(12/06)

MANILA (Reuters) - At least 23 people were killed in the Philippines on Monday when firecrackers started a fire in a department store, police said.

(11/06)

RUDA SLASKA, Poland (Reuters) - In Poland's worst mining disaster since the 1970s, all 23 miners caught in a gas explosion in a pit in the south of the country were confirmed dead on Thursday.

HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 22 people south of Baghdad on Sunday by offering poor Shi'ite workers day laboring jobs and then detonating explosives packed inside his minibus as the crowd gathered around it.

(9/06)

LATHEN, Germany (Reuters) - A high tech magnetic train smashed into a maintenance vehicle on a test run in northern Germany on Friday, killing 23 people, authorities said.

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Insurgents killed at least 23 people with a wave of vehicle bombs across Iraq's ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk on Sunday, one day after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki urged Iraqis to embrace reconciliation.

LEON, Nicaragua (Reuters) - An adulterated batch of moonshine cane liquor has killed 23 people in Nicaragua, the government said on Friday, and dozens more with symptoms of poisoning flooded an overstretched hospital.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Fourteen coal miners died at the weekend in two separate accidents, while the death toll at a third pit climbed to nine, underscoring China's reputation as the world's deadliest mining industry.

(7/06)

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed 23 Palestinians in fighting across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, including at least 11 militants, three children and a handicapped man, medics and witnesses said.

(5/06)

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Two demonstrators were killed in Kashmir on Wednesday when Indian soldiers fired on a an angry mob protesting over the deaths of 21 school children in a boat accident, witnesses said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A typhoon that battered south and east China killed 23 people and left four missing, state media said on Friday.

(4/06)

DAHAB, Egypt (Reuters) - Bombers have struck again at a resort in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, killing at least 23 people in three nearly simultaneous explosions in a market and restaurant area popular with foreign tourists.

(2/06)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents launched four attacks in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Friday and three policemen and 20 Taliban were killed, the province's deputy governor said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A gas explosion at a Chinese coal mine has killed at least 23 miners, state media reported on Thursday, in the latest accident to hit the world's deadliest mining industry.

(1/06)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Seventeen Maoist guerrillas and six security personnel were killed in the deadliest gun battle in restive Nepal since the rebels ended a four-month-old truce three weeks ago, an army officer said on Sunday.

(12/05)

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian riot police on Friday stormed a protest camp in Cairo set up by thousands of Sudanese refugees, sparking clashes that left 23 Sudanese dead, officials and witnesses said.

BAKU (Reuters) - Twenty-three people were killed when an Azeri passenger plane crashed on Friday soon after takeoff from the Caucasus state's capital Baku, officials said.

(11/05)

NEWBURGH, Indiana (Reuters) - A powerful tornado tore through southern Indiana and parts of Kentucky early on Sunday, killing at least 23 people and injuring more than 200, many caught sleeping when the twister hit, officials said.

KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb outside a mosque in central Iraq killed at least 23 people and wounded 46 on Wednesday, targeting Shi'ite Muslims in an apparent sectarian attack as the holy month of Ramadan drew to a close.

(10/05)

KUTA BEACH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Police questioned more witnesses in the Bali backpack bombings on Saturday after narrowly failing to capture a key suspect in a series of blasts in Indonesia over the past several years. The death toll from the blasts one week ago has risen to 23 -- including the three suicide bombers who strolled into packed restaurants on Indonesia's resort island with explosives hidden in backpacks, police said.

(6/05)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - At least 23 Colombian soldiers died in combat with Marxist rebels on Saturday, the latest in a series of battles that has left 200 soldiers dead so far this year, the army said.

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bombing claimed by Sunni Arab insurgents killed 22 people and wounded more than 80 on Tuesday in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk, where ethnic tensions are running high between Arabs and Kurds.

(5/05)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian troops killed 23 Marxist rebels in fierce fighting in three provinces over the weekend, the army said on Sunday.

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - At least 23 inmates were killed in a week of violence in Venezuela's overcrowded prisons, authorities said on Monday.

(3/05)

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - At least 23 people were killed and 15 were injured on Tuesday when a Venezuelan bus packed with passengers plunged into a ditch in the eastern outskirts of Caracas, a fire service official said.

(2/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents have killed 21 Iraqis and two U.S. soldiers in recent assaults, showing there has been no respite in the fight against U.S.-led forces and their allies since Sunday's election.

(1/05)

HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - Suicide bombers killed 21 people in attacks on an Iraqi police academy and a checkpoint on Wednesday, part of a campaign to derail Jan. 30 elections which Iraq's prime minister vowed will go ahead.

(12/04)

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) - At least 23 people were killed in the northern industrial city of San Pedro Sula on Thursday when gunmen sprayed a public bus with bullets and left a menacing message for crime-busting politicians, police said.

ALMATY (Reuters) - A powerful blast ripped through a coal mine in Kazakhstan on Sunday, killing 23 people, a spokesman for the Central Asian state's Emergencies ministry said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas shot dead 17 Iraqis working for U.S. forces north of Baghdad Sunday and killed six other people, including three Iraqi National Guards, taking the toll from three days of violence to more than 70.

(10/04)

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - At least 23 people were killed and 27 injured when a bus hurtled into a deep gorge in Peru's southeastern Andes, police said on Saturday.

NSHASA (Reuters) - At least 23 people died when a large motorized canoe capsized on Lake Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo late on Sunday, the United Nations said on Monday.

(8/04)

MIAMI (Reuters) - A man was killed in a fall from a tree in central Florida, bringing to 23 the number of people killed during and after Hurricane Charley's destructive rampage in the state, a state emergency official said on Thursday.

(7/04)

MANILA (Reuters) - The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year rose to 23 on Friday, as rescue workers rushed to clear landslides and send food and medicine to isolated areas, disaster officials said.

(6/04)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces backed by air strikes killed 23 militants in southern Afghanistan Tuesday as part of a campaign aimed at ensuring security for September elections, Afghan officials said.

(4/04)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - At least 23 children were killed and about 30 injured in the Colombian capital Bogota on Wednesday when a construction vehicle slid off a mountain road and crashed onto a school bus on a highway below, police said.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian police have found the bodies of 23 illegal diamond prospectors apparently killed by Indians in a bloody battle on their remote Amazon reserve, the government's Indian agency said on Saturday.

(3/04)

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (Reuters) - Uzbek special forces stormed a suspected Islamic militants' hideout in a Tashkent suburb on Tuesday, leaving up to 23 people dead after a day-long siege, the Interior Ministry said.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - At least 23 people, mainly youths, were killed and 15 injured on Friday in Finland's worst traffic accident after their bus collided with a truck on an icy road, police said.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - At least 23 people were killed and more than 250 were missing after a ferry carrying scores of wedding revelers capsized in northern Indonesian waters, a navy official said on Friday.

(2/04)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - The string of random, sniper-style attacks against targets, many of them motorists, in around the Ohio capital of Columbus reached 23 on Monday, and police said the shooter's territory had expanded.

(10/03)

KINSHASA (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeeping troops discovered 23 bodies in a village in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, in what appeared to be the latest in a series of massacres of civilians.

(8/03)

CAIRO (Reuters) - A bus overturned and caught fire after a collision with a truck, killing 23 people and injuring 37, in southern Egypt on Tuesday, security sources said.

(5/02)

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Suspected Islamic rebels have killed 23 civilians in western Algeria hours before a parliamentary election began on Thursday in the North African country, the official Algerian news agency APS said.

(4/02)

LUCENA, Philippines (Reuters) - At least 23 people died in the Philippines on Thursday when fire engulfed a ferry with about 270 people on board in the latest maritime tragedy to hit the archipelago.

(1/02)

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) -- A 16-year-old died of Ebola in northeastern Gabon, raising the death toll to 23 in an outbreak of the disease in two Central African countries, health officials said Wednesday.

(8/01)

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A bus lost its brakes and plunged into a ravine in western Colombia on Sunday, killing 23 passengers, officials said. Fourteen other people were injured and rushed to hospitals in Valle de Cauca state with serious injuries. Police said the bus was part of a caravan carrying workers from a sugar mill home after a weekend trip to a lake.

(6/01)

SRINAGAR, India (AP) -- Islamic rebels battled government troops on three fronts, and threw a grenade at a paramilitary base, in violence that killed 23 people, police said Monday. The grenade missed the paramilitary Border Security Force bunker, however, and exploded at a crowded bus station in Kashmir on Monday, killing four civilians and wounding 24 others, police said. No officers were hurt.

(5/01)

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Brick by brick, rescue workers dug for survivors Friday from a wedding that turned tragic when the top floor of a banquet hall collapsed into a pile of rubble, killing at least 23 people and injuring more than 300.

(6/00)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Police today detained 19 suspects in a suicide bombing that killed 23 people, including a popular Cabinet minister, and Sri Lanka's president urged against retaliatory attacks on the Tamil minority.

(9/99)

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) _ Methanol liquor disguised as whiskey has killed 23 people in central Kenya and blinded three others, a local police commander said Thursday.

MOSCOW (AP) -- Authorities searched for survivors and clues after a massive explosion tore apart a nine-story apartment building today, killing at least 23 people and leaving dozens more feared dead.

(5/99)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- A passenger bus and a truck collided head-on in central Argentina today, killing at least 23 people, police said. The accident occurred around dawn on a curve in a highway near Villa Mercedes, a city about 450 miles west of Buenos Aires, authorities said.

On the charter bus trips with her casino club, the mother liked to ride up front. Now the daughter sought reassurance that she might not be among 23 people killed when the club's bus ran off a highway Sunday -- Mother's Day.

(4/99)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Seven more skeletons have been discovered in a sewage pit at a sports stadium in northern Sri Lanka, raising to 23 the number of human remains found in the last week, officials said Monday.