAZA (Reuters) - An explosion at a militant Hamas rally killed at least 15 Palestinians, including children and gunmen, in the Gaza Strip on Friday in the first deadly incident in the territory since Israel completed its withdrawal.

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas killed seven people in Afghanistan after finding them with voter cards for this Sunday's elections, and eight more deaths were reported in other insurgent violence, officials said on Wednesday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Typhoon Nabi faded into a tropical storm and headed out to sea on Wednesday after killing at least 15 people in southwestern Japan.

(8/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents blew up a U.S. assault vehicle in western Iraq on Wednesday, killing 14 Marines and a civilian interpreter in the deadliest roadside bomb attack against American forces since the war began.

(7/05)

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish security forces have killed 15 guerrillas from the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and seized a number of arms and documents, security officials said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Around 15 people were killed and more than 20 injured on Tuesday when an armored police carrier was blown up by rebels in Russia's Chechnya.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian forces said they killed 15 Muslim militants who were trying to cross into its part of Kashmir from Pakistan on Saturday, the latest of a series of clashes on the disputed frontier in less than a week.

(5/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb exploded at a market in a mostly Shi'ite part of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 14 people in escalating violence that has claimed more than 400 lives since a new government was named two weeks ago.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - All 15 people aboard a plane that crashed in remote northeastern Australia were confirmed dead on Sunday, making it the country's worst civilian air disaster in nearly four decades.

(4/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded near a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 15 people, a police official said.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Militants shot and killed 15 Iraqi soldiers south of Baghdad, Iraqi police said Saturday.

(3/05)

SANAA (Reuters) - At least eight Islamic militants were killed in Yemen Monday after they gunned down seven policemen in an attack on a police station and an ambush, the official Saba news agency reported.

TEXAS CITY, Texas (Reuters) - BP Chief Executive John Browne declared the company's Texas City, Texas, refinery "a very safe plant" Thursday as the death toll in Wednesday's explosion there climbed to 15.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A helicopter crash in Russia's rebel Chechnya killed 15 servicemen, officials said on Friday, while local media said the victims came from the elite special forces.

(2/05)

KATHMANDU, Nepal (Reuters) - At least 15 people, including a senior police officer, were killed in violence in Nepal, authorities said Sunday, a day after Maoists ended a crippling road blockade against King Gyanendra's power grab.

(1/05)

LONDON (Reuters) - Up to 15 British troops were killed on Sunday when a transport plane crashed near Baghdad in what could be Britain's biggest single loss of life of the Iraq campaign, a British military source said.

MAI MAHIU, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan tribal warriors set huts ablaze near a trading post northwest of Nairobi on Monday after weekend clashes over access to water that killed 15 people, witnesses said.

DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group said on Saturday it had shot dead 15 National Guards it captured last week.

(12/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber plowed into a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad after dawn prayers on Friday, killing 14 people and fueling fears that sectarian divisions over when to hold elections could unleash further bloodshed.

(10/04)

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - At least one rocket hit a hotel used by migrant workers in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit on Sunday, killing 15 Iraqis and wounding about eight, witnesses said.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Fifteen people were killed on Saturday and several critically injured when the bus taking them to a Mississippi casino rolled over in northeastern Arkansas, police said.

(9/04)

U.S. Air Attacks in Falluja Kill 15 in 24 Hours -- FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. aircraft blasted the rebel stronghold of Falluja for a third time in 24 hours in a concerted effort to hit militants loyal to guerrilla chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Washington's number one enemy in Iraq.

(8/04)

HSINCHU, Taiwan (Reuters) - Rescue workers pulled 24 survivors from the wreckage of a mountain village in Taiwan Thursday after a torrent of mud and rock triggered by a typhoon buried the area, leaving 15 people feared dead.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - At least 15 people were buried when a landslide triggered by a fierce typhoon struck a mountain village in Taiwan, a government official said on Thursday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A helicopter crashed in Russia on Thursday killing all 15 people aboard, and initial reports said it had been on patrol with a contingent of firemen searching for forest fires.

(7/04)

GHISLENGHIEN, Belgium (Reuters) - A leaking gas pipeline in Belgium exploded Friday, hurling giant fireballs into the air and killing at least 15 people in the biggest industrial disaster in the country in nearly four decades.

ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish passenger train hit a bus on Sunday, killing 15 people on board, the state-run Anatolian news agency said. The crash in western Turkey comes just three days after a recently inaugurated high-speed train between Istanbul and Ankara came off the rails, killing 37 people and injuring 81.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - At least 15 people were killed and many more injured when a crowded bus skidded off a road and fell into a gorge in Indian Kashmir on Saturday, police said.

(5/04)

KARACHI (Reuters) - A suicide attacker detonated a powerful bomb in a crowded Shi'ite mosque in the business district of the Pakistani city of Karachi Friday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 125, police said.

(4/04)

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops and Iraqi guerrillas fought fierce clashes overnight in the western city of Falluja and 15 Iraqis were killed, witnesses and a medical official said on Friday.

NASSIRIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Italian troops clashed with Shi'ite militiamen in the southern Iraq town of Nassiriya on Tuesday in gunfights that killed around 15 Iraqis and wounded 12 Italians, the Italian military and coalition sources said.

(3/04)

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Fifteen Pakistani soldiers have been killed since Thursday in heavy fighting with a group of militants, possibly including a top al Qaeda member, on the Afghan border, a government official said.

(2/04)

GAZA (Reuters) - In their deadliest strike in months, Israeli troops killed at least 15 Palestinians in gunbattles in the Gaza Strip Wednesday during raids Israel said were to root out militants attacking Jewish settlements.

HANOI (Reuters) - The death toll from Asia's bird flu outbreak rose to 15 Wednesday as the virus ravaged poultry flocks in 10 countries and, most worrying, spread in China.

(1/04)

ATHENS (Reuters) - A freighter sank in rough seas in the Mediterranean early on Friday and at least 15 of the 17 crew were missing, authorities said.

(11/03)

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - At least 15 immigrant settlers were gunned down by suspected separatist rebels on Saturday in India's troubled northeastern state of Assam, officials said, in a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence.

(10/03)

LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - At least 15 people were killed on Monday when Bolivian police clashed with protesters armed with slings and stones demanding the removal of President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada over a host of grievances.

(9/03)

INDIA: India killed 15 militants overnight Sept. 28 as they attempted to cross into Indian-controlled Kashmir from Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, Indian military officials said. The fight in the Kunzarwano forest in Gurez, 110 miles north of Srinagar, came a day after Indian intelligence officials warned that about 1,600 militants, including 20 suicide squads, were preparing to cross the Line of Control into Indian-controlled Kashmir.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - At least 15 people were killed in a gunbattle in the stronghold of Ivory Coast's rebels on Friday as rival armed bands fought for a share of loot from a bank blown open by robbers, rebels said.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian suicide bombers killed at least 13 people in two separate attacks just hours apart in Israel, hitting back hard after a wave of Israeli air strikes against Islamic militants.

(7/03)

KABUL (Reuters) - At least 15 Afghans were killed and five wounded when a car bomb exploded in the southern province of Helmand on Wednesday, a provincial official said.

(2/03)

DALLAS (Reuters) - At least 15 people were killed as frigid temperatures, sleet and freezing rain blanketed parts of the U.S. Southwest, snarling transport and causing hundreds of fender-benders among drivers not used to the winter conditions, officials said on Wednesday.

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Leftist rebels detonated a house full of mortars during a police raid in a house in southern Colombia on Friday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 30, investigators said.

(1/03)

SUVA, Fiji (Reuters) - At least 15 people, including nine members of a family swept away by floodwaters, were killed in Fiji after Tropical Cyclone Ami tore through the South Pacific nation early this week, officials and survivors said Thursday.

(12/02)

DALLAS (Reuters) - A winter storm rolled through the southwest and central sections of the United States on Tuesday, causing at least 15 deaths and bringing an unexpected White Christmas to parts of the country that seldom see snow.

(10/02)

KARKUR JUNCTION, Israel (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber killed at least 14 people and injured about 50 on Monday by detonating explosives packed into a car next to a bus in northern Israel, police said.

(9/02)

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai survived an assassination attempt in the southern city of Kandahar Thursday shortly after a powerful car bomb killed at least 15 people in the heart of the capital Kabul.

(8/02)

BINIZAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least 15 people were killed in a shootout between Afghan police and what witnesses said was a gang of Arabs and Pakistanis south of the capital Wednesday.

(7/02)

GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli fighter plane fired missiles into a crowded neighborhood in Gaza City Tuesday, killing the commander of the military wing of Hamas and 14 other Palestinians including nine children.

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - At least 14 Colombian rebels and one army soldier died in jungle clashes in the far north and south of the war-torn Andean nation, with the bulk of the combat near a former rebel stronghold, military sources said on Wednesday.

(5/02)

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A defiant Yasser Arafat emerged from his shattered headquarters on Thursday at the end of a month-long Israeli siege, flashing a V-for-victory sign to cheering supporters. In a sign that tensions remain high, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian, identified by witnesses as a security force member, and wounded two other people in the Church of the Nativity compound in Bethlehem.

(4/02)

Fifteen Killed in Kashmir Shootouts, Leader Held // SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian police detained a separatist leader in the revolt-racked state of Kashmir after another weekend of deadly clashes between militants and the military.

(3/02)

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Violence left 15 people dead in India's revolt-racked Kashmir region that is at the heart of a military standoff between India and Pakistan, security officials said.

(1/02)

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Thirteen rebels and two Indian soldiers were killed in gunbattles in Jammu and Kashmir where another person was injured as India and Pakistan exchanged fire across their border, police said Sunday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - Elite U.S. troops attacked two guerrilla compounds in southern Afghanistan Thursday, killing up to 15 Taliban fighters and capturing 27 others, Pentagon officials said. One U.S. soldier was wounded.

(12/01)

TOKYO (Reuters) - A mystery ship that intruded into Japanese waters sank after an armed conflict with Japanese coast guard ships in the East China Sea, leaving 15 crew lost at sea, Japanese officials said.

(9/01)

ZUG, Switzerland (AP) - A Swiss man with a grudge against local officials sprayed assault rifle fire and set off an explosive during a session of a state parliament Thursday, killing 14 people before turning the gun on himself, officials said.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A yellow fever outbreak has killed at least 15 people in Ivory Coast and threatens many more in the West African country, the head of a government crisis team said Friday.

(2/01)

NAZRAN, Russia -- The latest string of rebel attacks and bombings has killed 15 Russian servicemen in Chechnya, a government official said Wednesday, reflecting the uphill battle the Russian military is facing against outgunned but agile Chechen rebels.

(10/00)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A car bomb killed up to 15 people and wounded more than a dozen in Grozny Thursday in one of the worst attacks in Chechnya for months, Russian news reports said.

(9/00)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A car bomb tore through a packed garage under Jakarta's stock exchange Wednesday, killing at least 15 people in a storm of fire and debris and rekindling fear in a city plagued by violence.

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- At least 15 people have died after drinking cocktails laced with rubbing alcohol at a weekend party in Peru's Amazon region, health officials said Tuesday. Another 14 people were hospitalized, one person in critical condition, after drinking homemade alcohol drinks at a birthday party Friday in the northeastern city of Pucullpa, some 300 miles northeast of Lima.

(7/00)

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) -- A six-story building collapsed after a devastating blaze while firefighters and workers were inside, killing 15 people including the commander of the city's fire brigade, officials said Thursday.

(6/00)

CHILDERS, Australia (AP) -- Police investigating a suspicious fire that killed 15 young backpackers at a hostel said Monday they had a suicide note possibly signed by a drifter wanted for questioning in the blaze.

(5/00)

JOLO, Philippines, May 3 (Reuters) - The southern Philippines was rocked by a wave of violence on Wednesday with Islamic rebels seizing 100 hostages and launching grenades at an airport while bomb explosions in a major port city killed up to 15.

(4/00)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said Monday that 15 of its troops died in a Chechen rebel attack on an army column southeast of the regional capital Grozny in which the guerrillas claimed to have killed 80 men.

(3/00)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- A bomb exploded in the commercial center of the Sri Lankan capital during evening rush hour today, killing 15 people and injuring at least 46, authorities said.

(12/99)

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- An airplane carrying 15 passengers and two crew members crashed today on a flight from Manila to the northern Philippines. At least six bodies were recovered from the 19-seat Asian Spirit plane, which crashed in the mountainous area of Kasibu in Nueva Vizcaya province, said General Rodolfo Garcia, commander of the army's 5th Infantry.

(9/99)

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- A landslide swept through four villages on the slopes of Mt. Elgon in eastern Uganda, killing at least 15 people, a police spokesman said today. The landslide followed heavy rains in Manyiya country, about 155 miles northeast of Kampala.

(5/99)

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- NATO hit a residential area in Yugoslavia's third-largest city today, reportedly killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens in a strike near a hospital and a marketplace.

(4/99)

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- Worried about bombs and booby traps, specially trained officers painstakingly checked thousands of lockers and castoff backpacks today in a suburban high school where 15 people were killed in the deadliest U.S. school rampage on record. Close to 30 explosive devices were found.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Fifteen people were killed in separatist violence in India's troubled northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said Tuesday. Seven people were killed and 26 seriously injured on Tuesday when a bomb exploded near a bridge on the outskirts of Rajouri, 110 miles north of Jammu, the state's winter capital.

(1/99)

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Serb forces clashed with ethnic Albanian rebels today in three villages in southern Kosovo, and Serb sources reported at least 15 guerrillas were killed. A Western source on the international peace verification team said fighting was raging in Racak and two other villages near Stimlje, about 16 miles south of the provincial capital, Pristina.