(11/06)

BEIJING (Reuters) - At least 25 coal miners in north China suffocated after illegally stored explosives caught fire, generating toxic gas, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.

(9/06)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rescuers on Sunday found the bodies of the last four miners trapped deep underground at a remote Russian gold mine, bringing the final death toll to 25.

(8/06)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb attack aimed at a convoy of NATO troops in southern Afghanistan killed at least 21 civilians, local officials said, and four Canadian soldiers also died on Thursday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Up to 25 people were killed and 75 wounded in multiple attacks in a majority Shi'ite area in southern Baghdad late on Sunday, police said.

(7/06)

FREETOWN (Reuters) - At least 25 people drowned after their boat capsized in heavy rain at the mouth of a river in Sierra Leone, the head of a boat owners' association in the West African country said on Monday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Twenty-five militants were killed by U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday, as the U.S. military prepares to hand over security responsibilities in the violent south.

(6/06)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Flash floods have killed at least 25 people in remote towns in southwest China where 30 are missing, while the northeast is suffering sustained drought, state media said on Wednesday.

(5/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombs killed at least 25 people in Baghdad on Tuesday, police said, in separate attacks that underlined the security challenge facing Iraq's still incomplete government.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents attacked a town in the southern Afghan province of Helmand and nine policemen and 16 Taliban were killed in several hours of fighting, the province's deputy governor said on Thursday.

(4/06)

NAMU, Nigeria (Reuters) - Tribal militia armed with guns, machetes, and bows and arrows killed about 25 people in three days in a land dispute in the central state of Plateau, authorities and witnesses said on Thursday.

(3/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen raided a small town near Baghdad and shot dead at least 25 people in what police said on Friday was a sectarian attack by Sunnis on Shi'ites, latest in a string of killings since a Shi'ite shrine was bombed last week.

(10/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least 25 people in a small Shi'ite town northeast of Baghdad on Saturday, casting a shadow over political jockeying in the capital where parties finalized their alliances ahead of December 15 polls.

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Heavy fighting broke out in Ramadi, a rebellious city west of Baghdad, on Sunday and U.S. planes bombed areas in the east of the city, killing 25 people, residents and a local doctor said.

(7/05)

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - U.S. forces based in Afghanistan killed 24 suspected Islamist militants inside Pakistan after coming under rocket fire from across the border that killed an Afghan soldier, officials said on Friday.

(6/05)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - As many as 25 people were killed in police raids on Friday and Saturday in the slums of Haiti's capital after the government said it would get tougher on gangs, morgue workers and witnesses said.

(5/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. forces battled insurgents for five hours in eastern Afghan mountains and two Marines and up to 23 rebels were believed killed, the U.S. military said on Monday.

(3/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked suicide bomber assassinated the top anti-corruption police officer in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday, and U.S. troops said they killed 24 insurgents in a battle on the outskirts of Baghdad.

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - At least 25 people were feared drowned Saturday after a bus fell into a canal in the western Indian state of Gujarat, police said.

MANILA (Reuters) - At least 25 elementary school children died and close to 80 people were hospitalized on Wednesday after eating fried cassava balls in a remote village on Bohol island in the central Philippines, local officials said.

(12/04)

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops backed by warplanes killed 25 guerrillas in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday after facing a coordinated assault involving two suicide bombs and dozens of insurgents, the military said.

(11/04)

EL FASHER, Sudan (Reuters) - A Sudanese warplane killed 25 rebels Wednesday in a bombing raid on a village in western Sudan's troubled Darfur region, a rebel commander said.

(9/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi fighters and U.S. troops clashed in Baghdad's Sadr City slums Tuesday in firefights that killed 24 Iraqis and one US soldier and threatened to wreck a cease-fire called by rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

(7/04)

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Arab militia burned alive shackled villagers during an attack violating a fragile truce in Sudan's Darfur region, African Union (AU) cease-fire monitors said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. marines killed 25 guerrillas, wounded 17 and captured 25 during several hours of fighting in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi Wednesday, a military statement said Thursday.

SANAA, Yemen (Reuters) - Yemeni forces have killed a further 25 supporters of an anti-U.S. rebel religious leader and offered a $54,000 reward for his capture after nearly three weeks of fighting, a government paper said Friday.

(5/04)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty-five prisoners have died while being held by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and two of them were murdered in Iraq by Americans, one a soldier and the other a contractor working for the CIA, U.S. Army officials said on Tuesday.

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least 25 people were killed and 40 wounded when a fuel tank exploded in a remote village in western Afghanistan on Sunday following a welding accident in a market, government officials said.

(4/04)

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Fighting in the Iraqi town of Falluja has killed at least 36 civilians over the past day, doctors said on Wednesday, including 25 killed in a house destroyed in an attack that locals blamed on U.S. forces.

(3/04)

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - At least 25 people were killed in Ivory Coast on Thursday in clashes involving security forces and both opponents and supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo, prompting opposition groups to withdraw from the government.

(2/04)

NABIRE, Indonesia (Reuters) - Residents of a Indonesian town camped outside their damaged homes on Monday fearing more aftershocks a day after a massive earthquake killed 25 people and injured nearly 200.

(1/04)

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian road marshals said on Thursday 22 people were burned to death in southwest Oyo state when the buses in which they were traveling went up in flames after a head-on collision. Olu Familoni, Oyo state sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, said three other travelers died in a separate accident on the Lagos-Ibadan highway.

(12/03)

KATHMANDU, Nepal (Reuters) - At least 25 people, including 11 policemen and 13 Maoist rebels, were killed in an escalation of violence in Nepal, officials said Sunday.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Sudanese rebels said on Thursday the government had killed 25 people in an air raid in a poor western region, where analysts say growing conflict threatens a peace deal to end two decades of civil war in the south.

cHANDIGARH, India (Reuters) - At least 25 people were killed when a crowded state transport service bus crashed into a river in northern India on Tuesday, authorities said.

(10/03)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali troops stormed a Maoist guerrilla training camp in the country's west and killed at least 25 rebels, state radio said on Thursday.

(9/03)

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India accused Pakistan on Thursday of refusing to cooperate in the fight against terrorism in Kashmir as 25 people were killed in the disputed Himalayan region.

(8/02)

BHOPAL, India (Reuters) - A dam burst under the pressure of heavy monsoon rains in central India on Wednesday, washing away at least 25 people, officials said.

(6/02)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Another victim of the weekend fire at a Beijing Internet cafe has died, bringing the death toll from the blaze to 25, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.

(4/01)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Far-right paramilitary fighters have killed at least 25 civilians in the rural Colombian locality of Naya because they suspected them of collaborating with leftist rebels, an official and witnesses said on Saturday.

(10/00)

The death toll in Italy and Switzerland rose to 22, with the mud-caked body of a 1-year-old Italian boy among the latest uncovered. A total of 25 people in the two countries were missing and feared dead.

LONDON (Reuters) - Twenty-five people were killed by a gas explosion at a coal mine in northwest China Wednesday and rescue workers were looking for more victims, Xinhua news agency said.

(6/00)

HARARE (Reuters) - Congolese President Laurent Kabila's allies have recaptured the northern town of Bomongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and killed 25 rebels, a Zimbabwe army spokesman said Friday.

(1/99)

LUANDA, Angola (Reuters) -- Twenty-five people were killed and 100 wounded as Angola's UNITA rebels shelled the government-controlled town of Malanje for the second day on Tuesday, Angolan national radio reported.

(11/98)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Fire swept through a cold storage plant under construction, killing at least 25 workers and injuring 15 others today in the southern port city of Pusan, police said.