(11/06)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Two Colombians were killed and five more wounded on Thursday when a jeep carrying explosives for a suspected attack blew up accidentally near Bogota a day after a guerrilla assault killed 19 people.

(8/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan killed 18 suspected Taliban, the military said on Tuesday, while two Afghans died in a suicide bombing of a NATO convoy -- part of the worst violence since the fall of the Taliban 5 years ago.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Security forces battled armed gangs and insurgents in two Iraqi cities on Wednesday as bomb attacks killed 21 in the capital, highlighting the precarious task facing U.S.-led forces trying to stem sectarian violence.

(5/06)

KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb near the central bus station in the Iraqi Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala killed 21 people and wounded 52 on Sunday, police said.

(3/06)

KAMPALA (Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed and more than 20 others injured when a church roof collapsed during torrential rains in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on Wednesday, police said.

(2/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least 21 people in Baghdad on Tuesday hours after Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari angrily rejected U.S. warnings to the Shi'ite majority to embrace sectarian rivals in a new government.

(11/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five U.S. marines and 16 insurgents were killed in a firefight in western Iraq on Wednesday, the U.S. military said in a statement.

(10/05)

GLENS FALLS, New York (Reuters) - Twenty-one people from a senior citizens' tour group were killed on Sunday when a small tour boat capsized after it hit the wake from a larger boat on Lake George in upstate New York, police said.

DUSHANBE (Reuters) - A powerful blast killed all 21 passengers on board when a bus running on liquefied gas collided with another bus in western Tajikistan, police said on Monday.

(7/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed up to 20 people at a police recruitment center in Baghdad on Saturday, while across town an angry crowd of Shi'ite Muslims mourned a senior cleric gunned down by insurgents.

(6/05)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 20 people, including a police chief, in an attack on a mosque in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday as mourners gathered to pay respects to an assassinated anti-Taliban cleric.

(5/05)

TENTENA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Two bombs ripped through a busy market in a Christian town in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, killing up to 21 people in an attack likely to raise fears sectarian bloodshed could again break out in the region.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A gas explosion has killed 21 miners in southwestern China, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday, the latest in a string of accidents in the world's deadliest mining industry.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed his car into a funeral procession for a slain Kurdish official in north Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 20 people, while insurgents released a video of an Australian hostage pleading for his life.

(12/04)

DHAKA (Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed and six others injured when a truck skidded off a highway in Bangladesh Friday, police said.

(10/04)

OJIYA, Japan (Reuters) - Thousands of weary and frightened residents in northern Japan were spending a second night in shelters, cars or in the open Sunday after Japan's deadliest earthquake in nine years killed at least 21 people.

(8/04)

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed in Afghanistan Saturday in factional fighting for control of a disused airbase in a western province where militia commanders have launched raids to oust the provincial governor.

(5/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces have killed 21 Iraqis and wounded at least 10 in operations in Baghdad in the past 24 hours in an effort to restore stability to the capital, a U.S. military spokesman said on Saturday.

(4/04)

LUCKNOW (Reuters) - At least 21 women were killed in a stampede in northern India Monday when supporters of a local politician began giving out free sarees to celebrate his birthday, officials and police said.

BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - At least 21 people died in three days of fighting in a suburb near Burundi's capital between the last remaining Hutu rebel group and the army, military and local officials said on Saturday.

(1/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber detonated half a ton of explosives outside the U.S. seat of power in Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 20 people in the deadliest attack since the capture of Saddam Hussein.

TIRANA (Reuters) - At least 21 people died when a rubber dinghy heading for Italy and packed with at least 32 illegal migrants capsized off the Albanian coast in stormy seas, Italian coastguards said on Saturday.

(8/03)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - All 21 people on board a Haitian plane were killed on Sunday when the aircraft crashed soon after take-off from the northern city of Cap-Haitien on a domestic flight, officials said.

SAO LUIS, Brazil (Reuters) - Some of the bodies of the 21 people killed when a Brazilian space rocket exploded before its launch have been so badly damaged that they will need DNA testing to be identified, officials said on Saturday.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bombing blew apart a bus packed with ultra-Orthodox Jews returning from a holy shrine in Jerusalem Tuesday, killing at least 20 people including children and dealing a deadly blow to a truce.

(7/03)

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Twenty-one Africans have died from dehydration after going missing in Algeria's Sahara desert, state media reported on Sunday.

(2/03)

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Twenty-one people were killed in a stampede at an illegally operating Chicago night club on Monday when they tried to escape pepper spray used to break up a fight and were crushed behind blocked doors, officials said.

(1/03)

(AP) - A commuter plane carrying 21 people crashed into an airport maintenance hangar on takeoff and burst into flames Wednesday, killing everyone aboard, authorities said.

(8/02)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Floods and landslides caused by mountain torrents have swept through China's southeastern Zhejiang province over the past three days, killing at least 21 people, the official Xinhua news agency said Saturday.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A massive landslide and flooding caused by heavy rain killed 21 people in China's central province of Hunan and more casualties are expected, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.

(5/02)

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - A bus carrying university students careened off a country highway and down a steep bank in southeast Brazil early on Thursday, killing 21 people and injuring another 21, police said.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali forces killed at least 21 Maoist rebels in separate gun battles in the latest crackdown on the guerrillas fighting to topple the Himalayan kingdom's constitutional monarchy.

(3/01)

MINERALNYE VODY, Russia (Reuters) - Twenty-one people were killed and more than 140 injured when three car bombs exploded on Saturday in volatile southern republics near Russia's rebel Chechnya province.

(8/00)

SRINAGAR, India (AP) -- Unarmed Hindu pilgrims and Muslim porters came under rifle fire Tuesday on their way to a religious shrine in disputed Kashmir, and at least 21 people were killed, police said.

(11/99)

AMBON, Indonesia (AP) - At least 21 people were killed & dozens injured as fresh Muslim-Christian clashes broke out in Ambon, the capital of Indonesia's eastern province of Maluku, plagued by religious fighting since January.

(10/99)

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- A Pakistan navy aircraft crashed into the Arabian sea today killing all 21 military personnel on board, said a navy official. The P-3C Orion American-made aircraft was on a regular reconnaissance flight over the coastal regions of southwestern Baluchistan province when it crashed, said officials.

(1/99)

SHANKARBIGHA, India (AP) -- Armed men believed to be members of an upper caste militia stormed into the houses of poor villagers in northern India, killing 21 people and wounding 12 others in a revenge massacre, police said Tuesday.

(12/98)

LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- An overcrowded bus climbing a steep mountain road in northern India fell into a deep gorge today, killing 21 people and injuring 47 others, officials said.

(10/98)

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Right-wing death squads killed at least 21 people in back-to-back attacks over the weekend in northern Colombia, authorities said Monday. Police said the toll could rise to as high as 36, however, since 15 people were missing and feared dead after one of the raids by members of Colombia's leading ultra-rightist paramilitary group, the Peasant Self-Defense Force of Cordoba and Uraba (ACCU).