(9/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - A massive car bomb exploded near the U.S. embassy in Kabul on Friday, killing at least 16 people including up to seven foreigners, the worst suicide attack in the city since the Taliban were overthrown in 2001.

(8/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed nine people outside the offices of a Kurdish political party in northern Iraq on Tuesday and clashes between gunmen loyal to an anti-American Shi'ite cleric and Iraqi soldiers killed six in the south.

(7/06)

MANAMA (Reuters) - Sixteen Indians were killed and another seven were injured in a blaze in a three-storey building in Bahrain's capital Manama on Sunday, officials said.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - At least 12 Sri Lankan soldiers and four Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in a firefight in the island's restive east on Friday, truce monitors said, in one of the worst military clashes since a 2002 ceasefire.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suicide bombers struck outside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone on Tuesday, killing 16 people, close to where parliament met in heated session to hear at least one lawmaker warn that civil war was close at hand.

(6/06)

WILKES-BARRE, PA (Reuters) - More than 150,000 people fled rising river waters threatening the historic town of Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday after floods killed at least 16 people in the rain-soaked eastern United States.

KABUL (Reuters) - Two foreign soldiers and 14 rebels have been killed in the latest clashes in the most serious spell of violence in Afghanistan since the Taliban were overthrown in 2001, military officials said on Wednesday.

(5/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents ambushed a convoy of Afghan government forces on Saturday and at least 16 people including two French soldiers were killed in heavy fighting, military officials said.

(4/06)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - At least six soldiers and 10 state security agents were killed in an ambush by leftist guerrillas in northeast Colombia on Thursday, as fighting increases ahead of May's presidential election.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Blasts blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels and riots that followed killed 16 people on Wednesday and injured dozens in northeast Sri Lanka, officials said, raising fears that peace talks might not happen and war might restart.

(3/06)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - At least 16 people, including 13 soldiers, were killed in a new outbreak of violence in Nepal on Monday, a day after Maoist rebels ended a crippling road blockade, the army and witnesses said.

(2/06)

DHAKA (Reuters) - At least 16 people were killed and 50 injured when a four-storey textile factory collapsed in Bangladesh's capital on Saturday, witnesses said.

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has warned farmers and ordered government agencies to prepare for heavy rains and flash floods from a stormy La Nina weather pattern that has already killed 16 in the country's southeastern provinces.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed at least 16 people and wounded 65 others in Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said.

(10/05)

TORONTO (Reuters) - Sixteen people have now died from a mystery viral outbreak at a Toronto nursing home and 38 are in hospital, health officials said on Wednesday, as testing continued to uncover the cause of the illness.

(9/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen dressed as policemen shot dead five Shi'ite teachers and a driver in their school south of Baghdad on Monday, and a suicide bomber killed 10 people when he rammed a bus full of Oil Ministry employees.

MANILA (Reuters) - Typhoon Damrey swept away from the northern Philippines on Friday after killing at least 16 people across the main island of Luzon, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said.

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb shattered the relative peace of the southern Iraqi city of Basra after dark on Wednesday, killing 16 people and wounding 20 in a district packed with restaurants, officials said.

PARIS (Reuters) - The death toll in a suspected arson attack in a high-rise apartment block in Paris has risen to 16 and a fourth girl has been arrested in connection with the blaze, the police said on Monday.

(8/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces backed by a giant B-52 bomber, A-10 attack aircraft and helicopters killed an estimated 16 militants in southern Afghanistan in the past two days, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

(7/05)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A suspected gas explosion tore through a shop in northern Russia on Monday, killing 16 people, officials said. "The explosion took place in a two-story brick building. We are trying to discover the reason," said Emergencies Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov.

(6/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. military Chinook helicopter capable of carrying more than 30 people crashed on an anti-guerrilla mission in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday but the fate of those on board was not immediately known. The U.S. military was unable to say how many were on board but CNN quoted an unidentified U.S. military official as saying "about 16 U.S. troops" were on the helicopter.

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - The bodies of 16 people killed execution-style have been discovered in western Iraq, witnesses said on Friday, the latest grisly killings fueling fears of civil war in Iraq.

(5/05)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian helicopters, ground attack aircraft and troops killed 16 Marxist rebels in a weekend joint air-ground attack on a guerrilla column in the country's south, the air force said on Thursday.

(4/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. military helicopter crashed during a dust storm in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people aboard -- the deadliest military air accident since Washington first deployed troops to the country in 2001.

(3/05)

BALAD, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew up his car outside the house of Iraqi army officer in Balad, north of Baghdad, Monday, killing at least 15 people, police said.

(1/05)

TEHRAN (Reuters) - At least 16 people were killed and several injured in northern Iran on Friday when a landslide caused a bus to crash into a valley.

(12/04)

CARACAS, Venezuela, Dec 10 (Reuters) - A Venezuelan military aircraft crashed into a mountainside west of Caracas on Friday, killing 16 passengers and crew-members aboard including several senior officers, authorities said.

(11/04)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An earthquake registering 6.0 on the Richter scale shook a remote island in eastern Indonesia on Friday, killing 16 people and injuring dozens more, a government official said.

(10/04)

MEDEA, Algeria (Reuters) - Suspected Algerian Islamic militants killed 16 people in the first attack on civilians since the start of the holy month of Ramadan, officials said on Saturday.

(7/04)

ANKARA (Reuters) - Sixteen people were killed and 50 injured on Friday when an earthquake hit villages in the northeastern Turkish province of Agri, Turkish media said. Local officials said many houses had collapsed in the quake, which struck three villages in Dogubayazit district near the Iranian border at 1:30 a.m. (1830 GMT), but no one was believed to be still buried in the rubble.

(6/04)

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas kidnapped and killed 16 people in an Afghan province after finding them with voter registration cards for the country's September elections, officials said Sunday.

DHAKA (Reuters) - Rescuers with sniffer dogs pulled five more bodies from the debris of a collapsed building in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 16, police said.

(5/04)

KARACHI (Reuters) - A bomb killed at least 15 people at evening prayers in a Shi'ite mosque on Monday in Pakistan's southern city Karachi, where a senior cleric from the majority Sunni sect was shot dead a day earlier.

(1/04)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least eight children on their way home from school were among those killed on Tuesday when a powerful blast ripped through a truck in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, and dozens more were injured. General Abdul Wasi, spokesman for the corps commander of Kandahar province, told Reuters that 12 people had died, but state-run Kabul TV later reported the death toll had risen to 16, with 52 people wounded.

(3/03)

TAIPEI (Reuters) - At least 16 holidaymakers were killed after one of the world's few alpine trains derailed on Saturday midway up Taiwan's Alishan mountain, among the island's best-known tourist spots, officials said.

(10/02)

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Tuesday defended an Israeli raid that killed 16 Palestinians and vowed further strikes in the Gaza Strip despite international condemnation and concern in the White House.

(9/02)

KABUL (Reuters) - At least 16 people have been killed in fighting between two rival Afghan tribes in the southeastern province of Khost, residents said on Sunday.

(6/02)

(AP) - An Islamic militant drove a car packed with explosives alongside an Israeli bus Wednesday and then ignited a huge fireball that flipped the bus over twice. Sixteen passengers were killed and dozens wounded in the attack on the 35th anniversary of the 1967 Mideast War. In response, Israel sent two dozen tanks into the West Bank town of Jenin, according to Palestinian security officials.

(3/02)

(AP) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a hotel dining room in the Israeli coastal resort of Netanya on Wednesday as guests gathered for a Passover Seder, the ritual evening meal ushering in the Jewish holiday. Police said 15 people were killed and more than 100 wounded.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Elite U.S. troops killed 16 people on Sunday in an attack on a convoy believed carrying fleeing al Qaeda guerrillas in eastern Afghanistan, defense officials said on Monday.

(1/02)

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippine troops, backed by bomber planes, killed 16 Muslim guerrillas linked to the al Qaeda network in three days of fighting on the southern island of Jolo, the Philippine military said Sunday.

(8/01)

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinians vowed to step up their revolt Friday after Israel seized their headquarters in East Jerusalem in a politically charged response to a suicide bombing that killed 16 people.

(5/01)

JERUSALEM -- Israeli F-16 warplanes struck Palestinian security targets Friday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip -- a first since the 1967 Middle East war -- in retaliation for a suicide attack at a shopping mall. Ten Palestinians and six Israelis were killed in one of the deadliest days in eight months of fighting.

(4/01)

THANH TRACH, Vietnam (AP) -- American officials on Monday combed through the wreckage of a helicopter crash that killed 16 members of an MIA search team, including the Army veteran who was to take over command of the task force.

(3/01)

LISBON (Reuters) - Sixteen people died when a passenger plane crashed into mountains near the southwest Angolan city of Lubango on Saturday, Portugal's Lusa news agency reported. Lusa said that one person, a 25-year-old Angolan member of the flight crew, had survived the accident which occurred when the plane was coming into land on a flight from Luanda to Lubango, capital of the province of Huila.

(3/00)

BEIJING (AP) Stronger than usual seasonal winds have swept through Beijing and other parts of northern China this spring, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens more.

(9/99)

DILI, East Timor (AP) -- After an often brutal 24-year occupation, Indonesian troops handed over control of East Timor to international peacekeepers today, leaving only a token force behind. Also today, Roman Catholic church officials and news agencies reported that two nuns and several other members of a church group died in a weekend attack. One agency said up to 16 people were slain in the attack by pro-Indonesian militiamen.

(8/99)

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Indian fighter planes shot down a Pakistani surveillance aircraft today. A navy spokesman said 16 servicemen were killed. Both of the nuclear-armed neighbors claimed the plane was shot down in their territory.

(7/99)

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - At least 16 people have been killed in separate incidents of violence including a grenade blast and shootouts in the strife-torn northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said Wednesday.

(6/99)

HONG KONG (AP) -- As fire engulfed an electronics factory in south China, managers ordered workers to save property instead of rescuing endangered colleagues, and 16 people were killed, a Chinese media report said.

(1/99)

HANOI -- An explosion in a Vietnamese coal mine has killed 16 workers and seriously injured three others, a senior mine official said on Tuesday. The official from Mao Khe coal mine in northern Quang Ninh province, 160 km (100 miles) northeast of Hanoi, said the explosion occured on Monday. He did not elaborate but said investigators were looking into possible causes for the blast.