(12/06)

ZURICH (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed and 140 missing after two boats packed with people fleeing Somalia capsized off the coast of Yemen, the U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday.

(11/06)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Seventeen miners were killed and dozens were missing after a blast tore through a coal mine in northern China, state media reported on Monday, adding to the country's grim string of mining calamities.

(10/06)

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen ambushed a minibus carrying police translators, trainers and cleaning workers from a police academy to the southern city of Basra on Sunday, killing 17 people, a police source said.

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Militants said they killed 17 soldiers in two separate gun battles in Nigeria's oil heartland on Wednesday and threatened imminent attacks on strategic oil facilities.

(9/06)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Six teen-age boys were shot to death execution-style in northern Mexico, police said on Saturday, bringing the death toll from a week of violence linked to turf battles between drug gangs to at least 17.

(8/06)

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An Iranian bus crashed in southeastern Turkey on Friday, killing 17 people on board, the Anatolian state news agency reported.

BEIJING (Reuters) - An outbreak of mosquito-borne encephalitis B has killed 17 people in a city in northern China in the past two weeks, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Seventeen people died in a plane crash in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, a United Nations spokeswoman said.

(7/06)

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed and 28 injured in central Venezuela on Saturday when a packed bus veered off a highway and crashed into a mountainside, rescue services said.

(5/06)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Seventeen people are missing after a landslide at a gold mine in northwest China engulfed their homes, Xinhua news agency reported.

(1/06)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Sixteen Maoist rebels and a soldier were killed on Saturday, in the biggest battle in Nepal since a guerrilla ceasefire ended this month, the army said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing all 12 people on board, and five Marines died in a spate of attacks in the west of the country on one of the worst weekends for the U.S. military since the 2003 invasion.

(11/05)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese coal mine gas leak has killed 17 people, the latest in an all-too-familiar series of fatal accidents, just as state media trumpeted government officials pulling out their investment in the industry.

(10/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi insurgents killed at least 16 people in two strikes on Thursday, sending a suicide bomber to blow up a bus near the oil ministry in Baghdad and shooting oil ministry security guards in the north.

(8/05)

PARIS (Reuters) - A fire tore through a six-storey Paris apartment block on Friday, killing 17 people -- some of them children -- and injuring around 30, French officials said.

KABUL/MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish military helicopter crashed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing all 17 on board, and Spain's defense minister said investigators had not ruled out hostile fire.

(7/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - About 10 gunmen emptied their automatic rifles into a bus carrying Iraqi workers from a factory west of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing up to 17 people, police and hospital sources said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Authorities in southwest China are investigating a mysterious disease that has killed 17 farm workers and left at least 12 critically ill after they handled sick or dead livestock, the official China Daily said Monday.

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 17 suspected foreign militants, along with women and children, were killed in a clash with Pakistani security forces on Sunday near the Afghan border, the Pakistan military said.

(6/05)

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Up to 16 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on Iraqi soldiers near Mosul on Sunday, a U.S. military spokesman in the northern city said, giving what he said were preliminary accounts.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four car bombs shook Baghdad after dawn on Thursday, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens in the second wave of attacks within hours, police said.

(4/05)

SAMLAYA, India (Reuters) - A passenger train slammed into a stationary goods train in western India on Thursday, killing at least 17 people, police and railway officials said.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Searchers found Sunday the wreckage of a light plane that crashed into a mountain in Indonesia's remote Papua province, killing all 17 people on board, the official Antara news agency reported.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Twin suicide car bombs killed at least 15 people during the morning rush hour in central Baghdad on Thursday, cutting short what had appeared to be a lull in violence since elections in January.

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Marxist rebels killed at least 17 Colombian soldiers in an ambush on Wednesday when they blasted patrol vehicles with mines and then finished off survivors with shots to the head, the army said.

(3/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two suicide car bomb attacks in Iraq killed at least 15 people and wounded 23 including two U.S. soldiers, American and Iraqi officers said Friday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A gas explosion in a northern Chinese coal mine on Saturday killed at least 17 miners and trapped 52 others, state media said, in the latest tragedy to strike the world's deadliest mining industry.

(1/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents killed 17 Iraqi police and National Guards Monday in a string of bloody ambushes, bombings and suicide attacks aimed at wrecking Iraq's Jan. 30 national election.

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Left-wing rebels killed at least 17 peasants in northeast Colombia on New Year's Eve in reprisal for cooperating with far-right paramilitaries, police and local authorities said Saturday.

(12/04)

ALGIERS (Reuters) - A gas explosion Sunday killed 17 people and injured at least 40 others when a residential block collapsed in eastern Algeria, local authorities said.

(10/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suspected suicide car bomb killed up to 17 people near Baghdad's Oil Ministry and a nearby police academy Sunday, a spokesman for the ministry said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed 16 people at a National Guard center in western Iraq on Wednesday as U.S. and Iraqi forces struggled to quell insurgents bent on derailing elections due in January.

(8/04)

KABUL (Reuters) - At least 17 people including children were killed in a bomb attack in Kabul on Sunday and another blast overnight at a religious school in the southeast.

DHAKA (Reuters) - Extra armed police patrolled the streets of the Bangladeshi capital and traffic was light on Sunday, a working day, as shocked Bangladeshis woke up to the aftermath of grenade blasts that killed at least 17 people.

(7/04)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A truck crashed into a house packed with guests at a wedding reception in Indonesia on Sunday, killing 17 and injuring 13, a police official said.

(6/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb blast in the Iraqi town of Hilla on Saturday killed 17 Iraqi civilians and wounded around 40, the U.S. military said in a statement.

WARRI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian troops killed 17 armed bandits in oil-rich Delta state, as military operations intensified to disarm criminals engaged in oil theft and piracy in the Niger delta, an army general said on Saturday.

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces killed 17 Taliban guerrillas in clashes in a restive region of southern Afghanistan, officials said on Friday.

(5/04)

KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi commandos freed dozens of foreign hostages in a raid on Sunday to end an attack on the Saudi oil industry launched by suspected al Qaeda militants who had earlier killed at least 17 foreigners. Security sources said several hostages had been killed during the rescue operation at the upscale Oasis housing compound after a 25-hour drama in the oil city of Khobar.

(2/04)

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed and others injured on Saturday when two earthquakes struck remote mountain districts of northern Pakistan.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Seventeen people, including 12 rebels, were killed in gunbattles across Kashmir on Friday, the largest one-day death toll since New Delhi began talks with Kashmir's main separatist alliance last month.

(12/03)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A fuel truck bomb killed at least 17 people in a huge fireball that incinerated cars on a Baghdad street on Wednesday as debate over how to mete out justice to Saddam Hussein rippled across the globe.

KHALIDIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb ripped through a police station west of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 17 people, in the latest attack on the force central to Washington's plans to hand over power to Iraqis.

(11/03)

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Seventeen soldiers died when guerrillas downed two U.S. helicopters in Iraq on Saturday, just hours after a faster timetable for self-rule was unveiled which Washington hopes will pacify Iraqi resentment.

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia vowed militants would not be able to destabilize it after suicide bombers killed at least 17 people at a Riyadh housing compound, but the United States warned al Qaeda might be planning more attacks.

(10/03)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least 17 people have been killed in clashes involving Afghan government soldiers, Taliban guerrillas and U.S.-led forces in southern Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.

(9/03)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombia's army on Monday said it had killed 17 guerrillas and captured 114 in the past six days in one of the biggest offensives against Marxist rebels this year.

(8/03)

NEPALGUNJ, Nepal (Reuters) - Peace talks between Maoist rebels and the Nepali government resumed on Monday despite the killing of 17 guerrillas in the biggest clash with government troops since a January cease-fire, officials said.

(7/03)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The death toll from Thursday's truck bomb attack on the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad has risen to 17, a hospital official said on Friday.

(2/03)

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Provincial Afghan authorities said at least 17 civilians had been killed in bombing raids by U.S.-led forces that Washington says are aimed at rooting out remnants of the Taliban.

(1/03)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A bus packed with school children plunged off a mountain road in southwest China into a river, police said on Sunday, and Chinese media reported at least 17 people were killed.

(12/02)

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh arrested dozens of opposition activists after bombs ripped through cinemas in a northern town, killing 17 people as families celebrated the end of the Muslim fasting month, officials said Sunday.

(11/02)

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Aftershocks hampered relief efforts for 2,000 people displaced by earthquakes in Pakistan's mountainous north on Monday as the recorded death toll rose to 17.

(10/02)

LONDON (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed and two blown out to sea on Sunday as winds gusting up to 100 mph swept across northern Europe, wreaking havoc on roads and railways and disrupting flights and shipping.

(9/02)

SRINAGAR (Reuters) - Indian security forces killed 17 militants who tried to cross into Indian Kashmir from Pakistan to try to disrupt Monday's elections in the state, the state government said.

(6/02)

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Violence flared in the disputed Kashmir region, at the core of a fight between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, with 17 people, including 15 rebels, killed in separate gunbattles, officials said on Friday.

(4/02)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - At least 17 Maoist rebels were killed in a new clash with soldiers following last week's assault on two security posts in which more than 300 people died, state radio said on Monday.

(12/01)

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- Medical experts from the World Health Organization flew to central Congo on Thursday to investigate the deaths of 17 people with Ebola-like symptoms, state radio said.

(8/01)

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Floods in Cambodia have killed at least 17 people, mostly children, and caused hundreds of thousands to flee their homes along the Mekong River in the last week, officials said on Sunday.

JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Suspected separatist Muslim guerrillas are believed to have killed 17 Hindu villagers on Saturday in India's troubled Jammu and Kashmir state, a police official said. From Pakistan, however, two Kashmiri militant groups condemned the killings and accused Indian security forces of themselves being behind the incident.

(6/01)

The military said 17 soldiers have been killed since the fighting began, including an army captain in an armored personnel carrier hit by a rocket launcher, and another 97 have been wounded. Witnesses also reported guerrilla and civilian casualties.

(AP) - An explosion late Friday on a crowded beachfront in Tel Aviv killed 17 people, including a suicide bomber who had mingled with young people outside a dance hall, police said. At least 86 people were wounded. Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer called it one of the most inhuman attacks in Israel's history.

(4/01)

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Seventeen people including four Indian soldiers were killed in separate incidents of violence in the strife-torn northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, police and witnesses said on Saturday.

(10/00)

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A fire ripped through a nightclub in central Mexico City on Friday, killing several patrons and snarling morning traffic. The government's Notimex news agency reported that at least seven people had died at the Lobohombo nightclub. The Televisa television network said police reported 17 dead. Notimex said most of those killed were believed to be workers at the club.

ADEN, Yemen (AP) -- With the crippled USS Cole listing slightly in the harbor, American investigators, Marines and soldiers swarmed into this deep-water port Friday, bringing sniffer dogs and sophisticated equipment to search for clues in the blast that killed 17 American sailors.

(6/00)

BEIJING (AP) -- China marked U.N. anti-drug day Monday by executing dealers, torching narcotics and publicly acknowledging the grim inroads drugs are making among Chinese, particularly the young. Those executed included three drug traffickers from Taiwan, a Hong Kong resident, two Shanghai heroin dealers, four dealers in the northern province of Shaanxi, three farmers in China's drug-afflicted southwest, and four manufacturers of methamphetamine, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said.

(2/00)

17 people were killed when a passenger bus in India drove off of a cliff. Dozens more were missing.

(11/99)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lankan troops killed 17 Tamil guerrillas and destroyed a rebel vessel in separate weekend battles, a military spokesman said Monday. The army killed 14 rebels in the northern Wanni jungles and three others in the area's Jaffna peninsula in fighting on Sunday, Major Nishantha Wadugodapitiya said. Two female fighters were wounded.

(9/99)

MOSCOW (AP) -- An explosion devastated an apartment building today in southern Russia, leaving at least 17 people dead and 184 others injured in what authorities said was the fourth massive terrorist attack in two weeks.

(1/99)

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Allies of Congolese President Laurent Kabila's government have bombed Kisangani, the country's third-largest city, killing 17 people, a rebel leader said today. The Rome-based Italian missionary news service MISNA also reported that Kisangani was bombed Sunday night, but gave a higher death toll -- 40.