(10/06)

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Six suicide bombers including one in a fuel truck blew themselves up near police stations and U.S. forces in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday in violence that killed at least 20 people.

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Medicine adulterated with an industrial solvent killed 26 people, many of them elderly, in Panama in the last month, health officials said on Wednesday.

(8/06)

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - The United States military said it had killed 26 rebels on Friday night after coming under fire from several locations in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, west of Baghdad.

(5/06)

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Rescue teams braved ferocious winds on Thursday searching for 26 crew members missing after a bulk carrier ferrying iron ore sank in rough seas off South Africa's eastern coast.

(4/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least 26 people outside a Shi'ite mosque north of Baghdad on Wednesday as Iraqi leaders failed to make progress toward forming a national unity government they hope can avert sectarian civil war.

(3/06)

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 26 people have been killed in clashes between factions led by rival Muslim clerics in Pakistan's tribal region on the border with Afghanistan, intelligence officials said on Tuesday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 25 people, most of them policemen, were killed when a suicide car bomber blew himself up outside the headquarters of the Iraqi police's major crimes unit in Baghdad, the Interior Ministry said.

(12/05)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Christmas day fire gutted a bar in south China, killing at least 26 people and injuring another eight, residents and state media said on Monday.

(9/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suicide bombers killed 24 policemen in Baghdad on Thursday, causing more carnage after al Qaeda in Iraq declared war on the country's majority Shi'ite Muslims and anyone linked to the U.S.-backed government.

(7/05)

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of Iraqi army recruits in northern Iraq on Friday, killing 25 people and wounding 35, as Sunni Muslims protested in Baghdad against alleged government torture.

BEIJING (Reuters) - An explosion in a coal mine in northern China has killed 26 people, state media said on Thursday, the latest tragedy to strike the world's deadliest mining industry.

(5/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas bent on toppling Iraq's new U.S.-backed government detonated bombs at a Baghdad restaurant and a Shi'ite mosque on Monday, part of a series of attacks that killed at least 26 and wounded 130.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 26 people were killed and 17 injured in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday when three buildings collapsed after gas cylinders exploded, police and witnesses said.

(4/05)

PALASHBARI, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Rescuers in Bangladesh were trying Tuesday to reach up to 150 people trapped in rubble after a nine-story garment factory collapsed near the capital killing at least 26, officials said.

LUANDA (Reuters) - Angola launched a massive public information campaign on Tuesday in a bid to stamp out the killer Marburg virus as the toll from the worst ever outbreak topped 200. [174 already counted]

(12/04)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Maoist rebels ambushed an army patrol in the west of Nepal on Wednesday and 20 security men and at least six rebels were killed in the battle, an army officer and state radio said.

(10/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of car bomb blasts tore through Baghdad and the northern Iraq city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 100.

SIALKOT, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 25 people in a mosque packed with worshippers and wounded more than 50 when he blew himself up during Friday prayers in the eastern Pakistani town of Sialkot, police said.

(9/03)

East Coast Begins Huge Isabel Clean-Up; 26 Dead // WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities airlifted relief supplies as communities along the U.S. East Coast began a massive clean-up after Hurricane Isabel on Saturday, but storm victims said it would take months to recover.

(11/02)

SAN GIULIANO DI PUGLIA, Italy (Reuters) - Grieving families, fearful of further tremors, spent the night in a makeshift tent camp in a small Italian farming town where 26 young children died when an earthquake destroyed their school.

(8/02)

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Suspected Islamic rebels killed 26 villagers overnight in a raid in western Algeria, the official Algerian news agency APS reported on Friday.

KABUL (Reuters) - A massive explosion killed at least 26 people and wounded dozens when it tore through the premises of a road building agency near the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Friday, the Defense Ministry said.

(7/02)

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - A fire sparked by a barman's pyrotechnic stunt ripped though a disco packed with rich young partygoers in the Peruvian capital on Saturday, killing up to 26 people and a lion and tiger at a fatal "zoo party."

(6/02)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Twenty-six peasants were ambushed and murdered in southern Mexico, apparently killed by rival farmers in a long-running land dispute, officials said on Saturday.

(4/02)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A bomb killed at least 17 pro-Moscow police in rebel Chechnya Thursday, two hours before President Vladimir Putin declared the war over. The attacks brought the reported 24-hour death toll to 26, including two small children and a pregnant woman, in one of the bloodiest days of a conflict that has raged throughout Putin's two years in office.

(12/01)

(AP) - A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated nail-studded explosives on a bus full of Israelis in this port city Sunday, killing 15 people, just hours after Islamic militants set off deadly explosions in downtown Jerusalem. The two suicide attacks and a Gaza shooting killed 26 people - many of them teens - and injured nearly 200.

(9/99)

TOKYO (AP) -- Typhoon Bart lashed southern Japan today, sweeping huge waves over homes, knocking cranes onto buildings and leaving at least 26 people dead and more than 430 people injured.

(7/99)

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's maritime services said Tuesday it halted a search for 26 crewmembers of a trawler that sank Saturday off the Eastern Cape coast. ``We called off the search because the weather is not favorable and we are confident that the area we searched yesterday was the right area. Nothing has been found so far, no debris, nobody,'' said rescue official Maj. Piet Paxton.

(5/99)

TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - A strong earthquake hit southern Iran Friday, killing at least 26 people and destroying 800 houses in dozens of villages, Iranian state media reported. The quake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale also injured at least 100 people when it struck a mountainous area 30 miles southwest of Shiraz, the main city in Fars province, in the early hours of the morning, state television said.

(3/99)

NEW DELHI -- At least 26 people were killed, thousands were left homeless and many were trapped in the flames on Sunday after a fire raged through a crowded slum district of Delhi.