(12/06)
MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A fire at a wedding party triggered a stampede and collapse of a wall in central Pakistan, killing more than 20 people, including the bride, police said on Sunday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops killed 20 suspected al Qaeda militants, including two women, during a ground and air operation in central Iraq on Friday, the U.S. military said.
(10/06)
HANOI (Reuters) - A boat carrying traders with their chickens and pigs capsized in a river in northern Vietnam on Tuesday with at least 20 passengers feared drowned, officials said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Fighting between NATO forces and Taliban guerrillas killed at least 20 civilians in southern Afghanistan, police and officials said on Wednesday, the highest number of combat-related deaths in weeks.
(9/06)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed four Canadian NATO soldiers in Afghanistan on Monday as they were trying to reassure villagers about safety, while 15 Afghans were killed in two other blasts.
(8/06)
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers said at least 20 civilians were killed and 26 wounded in air force raids on Monday in the island's east, as the army launched a new push into Tiger territory.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 20 people died and 300 were hurt in Baghdad on Sunday after insurgents, including roof-top snipers, ambushed pilgrims gathering in their hundreds of thousands for a sacred Shi'ite festival.
(7/06)
LAGOS (Reuters) - Twenty people were killed and many were trapped in the ruins of a four-storey building in Nigeria's largest city Lagos on Wednesday after it collapsed overnight, the Red Cross and residents said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a bus station north of Baghdad, pulled 24 people from a crowd and then killed most of them before dumping their bound and blindfolded bodies in a village nearby, officials said on Wednesday. "We found 20 bodies. They were blindfolded and bound," Awad told Reuters.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces attacked a militant hideout near the Afghan border on Saturday, killing up to 20 militants, an army spokesman said.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - About 20 people died in clashes between rival gangs fighting a turf war in one of the Haitian capital's violent slums, a senior police official said on Friday.
KABUL (Reuters) - Twenty insurgents were killed in southern Afghanistan after they ambushed U.S.-led forces, the latest battle in the bloodiest phase of violence since the Taliban were ousted in 2001.
(6/06)
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces attacked a militant hideout near the Afghan border on Saturday, killing up to 20 militants, an army spokesman said.
(5/06)
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Bullets and artillery shells pounded Mogadishu for a fourth day on Saturday, killing at least 20 people, as rival militias intensified their battle for control of the Somali capital.
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Lightning strikes and falling trees have killed 20 people in pre-monsoon storms which lashed two Indian states, officials said on Saturday.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed on Saturday when a bus traveling in Mexico's central state of San Luis Potosi crashed into a mountainside, local press reports said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Canadian troops killed up to 20 Taliban insurgents who were preparing to ambush a military convoy in southern Afghanistan, a Canadian military spokesman said on Monday.
(4/06)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed more than 20 foreign insurgents, several of them wearing suicide vests, during raids south of Baghdad in the past few weeks, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - At least 20 Colombians were missing on Wednesday after a landslide brought on by heavy rains swept over the village of Bendiciones in the country's south, officials said.
(3/06)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops mounted two raids against Iraqi Shi'ite forces in Baghdad on Sunday, killing up to 20 gunmen in an assault around a radical mosque and arresting over 40 Interior Ministry personnel guarding a secret prison.
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces killed up to 20 militants in the restive tribal area of North Waziristan during a clash on Friday, the military said.
(2/06)
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Sudanese military plane crashed at the airport in the southern town of Awil on Saturday killing all seven crew and 13 soldiers on board, officials said.
(10/05)
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb killed 20 people in Iraq's second city of Basra on Monday at the end of the bloodiest month for U.S. troops in Iraq since early this year.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Iraq killed 20 insurgents on Saturday near the Syrian border while conducting raids on houses believed to be hideouts for al Qaeda foreign fighters, the U.S. military said.
(9/05)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police found 20 bodies in a river just north of Baghdad on Sunday, police sources said.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Lions disturbed by deforestation have killed 20 people and devoured 750 of their domestic animals in Ethiopia, a local news agency said on Tuesday.
(8/05)
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - At least 20 people were on Wednesday reported killed overnight in retaliatory violence against southern Sudanese in Khartoum, where residents said armed men roamed the streets despite a curfew.
(7/05)
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Renewed clashes between rival clans fighting for control of a trading town in southern Somalia have killed 20 people and injured at least 30, residents said on Saturday. Clashes between the Garre and Merrehan clans erupted late on Friday, centering on Ceel Waaq town in Gedo region, close to the border with Kenya.
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Floods in Romania killed 20 people in the past week, with thousands left homeless and dependent on army airlifts for food and drinking water, authorities said on Sunday.
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces killed 19 insurgents and captured six in fighting in southern Afghanistan this week, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, while Taliban guerrillas shot dead a senior pro-government cleric.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Arsonists torched a Russian shop on Monday, killing 20 people, officials said.
(6/05)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The bodies of 20 people, bound and shot in the head, have been found on a military firing range in the eastern suburbs of Baghdad, police said on Sunday.
(5/05)
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces have killed about 20 insurgents in a battle in the trouble-plagued southern province of Zabul, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
(4/05)
LOME (Reuters) - Security forces in Togo fought pitched battles with machete-wielding youths on Wednesday in violence which has killed at least 20 people and caused over 1,000 to flee since the late ruler's son won a disputed poll.
PARIS (Reuters) - Fire swept through a central Paris hotel used by immigrants and tourists on Friday, killing at least 20 people including 10 children, police said.
(3/05)
BEIJING (Reuters) - A dynamite explosion in a north China village killed 20 primary schoolchildren when their classroom collapsed on top of them, state media said on Thursday.
(2/05)
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine military said up to 20 Muslim rebels were killed at a fortified jungle hideout on Thursday, the fourth day of fierce fighting and bombing raids on the southwestern island of Jolo.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian Marxist rebels ambushed and killed at least 20 Colombian soldiers on Wednesday in the deadliest attack on the armed forces in years, the army said.
LUANDA (Reuters) - A truck plowed into a crowd of Carnival revelers in the Angolan city of Lubango on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and injuring some 70 others, state radio reported.
(1/05)
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese police killed around 20 people and injured 40 on Saturday when they opened fire on hundreds of demonstrators in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, a local political leader said.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - A U.S.-made helicopter on an anti-drugs mission crashed in the Colombian jungle on Thursday, killing all 20 Colombian soldiers aboard, the army said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas killed 20 people in attacks in Iraq Tuesday, and Prime Minister Iyad Allawi acknowledged what he called pockets of the country would be too unsafe for voting in a Jan. 30 election.
(11/04)
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - French troops killed about 20 people in Ivory Coast during unrest earlier this month, the Defense Ministry in Paris said on Tuesday, as controversy grew over the French military's handling of the crisis.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces launched air strikes and fought gunbattles after insurgents overran police stations and other areas in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Monday, killing about 20 rebels, the U.S. military said.
(9/04)
MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Ivan killed at least 20 people as it laid waste to the tiny spice island of Grenada, where looting hampered relief efforts on Wednesday as the storm swept through the Caribbean heading northwest.
(7/04)
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Eight people drowned Wednesday and 12 were washed away and feared dead when a boat capsized in a surging Indian river as fresh rains in Asia took the rainy season death toll to more than 800.
(6/04)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A strike by U.S. forces that destroyed a house in the Iraqi city of Falluja overnight killed around 20 foreign fighters, a senior military official told reporters Wednesday.
BOMBAY (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed and more than 100 injured when a train bound for India's commercial hub Bombay derailed on Wednesday while crossing a bridge, railway officials said.
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Angry Shi'ite Muslims clashed with police during funerals Tuesday for most of the 20 people killed in the apparently sectarian suicide bombing of a mosque in the Pakistani city of Karachi.
(5/04)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least 20 suspected Taliban were killed in U.S. air strikes in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, Afghan officials said.
KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops killed at least 20 militiamen loyal to rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in fierce fighting in the Iraqi city of Kerbala, a senior U.S. military officer said.
(2/04)
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Blizzards cut off thousands of Turkish villages, blocked roads and kept air and sea routes closed on Friday, while rescue workers battled high seas in the search for 20 men lost when their ship sank off Istanbul.
KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed and 40 wounded in several clashes in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan, official sources reported Sunday.
(1/04)
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - The Colombian army, which has been criticized by rights groups for not cracking down on right-wing paramilitary militias, said it killed at least 20 of the gunmen in a northeastern cattle-ranching region on Wednesday.
(12/03)
CALCUTTA, India (Reuters) - Bhutanese troops killed at least 20 guerrillas in the tiny Himalayan kingdom as they overran five camps used by rebels fighting forces in neighboring India, officials said on Wednesday.
(11/03)
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Car bombs exploded outside two Istanbul synagogues, killing at least 20 people -- most of them Muslim passers-by -- in simultaneous attacks on Jewish worshippers celebrating the Sabbath on Saturday.
(10/03)
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A helicopter crash in Sudan caused by a technical fault has killed 20 people, mostly members of the armed forces, Sudan's military said on Wednesday.
HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up in a crowded beach restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Saturday, killing at least 19 people including three children, police said.
(8/03)
KABUL/SPIN BOLDAK (Reuters) - Bombing raids by coalition aircraft killed another 20 Taliban in southern Afghanistan Tuesday in a major operation to hunt hundreds of fugitive guerrillas, an Afghan Defense Ministry official said.
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - The governor of Russia's oil-rich Sakhalin Island and 19 other people were killed in a helicopter crash, officials said on Saturday after the wreck was found following a three-day search.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A member of Iraq's Governing Council said on Wednesday that at least 20 people had been killed in the truck bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, and many more bodies were buried in the rubble.
(7/03)
BEIJING (Reuters) - Typhoon Imbudo, one of the most powerful typhoons to hit China in years, began to blow itself out on Saturday after tearing through southern China, killing at least 20 people, state media and an official said.
LAGOS (Reuters) - More than 20 people were killed over the past week in clashes between rival ethnic groups in southern Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, sources in the region said on Saturday.
(1/03)
COTABATO, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippine troops killed about 20 Muslim guerrillas as they overran rebel positions in three days of fighting on southern Mindanao island, the military said Sunday.
(11/02)
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The pilot and one passenger survived when a Luxair plane with 22 people aboard smashed into a field in thick fog near Luxembourg's international airport on Wednesday and burst into flames.
(9/02)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed and up to 100 injured in a week of fighting between rival gangs in the Cite Soleil slum in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, private Radio Metropole reported on Thursday.
(6/02)
(Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus packed with schoolchildren and office workers during morning rush hour Tuesday, killing 19 people and wounding more than 50, police said. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to fight "Palestinian terror" as he surveyed the damage caused by the attack, which could undercut President Bush's plan this week to lay out a framework for Middle East peace.
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The death toll from flooding caused by a dam collapse in the north of Syria has jumped to 20 and could climb higher, the official media said on Thursday.
(3/02)
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal said on Friday its soldiers had killed 20 rebels in 24 hours of operations against the Maoist guerrillas trying to overthrow the constitutional monarchy.
(12/01)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- President Fernando De la Rua resigned Thursday amid bloody protests over the moribund economy that brought thousands of demonstrators into the streets and killed at least 20.
(10/01)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- About 20 civilians were killed in the Kabul area during the U.S.-led attack, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan said Monday.
(9/01)
BEIJING (AP) -- Twenty people, including five police officers, were killed in two separate fireworks explosions in a central Chinese city, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday. The explosions happened Tuesday in Wuhan, a major city in China's Hubei province.
(7/01)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's top officer in the breakaway republic of Chechnya said on Sunday federal forces had destroyed a group of up to 20 rebels in a special operation.
(3/01)
PARIS (Reuters) - Twenty people were killed on Saturday when a small plane crashed while trying to land on the French Caribbean holiday island of St Barthelemy, a police official said.
(5/00)
ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, May 15 (Reuters) - Dutch rescue workers and forensic experts continue efforts on Monday to find and identify the remains of bodies from a weekend fireworks explosion that killed at least 20 people and injured 590.
(3/00)
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- As Congo slides back into war, Congolese rebels on Sunday said they had killed at least 20 government troops in fresh attacks by President Laurent Kabila's army.
(10/99)
OAXACA, Mexico (AP) -- Candles on the bare concrete floor of a simple home flickered next to a white casket holding the crushed body of an 18-year-old woman, one of at least 20 people killed in the latest earthquake to strike Mexico.
(8/99)
DONGDUCHON, South Korea (AP) -- Water inundated highways, military bases and thousands of homes across South Korea today after heavy rains triggered floods and landslides, leaving at least 20 people dead and 24 missing.
(6/99)
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- A Russian convoy bearing food and fuel arrived from Bosnia today to resupply its troops at Pristina's airport. Dutch soldiers discovered the charred remains of 20 villagers in Kosovo, the second straight day that atrocities were unearthed by NATO forces.
(4/99)
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Accused by Serb authorities of a ``barbaric'' attack that killed at least 20 people -- many of them women and children -- NATO today acknowleged one of its laser-guided missiles went astray and slammed into a residential neighborhood of southern Serbia.