(9/06)

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Key allies in the war against Afghanistan's Taliban militants pledged to stay the course on Tuesday as a suicide bomber killed 18 in the south and a blast killed an Italian NATO soldier.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Nineteen Afghan laborers heading home from work were killed on Friday in an ambush in southern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said.

MOSUL, Iraq, Sept 19 Reuters) - A car bomb followed by a suicide blast killed 18 people and wounded 11 in a town near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, a police source said.

(8/06)

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Nineteen Israeli soldiers were killed on Saturday in clashes with Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon, an Israeli army spokeswoman said on Sunday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four separate roadside bomb attacks killed at least 19 people in Baghdad on Tuesday, police sources said, as U.S. troops made new efforts to try to rid the capital of powerful militias and insurgents.

(7/06)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - NATO-led British and Afghan troops killed 19 Taliban guerrillas on Sunday, a local official said, as militants vowed more suicide attacks a day after a deadly double strike in the south.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Nineteen suspected Taliban have been killed in an air strike by U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan, a provincial official said, the latest clash in an offensive aimed at pushing back a revitalized insurgency.

(6/06)

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian government forces killed 19 Islamist militants in attacks on mountain hideouts of rebels who have rejected an amnesty aimed at ending years of strife, newspapers reported on Monday.

(5/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki vowed to use "maximum force against terrorism" on Sunday, as bombs killed at least 19 people in Baghdad during the first meeting of his national unity cabinet.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nineteen people were killed in a shooting and bombing attack at a bus garage in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of men waiting to sign up to join the police force in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Wednesday, killing at least 18 people, doctors said.

(4/06)

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian plane crashed into a mountainside as it carried passengers from the oil town of Macae to Rio de Janeiro, killing all 19 people onboard, rescue services and the airline said on Saturday.

(3/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed through a small town near Baghdad, killing at least 19 people, in what police said on Friday was a sectarian attack by Sunni on Shi'ite Muslims of the kind that has pushed Iraq toward civil war.

(2/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three bombs killed at least 19 people in Iraq on Monday, breaking a relative lull in guerrilla violence as the U.S. ambassador warned against sectarianism and militias in the new government.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Seven Russian policemen and 12 gunmen were believed to have been killed when special forces stormed houses in a southern village to flush out insurgents, officials said on Friday.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Avalanches swept away 10 homes in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains, killing 19 people, most of them children, a provincial official said on Wednesday.

(12/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas killed 10 Iraqi policemen and soldiers in attacks north of Baghdad on Monday, while in the capital five major explosions left at least eight dead and one U.S. soldier was killed on a patrol.

MIAMI (Reuters) - A seaplane packed with passengers crashed in flames off Miami Beach and sank into the U.S. city's main shipping channel on Monday, killing at least 19 people, authorities said.

(11/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb blast killed 18 people, including 10 police, in the northern city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, and mortars landed near the U.S. ambassador to Iraq during a ceremony in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.

(9/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Unknown gunmen killed 19 Iraqi police and troops and wounded another 16 in three separate attacks near Baquba, north of Baghdad, on Saturday, police and hospital sources said.

(6/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least eight car bombs exploded across Iraq on Monday killing at least 29 people as insurgents defied a widespread U.S.-Iraqi security clampdown.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A mudslide in a Guatemalan highland town killed at least 19 people and the government said on Thursday it feared more may be dead.

(3/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The bodies of 19 people who were shot dead were found in the western Iraqi town of Qaim, hospital sources said Wednesday.

(2/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed 18 people near a hospital south of Baghdad on Saturday amid a surge of violence by Iraq's mostly Sunni Muslim insurgents ahead of Ashura, the holiest festival on the Shi'ite religious calendar.

(1/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - With Iraq's election only three days away, insurgents bent on wrecking the poll killed 19 Iraqis and a U.S. Marine on Thursday and bombed polling stations in the country's Sunni heartland.

(8/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City district between Shi'ite militiamen and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces has killed 19 Iraqis and wounded 111 since early Thursday, Iraq's Health Ministry said on Friday.

(6/04)

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - A passenger plane carrying at least 29 people plunged into the sea off Gabon on Tuesday and 10 people were rescued, officials from the aircraft's operator Gabon Express said.

(3/04)

TASHKENT (Reuters) - At least 19 people were killed in a series of bombs and shoot-outs in Uzbekistan which officials Monday blamed on Islamic militants trying to split the Central Asian country from the U.S.-led war against terror.

(2/04)

LONDON (Reuters) - Nineteen Asian shellfish gatherers died on Thursday night after being caught by a fast-rising tide on an English beach, prompting charges of exploited migrant labour.

(12/03)

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - At least 19 people were shot dead in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan on Thursday night, military officials said, as the war-divided West African country shows increasing signs of instability.

(7/02)

BALATONKERSEZTUR, Hungary (Reuters) - Nineteen Poles were killed and 32 injured, some seriously, when a bus taking them on a pilgrimage crashed near Hungary's popular Lake Balaton resort early on Monday.

(6/02)

CHAMAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 19 Afghan soldiers and civilians were killed when an ammunition dump blew up on Friday, unleashing a chain of explosions that spread damage across a wide area, witnesses and officials said.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Nineteen people, including eight Indian security force members, were killed and 26 wounded on Thursday in fresh separatist violence in revolt-racked Kashmir, police said.

(9/01)

SKUKUZA, South Africa (AP) -- A brushfire swept through a popular wildlife park in northeastern South Africa, killing at least 19 people before it was brought under control Wednesday. The fire broke out Tuesday afternoon in the southwestern part of Kruger National Park and was fanned by strong winds, National Parks Board spokesman Salifou Siddo said. The cause was not immediately known.

(7/01)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - One person was killed and at least 18 people were missing in landslides in western Nepal triggered by non-stop rains, a government official said on Sunday. Several houses were washed away or buried in landslides late on Saturday in three villages in Myagdi district, about 155 miles northwest of Kathmandu, district official Mathur Prasad Yadav told Reuters.

(11/00)

HYDERABAD, India, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Nineteen children have died in an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh, a minister said on Monday. State Revenue Minister P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju told reporters 100 cases of brain fever have been reported from nine districts in the state so far this year.

(7/00)

LEVASHOVO, Russia (AP) -- A helicopter crashed minutes after takeoff from a military air field in northern Russia on Friday, killing 19 airmen, the Air Force said. The helicopter was carrying 16 parachutists and three crewmen on a training flight in the region of Levashovo, just north of St. Petersburg, said Yuri Drobyshevsky, a spokesman for the Air Force. Everyone on board was killed, he said.

(5/00)

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Reuters) - Federal aviation investigators probing the cause of a weekend plane crash that killed 19 people in a mountainous section of Pennsylvania turned their attention on Monday to the twin-engine turboprop's fuel system, officials said.

(4/00)

PHOENIX, Ariz. (Reuters) - A team of military investigators Sunday began sifting for clues amid the burned wreckage of a MV-22 Osprey aircraft that crashed during a night training mission in Arizona, killing all 19 Marines aboard, U.S. officials said.

(3/00)

SUVA, Fiji (AP) -- Trapped by a bolted door and mesh-covered windows, 18 teen-age girls and their supervisor died when a fire swept through a high school dormitory in the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu, officials said today.

(5/99)

PULO RUNGKOM, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesian troops searching for a kidnapped soldier fired on villagers in a northern province today, killing at least 19 and injuring dozens, doctors and witnesses said.

(4/99)

BEIJING (AP) -- A fire swept through a furniture factory in central China, killing 19 people including the owner's family, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said today. The blaze started early Thursday and quickly engulfed the Heavenly Furniture Factory and its stock of flammable goods in the city of Nanyang, 560 miles south of Beijing, Xinhua said.

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MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian President Boris Yeltsin dispatched his interior minister today to the site of a fire that killed at least 19 people at a regional police headquarters. Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin suggested that organized crime might have been responsible for the blaze in Samara, the ITAR-Tass news agency said.

(12/98)

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A cold wave that has taken at least 19 lives spread across the continental United States Tuesday and forecasters warned the south and southeast to brace for what could be a major pre-Christmas ice storm.

(9/98)

TEHRAN, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Iranian police killed 17 Afghan drug smugglers in four separate armed clashes, the daily Kayhan reported on Wednesday. In different clashes near the Afghan border last week, two Iranian policemen were also killed, it quoted a police official as saying.