(11/06)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - NATO forces killed up to 22 Taliban fighters in an air strike in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, Afghan and alliance officials said on Thursday.

(7/06)

BEIJING (Reuters) - The death toll from an explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China has risen to 22 but more than 7,000 people evacuated after the blast have now gone home, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 21 people in a cafe north of Baghdad on Sunday, while the head of Iraq's North Oil Company was kidnapped in the capital, the second high-profile abduction in two days.

(6/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition forces have killed 22 insurgents in a series of raids in southern and eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.

(4/06)

JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Suspected Islamic militants shot dead at least 22 Hindus in a village in Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday, officials said.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas to break up stone-throwing anti-monarchy protesters in Nepal on Thursday after a fierce overnight attack on a town by Maoist rebels left 22 people dead, witnesses and authorities said.

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian troops killed 22 Marxist rebels on Saturday in an offensive aimed at preventing guerrilla attacks during campaigning for the May presidential election, the army said.

(3/06)

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A Sunni rebel group said on Friday it was behind an attack that killed 22 people in a remote region in southeastern Iran that officials had blamed on bandits, Al Arabiya television said.

(1/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi insurgents killed at least 22 people in two simultaneous bomb blasts in central Baghdad on Thursday, challenging a security clampdown on the capital ahead of the release of the results of last month's elections.

(12/05)

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Twenty-two South Africans were killed and 77 injured when a bus they were traveling in overturned and plunged into a river early on Saturday, public radio reported.

(10/05)

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Twenty-two passengers were killed when a bus plunged into a river in eastern China as the National Day holiday week wound down, the Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police have found the bodies of 22 men handcuffed and shot dead in an area near the Iran border, officials said on Friday.

(9/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police said on Tuesday that they found 22 bodies of shooting victims near the town of Kut southeast of Baghdad.

(7/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 21 people and wounded more than 40 at an Iraqi army recruiting center in western Baghdad on Sunday, officials said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - At least 22 Chinese miners were killed and 60 more trapped underground on Monday when a buildup of gas exploded in a mine shaft, state media said, the latest disaster in the world's deadliest mining industry.

(6/05)

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - At least 22 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when Ethiopian security forces fired into crowds Wednesday in a third day of unrest over last month's disputed elections.

(3/05)

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine police shot dead 22 prisoners as they stormed a Manila jail on Tuesday in a bloody end to a 24-hour stand-off with Islamic militant suspects.

(2/05)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least 22 rebels and troops have been killed in a renewed surge in violence in Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan officials said on Friday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 21 people and wounded nearly 30 outside an Iraqi security forces recruitment center in Baghdad on Tuesday in the deadliest insurgent attack since last month's historic election.

(1/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents hit the U.S. embassy with an audacious rocket strike on Saturday that killed two Americans and wounded four, and also killed 17 Iraqis and an American soldier on the eve of Iraq's landmark election.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents bent on sabotaging Iraq's Jan. 30 elections unleashed mortars and bombs and opened fire in several cities Monday, killing at least 22 policemen and soldiers and targeting polling stations.

(12/04)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali soldiers killed 22 Maoist rebels in a fierce gun battle in the west of the country on Thursday, the army said, as a partial blockade of Kathmandu by the rebels reduced traffic to a trickle on two key highways.

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A guerrilla attack on a dining tent at a U.S. base in Iraq killed 19 American soldiers and three other people on Tuesday in the deadliest strike on U.S. forces since last year's war to oust Saddam Hussein.

(10/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suicide bombers killed 20 members of Iraq's fledgling security forces near a U.S. marine base west of Baghdad and at a checkpoint north of the capital on Saturday in a spate of guerrilla attacks across the country.

(8/04)

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Separatist rebels killed 22 people, many of them school children, in India Sunday and wounded dozens in bomb and grenade attacks on independence day ceremonies in the troubled northeast and disputed Kashmir.

(6/04)

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike on a house in the restive Iraqi city of Falluja on Saturday killed 22 Iraqis, witnesses and hospital officials said.

(5/04)

KUFA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces and Iraqi militia loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr fought near Najaf overnight, leaving two U.S. soldiers and around 20 militiamen dead in the fourth day of clashes since Sadr offered a truce.

(4/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A deadly mortar barrage on a U.S.-run prison in Baghdad killed 22 prisoners and wounded more than 90 Tuesday, a U.S. military spokesman said.

(2/04)

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Scores of gunmen firing mortars and grenades stormed Iraqi security posts in Falluja on Saturday, killing 22 people including 14 police in the latest audacious strike on forces key to the transfer of power in Iraq.

(11/03)

KINSHASA (Reuters) - An Antonov-26 plane crashed in northwestern Congo shortly after take-off on Saturday, killing all 22 Congolese passengers and the crew, officials said.

(10/03)

KABUL (Reuters) - At least 22 guerrillas from the ousted Taliban regime and al Qaeda network were killed in an aerial attack by U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan's southeastern Paktika province, the region's governor said on Tuesday.

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) raided a bar in Lira district in northern Uganda, rounded up bar patrons and gunned them down, killing all 22 of them, an army spokesman said on Wednesday.

(11/02)

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A land mine blast and clashes left 22 dead in Indian Kashmir on Saturday, the bloodiest day since a new state government took office earlier this month calling for an end to the violence.

(10/01)

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- A bus carrying workers to a copper mine collided head-on with a truck in northern Chile on Wednesday, killing 22 people and injuring another 21, authorities said.

(2/00)

CAMILLA, Ga. (AP) -- Tornadoes slashed through southwest Georgia early today, killing at least 22 people and injuring more than 100. The Mitchell County town of Camilla appeared to be hardest hit, with a tornado cutting a five-mile path through a housing development south of town.

(9/99)

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The strongest earthquake to hit Athens in nearly a century toppled buildings this afternoon, sending hundreds of thousands of terrified people into debris-littered streets. At least 22 people died and nearly 100 were reported missing.