(12/06)

CUAUTITLAN, Mexico (Reuters) - A freight train smashed into a bus as it crossed a railroad track outside Mexico City on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and injuring 12, authorities said.

(9/06)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - All 24 people on board a helicopter chartered by conservation group WWF in Nepal were killed after the aircraft crashed in bad weather two days ago, officials said on Monday.

(8/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - Two French soldiers have been killed in an ambush in Afghanistan, the French Defense Ministry said on Saturday, the latest casualties in the bloodiest stretch of violence since the Taliban were overthrown five years ago. Two other French soldiers were wounded but were in stable condition. Foreign forces said they killed 22 rebels in air and artillery strikes on Friday in the south, where the Taliban resurgence is at its strongest.

(6/06)

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Seven apparently coordinated bomb attacks killed at least 24 people in the northern Iraqi oil hub city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, police and hospital sources said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen dragged 24 civilians out of their cars at a makeshift checkpoint in a town north of Baghdad on Sunday and shot them "execution style", a senior police official said.

(5/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pledged to rein in sectarian violence and rally his divided nation behind a unity government that was inaugurated on Saturday as bomb attacks killed 24 people.

(4/06)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Twenty-four miners were confirmed dead and eight were missing after an explosion tore through a coal mine in northwest China's Shaanxi province, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday.

(2/06)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Landslides and floods triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 24 people in Indonesia's eastern city of Manado, search and rescue officials said on Wednesday.

(12/05)

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An avalanche in northwestern Pakistan caused by an earthquake aftershock has killed 24 people, police said on Friday.

(10/05)

Bali police chief Made Mangku Pastika told reporters two people were being questioned in connection with Saturday night's suicide bombings at beach restaurants, which a hospital official said killed 22 people and wounded 135.

(9/05)

DALLAS (Reuters) - A bus carrying elderly Hurricane Rita evacuees from the Houston area burst into flames outside Dallas before dawn on Friday, killing at least 24 people trapped inside, officials said.

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Maoists rebels set off a land mine under a security vehicle, blowing it high into the air and killing at least 23 policemen and a civilian in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, officials said on Sunday.

(7/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan authorities found the decapitated bodies of six policemen at the weekend while 18 people were killed in the south of the country in increased violence ahead of elections in September.

(6/05)

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's opposition said 24 people were killed on Thursday in a series of protests across the vast central African nation where thousands marched to demand the government quit because of delayed elections.

(5/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed an Oil Ministry official on Thursday and escalating violence claimed at least 24 more lives, fueling fears Iraq may be moving toward civil war.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents killed at least 24 people in a wave of ambushes and bomb blasts in Baghdad on Thursday, the latest attacks in a surge of violence that has greeted the formation of a new Iraqi cabinet.

(2/05)

KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) - An explosion at an ammunition dump in the southern Sudanese town of Juba killed 24 people on Wednesday, a police statement issued by the Interior Ministry said.

(9/04)

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb attack on Saturday outside the regional headquarters of the Iraqi National Guard in the northern city of Kirkuk killed 23 men, most of whom were waiting to join the force, doctors said.

(6/04)

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying United Nations staff and air workers crashed into a hillside in Sierra Leone Tuesday, killing all 24 people aboard, U.N. officials said.

(12/03)

CAIRO (Reuters) - Rebels from west Sudan said on Tuesday government-armed militias and warplanes had killed at least 24 people in the past four days, forcing civilians to flee to rebel camps and mountain caves in the arid Darfur region.

(1/03)

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Two Palestinian suicide bombers killed 22 other people and injured more than 100 in back-to-back blasts on Sunday in Israel's commercial hub Tel Aviv, police said.

(12/02)

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - At least 24 people were killed and up to 60 injured on Saturday in a crash involving two buses and a truck in Pakistan's Punjab province, police said.

(11/01)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twenty-four passengers and crew were feared dead late Monday after a civilian aircraft crashed in the Yaroslavl region northeast of Moscow, news agencies reported. The Ilyushin-18 was en route to Moscow's Domodedovo airport from Khatanga in Siberia when it disappeared from radar screens Monday night, the Interfax news agency quoted the Emergencies Ministry as saying.

(3/01)

MANILA (Reuters) - At least 24 people were killed in two pre-dawn road accidents on Monday in the Philippine capital Manila and in a suburban town, witnesses and officials said.

(11/99)

ROME (Reuters) - Family and friends of 24 people killed in the crash last week of a U.N. chartered aid flight in Kosovo paid their last respects to the victims Monday in Rome.

(10/98)

MOSCOW (AP) -- Negligence caused five train cars full of cargo to break away and collide with a bus in the Russian Far East, killing 24 people, transport officials said today.