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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. marines died on Thursday from wounds suffered in combat in Iraq's western Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Friday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in two separate roadside bomb attacks on Wednesday in and around Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq, one by a roadside bomb in the capital and two in the restive western province of Anbar, the U.S. military said in a statement on Monday.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Armed militants attacked a Nigerian oil facility operated by France's Total on Thursday, killing three people, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded one north of Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday in a statement.
LONDON (Reuters) - British police feared a serial killer could be on the loose after finding the naked bodies of three prostitutes and reports two others were missing on Monday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas traded gunfire with Hamas policemen in Gaza on Tuesday as tensions soared after the killing of three young sons of one of Abbas's top intelligence officials.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - All three crew members of an air ambulance helicopter were killed on Sunday after it crashed in dense fog about 80 miles east of Los Angeles, officials said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded by a roadside bomb in Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday.
KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of foreign troops in the center of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Thursday, killing two civilian and wounding 11 more, police and witnesses said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed two Canadian soldiers in an attack on an alliance convoy in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on Monday.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels ambushed an army truck in the northern Sri Lankan district of Vavuniya on Saturday, the military said, killing three soldiers and wounding 15 civilians.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three American soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Iraq, the military said on Friday.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Three NATO soldiers were killed when their patrol ran into a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nuristan on Tuesday, military officials said, as violence surged ahead of the first winter snowfalls.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed two Palestinian gunmen and a policeman and wounded 23 people in a series of air strikes and gun battles that erupted in northern Gaza on Wednesday, security sources and witnesses said.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Three people were killed and 24 wounded in near-simultaneous truck bomb attacks on two Algerian police stations, police said on Monday, in what witnesses called the most elaborate assault by Islamist rebels in several years.
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians in raids against militants in the occupied West Bank on Friday, local residents said.
OAXACA, Mexico (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire in Mexico's colonial city of Oaxaca on Friday, killing three people including a U.S. journalist near road blocks set up by leftists pushing to topple a state governor.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - An Indian soldier shot dead three fellow soldiers at a security camp in Kashmir after an argument before attempting to kill himself, an army spokesman said on Saturday.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops killed at least three Tamil Tiger rebels on an apparent suicide mission when they attacked a naval base in the southern city of Galle on Wednesday, a naval spokesman said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed south of Baghdad on Saturday when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb, the U.S. military said in a statement on Sunday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. Marines were killed in action in Anbar province in western Iraq on Monday, the U.S. military said in a statement on Wednesday.
RINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Three policemen were killed and eight wounded when Islamist militants attacked a security camp in the heart of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir, police and witnesses said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers and an Afghan soldier were killed in a clash with insurgents in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar, the U.S.-led coalition force said on Tuesday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Three Colombian police officers were killed when their helicopter crashed as it escorted airplanes fumigating fields of illegal coca leaves used to make cocaine, authorities said on Friday.
BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - A 2-year-old boy in Idaho and an 86-year-old woman in Maryland who both died from suspected E. coli infections raised to three the number of deaths from an outbreak traced to fresh spinach, state health officials said on Friday.
PALU, Indonesia (Reuters) - Three Christian militants convicted of leading a mob that killed Muslims were executed by an Indonesian police firing squad early on Friday amidst tight security in Central Sulawesi province, police said.
KABUL (Reuters) - A blast hit a car on a road just to the south of the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing three Afghan aid workers and wounding one, police said.
HAT YAI, Thailand (Reuters) - Six simultaneous motorcycle bombs killed at least three people and wounded more than 60 on a busy street in the southern Thai town of Hat Yai on Saturday, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a market in central Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least three people and wounding 13 and police said they expected the casualty toll to rise.
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Two U.S. medical volunteers and their pilot died on Friday when the small plane in which they were traveling crashed near Mexico's border with the United States, a police spokesman said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three Palestinians, at least one of them a militant, during separate operations in the Gaza Strip and West Bank on Wednesday, witnesses said.
LA PAZ, Mexico (Reuters) - At least three people, including one Briton, were killed when Hurricane John slammed into Mexico's Baja California peninsula, authorities said on Monday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces shot and killed a father and his son when they raided a house in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, and a third Palestinian was killed by troops near a Gaza border crossing, medics and witnesses said.
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WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pro-Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan beheaded two men they accused of being U.S. spies and a boy who had been kidnapped was found dead in the same region, security officials said on Wednesday.
HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb outside an Iraqi army recruiting center in the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad, killed at least three people and wounded 25 on Wednesday, a police source said.
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Security forces and gunmen clashed in the capital of Pakistan's Baluchistan province on Tuesday after prayers for a slain rebel leader, while a blast elsewhere killed three people, police said.
ANTALYA, Turkey (Reuters) - A bomb blast killed three people and wounded dozens in the coastal city Antalya on Monday in a second day of attacks on Turkish resorts apparently designed to scare off tourists and hit the economy.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Three Lebanese soldiers were killed on Wednesday while clearing unexploded Israeli shells in southern Lebanon, underscoring the dangers of a region awaiting the deployment of thousands of U.N. peacekeepers.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft and commandos raided a Hizbollah bastion in eastern Lebanon and killed three guerillas on Saturday in the first big attack since a truce halted Israel's 34-day war with the Shi'ite Muslim group.
KABUL (Reuters) - Three soldiers with the U.S.-led coalition forces were killed in a clash in Afghanistan on Saturday, a coalition spokesman said, the latest casualties among foreign forces in the rising violence by the Taliban.
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian gunmen on Friday and wounded two other people in confrontations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, medics and witnesses said.
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - A bomb exploded inside a temple in India's troubled northeastern state of Manipur on Wednesday, killing 3 people and injuring more than 30 others, police said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers have been killed in heavy fighting with Taliban guerrillas in northeastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in action in the restive Iraqi province of Anbar on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Rockets fired by Hizbollah guerrillas into northern Israel from Lebanon killed at least three people and landed in the deepest area yet since the start of an offensive three weeks ago.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three roadside bombs exploded in central Baghdad on Wednesday near a group of laborers seeking work, killing three people and wounding nine, police sources said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Three British soldiers were killed in an ambush in southern Afghanistan the day after NATO forces took over the violence-plagued region from U.S. troops.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a market in a small town south of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing three people in the second such raid in the area in three days, police said.
LASHKAR GAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber destroyed an Afghan government office in the southern province of Helmand on Monday killing at least three officials, witnesses said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces moved back into the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing at least three militants in an offensive that has continued as fighting with Lebanese Hizbollah guerillas opened a second front.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents killed three U.S. soldiers in Iraq's rebellious western province of Anbar on Saturday, the U.S. military said in a statement.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Execution-style murders of prison guards in Brazil's Sao Paulo state over the past week have led to strikes by frightened guards and deteriorating conditions for many inmates, officials said on Thursday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb attack on a police patrol in eastern Baghdad on Saturday killed three people and wounded 10, including police and civilians, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a market in a town just south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least three people, but police said the toll could rise.
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces bombed Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan on Sunday after two British soldiers and their Afghan interpreter were killed in an attack on a base.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-led group posted video footage on the Internet on Sunday showing the killing of three men it said were Russian hostages seized in Iraq earlier this month.
GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants including Hamas gunmen launched a major raid on an Israeli army post near the Gaza Strip border on Sunday in an attack that left casualties on both sides, Israeli media and other sources said. At least three militants were killed in the raid near the Kerem Shalom border crossing, an Israeli rescue service and Palestinian sources said.
ACCRA (Reuters) - A Ghanaian man and two children were killed by speeding cars during raucous street parties after the West African country won soccer matches that clinched it a place in the World Cup last 16, police said on Friday.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border killed three paramilitary troops and wounded three on Wednesday, a government official said.
GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike aimed at Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip killed three children standing nearby on Tuesday after Israel's defense minister pledged to step up action against cross-border rocket salvoes.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were missing and one was killed after their team was attacked at a traffic-control point southwest of Baghdad, the Pentagon said on Friday.
MIAMI (Reuters) - Three Arabs hanged themselves with clothes and bedsheets, the first prisoners to die at Guantanamo base since the United States began holding terrorism suspects there in 2002, U.S. officials said on Saturday.
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NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants in separate pre-dawn raids across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, witnesses and medics said.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - A grenade killed three Colombian children on Thursday when it exploded after they picked it up on the way home from school, police said.
HAVANA (Reuters) - Torrential rains caused flash floods that wrecked dwellings and killed at least three people in Havana, officials said on Wednesday.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen in a car killed three men and wounded seven among a crowd of workers looking for day laboring jobs on farms north of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.
KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide car-bomber driving a taxi killed two Afghans on Sunday in a rare attack on a U.S. military convoy in the capital, Afghan officials said.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pro-Taliban militants killed two Pakistani troopers in a grenade attack on a paramilitary compound in North Waziristan, but one of their own men was also killed, a government official said on Saturday.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed two Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday and gunmen shot dead a member of Hamas's military wing in mounting internal violence in the Gaza Strip.
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - A policeman and two rebels were killed on Tuesday in a gun battle in the southern Russian region of Dagestan, police said.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Three people were killed and 10 others injured when tornadoes danced across parts of northern Texas, officials said on Wednesday.
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan police killed three Taliban insurgents who ambushed a patrol in a southern province where British troops are overseeing security, a provincial official said on Wednesday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A 19-year-old Chinese man set fire to a kindergarten classroom on Monday, killing at least three children, Xinhua news agency said, the latest in a series of school attacks around the country.
GAZA (Reuters) - At least three armed Palestinians were killed on Monday in gun battles in the Gaza Strip between the rival Hamas and Fatah groups, the most serious internal violence in the territory since Hamas came to power.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed on Friday when their vehicle was blasted by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.
KHAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Three Pakistani policemen were killed in a suspected Taliban attack on a checkpoint near the Afghan border in the latest violent response to government efforts to rid the region of militants.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police hunting for bombers behind attacks in the Sinai peninsula killed three suspects on Monday, the Interior Ministry said.
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EL-ARISH, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian police on Sunday shot dead three men suspected of belonging to a group of Sinai Bedouin who killed 18 people in the Red Sea resort of Dahab last week, police sources said.
SERUNUWARA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Ethnic clashes rocked Sri Lanka's northeast on Friday after mine attacks blamed on the Tamil Tiger rebels killed at least three in a wave of violence that has raised fears of a return to civil war.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali police opened fire to block tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters marching into Kathmandu on Thursday to confront King Gyanendra, killing at least three people and wounding up to 100.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. Marines were killed in combat in Iraq's western Anbar province on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Violent protests against the king spread across Nepal on Sunday as a third person was shot dead by troops and thousands of activists defied a curfew to burn government vehicles and clash with police.
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan troops on Wednesday fired tear gas at protesters who poured onto Caracas streets and blocked highways in anger over the execution-style murder of three young brothers kidnapped more than a month ago.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of Kurds clashed with police in southeast Turkey on Monday and in Istanbul three people were killed as they fled a bus set ablaze by protesters, bringing the death toll in violence over the past week to 15.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli planes hit rocket launch sites in Gaza early on Friday, hours after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed at least three Israelis near a West Bank settlement in the worst spike in violence recently.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - An attack on a U.N. site in south Sudan, most likely by Ugandan rebels, pushed peacekeepers into their first deadly exchange of fire, a U.N. official said on Wednesday. Three attackers were killed and two U.N. soldiers were wounded, he said.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A man opened fire with a pair of handguns at a central California Denny's restaurant at lunchtime on Wednesday, killing two people and wounding two others before apparently taking his own life, police said.
BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan said on Monday bird flu had killed three people, in the country's first known cases in humans.
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Three people were killed and 16 wounded on Thursday in an explosion possibly caused by a suicide bomber in the eastern Turkish city of Van, officials said.
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug hitmen with assault rifles killed a police chief on Tuesday in a shootout that left two others dead in this crime-ridden city on the U.S.-Mexican border, police said.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian rebels killed three civilians with a bomb intended for soldiers on Monday, the latest in a series of attacks President Alvaro Uribe called a "cowardly" attempt to erode his support ahead of elections.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three Russian servicemen died in a clash with Chechen separatists when they stumbled upon the rebels' forest camp, local media reported on Saturday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - At least three people died and more than 50 have been injured during carnival festivities in Haiti, which has been plagued by political and gang violence, doctors and witnesses said on Tuesday.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Dozens of Maoist rebels ambushed an army patrol in eastern Nepal on Monday and shot dead at least three soldiers, an army officer said.
KABUL (Reuters) - A blast killed an Afghan policeman and wounded two colleagues on Wednesday and two intelligence officers kidnapped this week have been found dead, officials said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb blast killed at least three children in Baghdad on Wednesday as they walked to school, Interior Ministry sources said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three policemen were killed as paramilitary police in southern Russia tried to flush out armed insurgents holed up in a village, Russian media reported on Friday.
SA0 PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Three people were killed and dozens hurt when a barrier collapsed as fans of the Mexican teen group RBD waited for an autograph session in a shopping mall in Brazilian city of Sao Paulo on Saturday, officials said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Three people were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday in fresh protests against cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad, while the United States accused Iran and Syria of deliberately stoking Muslim anger.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three members of an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement and wounded five others in an air strike which targeted a car in Gaza City early on Sunday, medics and witnesses said.
JOH AIRONG, Thailand (Reuters) - Three bombs exploded in Thailand's restive Muslim south on Thursday, killing three people and wounding six, police and hospital staff said.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - As the tropical sun set over Mexico's Pacific coast, tourists drifted away from the pool, waiters shook the evening's first cocktails and three men sat murdered in a car, their brains splattered over the seats.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Three people were killed when a Pakistani passenger train derailed on Sunday and one carriage plunged into a ravine but all other passengers were rescued, military spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. Marines were killed in western Iraq on Friday when a suicide car bomber blew up near them, the U.S. military said in a statement.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a Sri Lankan army patrol in the island's restive east on Monday with a claymore fragmentation mine, killing three soldiers and wounding two as a new peace initiative was due to start.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A Taliban bomb attack on a Canadian military convoy killed a Canadian diplomat and at least two Afghans in the heart of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Sunday, officials said.
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian bomber blew himself up and Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in clashes on Thursday in the occupied West Bank, security sources and Palestinian witnesses said.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tigers ambushed two patrols in northeastern Sri Lanka, killing one soldier but losing two militants, the army said on Monday, as a search continued at sea for 13 sailors missing after a gunboat sank.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Three police officers were killed by Maoist rebels in Nepal on Thursday and at least 11 people were wounded in the worst day of violence since Maoists ended a four-month ceasefire, police and witnesses said.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Two Maoist guerrillas and a soldier were killed in fierce fighting in western Nepal on Tuesday, days before a unilateral ceasefire declared by the rebels was due to expire, the army and insurgents said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police shot three villagers dead during an attack on a southern wind power plant by a crowd armed with spears, knives and Molotov cocktails, China's Xinhua news agency said.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed three militants in a West Bank gunbattle and shelled the Gaza Strip to stop rocket fire on Thursday in escalating violence that could complicate upcoming elections on both sides.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers said on Friday they had killed three sailors during the most serious clash with the navy since a 2002 cease-fire, and they vowed to continue to fire in self-defense.
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen in police uniforms freed a suspected guerrilla from an Iraqi hospital on Wednesday, killing three guards and wounding five in the process, the head of security at the clinic in the northern city of Kirkuk said.
RANGAMATI, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Three tribal people died in a gunbattle between rival groups on the anniversary of a treaty that ended a 25-year insurgency in Bangladesh's southeastern Chittagong Hill Tracts, police said on Saturday.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed three people including a district chief in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, an official said on Saturday.
DHAKA (Reuters) - A second suspected suicide attack in three days near a court building in a Bangladeshi town has killed two people and wounded 25 others during a protest march against violence in the country, police said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops fearing a car bomb attack fired on a crowded minivan and killed at least three civilians including a child north of Baghdad on Monday.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A dead Indonesian woman has tested positive for bird flu but there was no evidence two brothers who died were also victims of the virus, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two Sunni Arab politicians and their bodyguard were shot dead while driving in western Baghdad on Monday, members of their party said.
KARACHI (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded outside a KFC fast-food restaurant in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Tuesday, killing three people and wounding 15, police and doctors said.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Three people were shot dead in the Ethiopian capital on Thursday, doctors said, in a third straight day of political unrest that has killed at least 42 and stirred fears for the giant African country's stability.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Men in black clothes and masks beheaded three teenage Christian girls on Saturday in eastern Indonesia as they walked to school near the Muslim town of Poso, officials said.
NOAKHALI, Bangladesh (Reuters) - At least three people were killed and nearly 50 injured in clashes with police in southeastern Bangladesh on Thursday, police and officials said.
BISHKEK (Reuters) - Inmates at a prison hospital in Kyrgyzstan killed a parliamentarian and two other people after taking his entourage hostage on Thursday, the government said.
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish troops killed three Maoist militants in eastern Turkey on Monday during operations which are also aimed against Kurdish rebels before the onset of the harsh winter in the mountainous region.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinians near the Israel-Gaza border on Monday, Palestinian medics said, in an incident that could cloud a planned summit between Israeli and Palestinian leaders this week.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim militants killed one policemen and two itinerant Chinese workers in restive southern Thailand on Friday, a police official said.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three Palestinian gunmen in the occupied West Bank on Friday, pressing ahead with raids against militants despite a halt to cross-border rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinian militants near the West Bank town of Jenin on Thursday, a Palestinian security source said.
MANILA (Reuters) - Three teenagers were killed and at least eight others wounded when a retired army sergeant threw a grenade at a group of boys at a town fiesta in the southern Philippines, police said on Saturday.
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MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - A car blast in the Russian region of Dagestan near Chechnya killed at least three police officers on Saturday, a Reuters witness and officials said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in a car bomb blast in Baghdad late on Wednesday, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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NETANYA, Israel (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber killed two people at an Israeli shopping mall and an explosives-rigged car blew up in a Jewish settlement on Tuesday, dealing heavy blows to a tottering five-month-old truce.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Armed police have arrested an Italian man who killed three people and barricaded himself in his home when judicial officials came to repossess it, a senior police official told Reuters.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three bombs shook Baghdad after dawn on Thursday, killing at least three policemen and causing mayhem in the downtown Karrada commercial district.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb that targeted a long row of cars queuing outside an Iraqi petrol station killed at least three civilians and injured another in the city of Baquba on Wednesday, police said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents have assassinated three clerics in Baghdad in an escalating wave of violence that authorities fear is aimed at sparking civil war.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A bomb wrapped as a gift exploded in a home in India's Kashmir, killing three family members, police said on Friday, the latest in a string of bomb attacks in the volatile and disputed region.
LOGAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Demonstrations spread in Afghanistan on Thursday over a report that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Koran, and officials said three protesters were killed.
KABUL (Reuters) - The body of a Philippine man has been found in an Internet cafe wrecked by a bomb in the center of the Afghan capital, taking the death toll in the blast to three, an interior ministry official said on Sunday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint in southern Baghdad on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding eight, police said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas fired at least seven rockets into the city of Falluja on Saturday, killing three Iraqi civilians and wounding another, the U.S. military said.
CAIRO (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck at foreign tourists near Egypt's most famous museum Saturday while his veiled sister and his girlfriend opened fire at a tourist bus in attacks that left all three dead, officials said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed by mortar fire at a U.S. base in the city of Ramadi overnight, the U.S. military said Sunday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed three Palestinian youths aged between 14 and 16 in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian medics said, triggering mortar attacks on Jewish settlements and militant threats to drop abandon a truce.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi security forces killed three suspected militants holed up in a house in northern Saudi Arabia on Sunday, state television said.
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SANAA (Reuters) - Islamic rebels ambushed and killed three Yemeni policemen on Tuesday in the second such attack in two days, sparking a fresh hunt for the group, Yemeni security sources said.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Islamic militant group Army of Ansar al-Sunna shot dead three Arab drivers in Iraq and posted an Internet videotape of the killings on Tuesday.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A powerful bomb tore through a shopping mall in the anti-Syrian Christian heartland north of Beirut Wednesday, killing three Asian workers and bringing Lebanon closer to chaos weeks before general elections.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A man on trial for rape grabbed a deputy's gun and opened fire inside an Atlanta courthouse on Friday, killing a judge and two other people before escaping and triggering a manhunt across several southeastern states.
MANILA (Reuters) - Islamic radicals being held at a police camp in the Philippine capital, Manila, snatched weapons from their guards while being served breakfast on Monday and shot dead three of them, police said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military death toll in the nearly two-year-old Iraq war topped 1,500 on Thursday, according to a count of casualty announcements made by the Pentagon. The U.S. military in Iraq announced the combat death of a soldier in Babil province and two more in a roadside bomb attack in central Baghdad, bringing to at least 1,502 the number of deaths of American troops and Defense Department civilians announced by the Pentagon.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Three people were killed on Monday when Haitian police opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators protesting the ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide a year ago, witnesses and officials said.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed a member of Iraq's National Guard and a civilian in the northern city of Baquba on Saturday, a National Guard official said.
MANILA (Reuters) - Fresh fighting broke out between troops and Muslim rebels on the remote southern island of Jolo on Sunday, the seventh day of a military offensive against militants who have vowed to fight to the last man. The military said three soldiers were killed and 13 were wounded when troops caught up with fleeing rebels in the island's interior on Sunday. It said the rebels suffered an undetermined number of casualties in air strikes and artillery fire.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian troops on Sunday used heavy weaponry and gas to kill three rebels holed up in a house near Chechnya, local media reported.
LOME (Reuters) - Togo's army clashed with protesters in the capital Lome on Saturday, killing at least three people, while West African officials told a government delegation to restore constitutional rule or face sanctions.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's security forces have killed three Islamic militants and captured another member, state media said on Wednesday.
GORI, Georgia (Reuters) - Three police were killed in ex-Soviet Georgia on Tuesday in a car bombing President Mikhail Saakashvili said was a terrorist act to derail peace talks with the nearby breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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ROME (Reuters) - Mobsters shot dead three people on Monday in a fresh upsurge of clan violence in the Mediterranean port city of Naples, Ansa news agency reported.
DHAKA (Reuters) - A bomb killed three people and wounded 50 at an opposition rally in northeastern Bangladesh on Thursday, police and witnesses said.
LONDON (Reuters) - A fierce storm packing winds of up to 125 mph battered Scotland and Northern Ireland, killing three people and leaving tens of thousands without electricity, police and emergency services said Wednesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen assassinated Baghdad's deputy police chief and a powerful roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers when it blew up their armored vehicle Monday as insurgents pressed a campaign to wreck Iraq's election.
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GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli drone fired two missiles into the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Thursday, killing two Palestinian militants and an 18-year-old youth, witnesses and medics said.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi police killed three militants in a shootout in the capital Riyadh, security sources said on Tuesday.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian militants in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarm Friday, medics said.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. Marines backed by aircraft fought insurgents in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, six weeks after launching a major attack that aimed to quell revolt in the city before next month's election. Three Marines were killed in the area, a spokesman said, describing a battle for a building which was destroyed by air power after guerrillas had tried to set up a strongpoint in it.
BIELSKO-BIALA, Poland (Reuters) - Three Polish soldiers died in a helicopter crash in Iraq on Wednesday, the military said, a day after Poland announced it would cut troop numbers there by one-third.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - One or two Iraqi civilians were killed in a suicide car bomb attack on an entrance to Baghdad's Green Zone government compound on Tuesday and between 15 and 20 were wounded, a doctor at a nearby civilian hospital said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed three Palestinians at a flashpoint Palestinian town on the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt on Wednesday, witnesses and medics said.
SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Three Iraqis were killed on Wednesday when a suicide car bomber attacked a U.S. convoy in the northern city of Samarra, a local police official said.
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Muslim militants stormed the heavily fortified U.S. consulate in Jeddah Monday before Saudi security forces regained control, shooting dead three attackers and capturing two.
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BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Robbers in Iraq killed three people, wounded six and made off with half a million dollars in cash on Tuesday after attacking a group of workers after they had picked up their firm's payroll money from a bank.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Dozens of Taliban guerrillas attacked the compound of an Afghan aid agency with rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns on Sunday, killing three guards, officials said.
HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian militants in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday, witnesses said.
ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen ambushed a convoy of Kurdish militiamen as they traveled to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, killing three and wounding nine, hospital sources in the nearby town of Arbil said.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli tank opened fire and killed three Egyptian policemen on the Gaza-Egypt border on Thursday after mistaking them for Palestinian militants planting explosives against Israeli forces, military officials said.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian rescue services were searching on Sunday for about 20 sailors missing after severe storms sank one ship and drove two aground near Algiers port, killing three seamen.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Three British soldiers have been killed in a deadly Iraqi region to which their unit had just redeployed to free up U.S. forces for an expected all-out offensive on Falluja, the country's most rebellious city.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three mutilated bodies have been found under a suspension bridge in central Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces battled rebels in Ramadi and pounded Falluja on Monday, but there was no sign that an all-out American-led offensive to retake the insurgent-held cities had begun on the eve of the U.S. presidential election. Three people were killed in the Ramadi fighting, including an Iraqi cameraman working for Reuters, apparently killed by a sniper after fierce clashes had died down.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian gunmen on Sunday, two who tried to infiltrate a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip and another in a gunbattle in the West Bank town of Jenin, Israeli military sources said.
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Three al Qaeda-linked militants were killed and three were wounded on Wednesday in a clash with Pakistani security forces in a troubled tribal region near the Afghan border, the military said.
KABUL (Reuters) - An American woman, believed to be a civilian, and a young Afghan girl died from their wounds after a suicide bomb attack in a busy shopping street in the Afghan capital, hospital staff said on Sunday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb attack on their convoy in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday night, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
RIYADH, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A senior Saudi militant was one of three gunmen killed in clashes with security forces in east Riyadh on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed two Palestinian teenagers and a gunman in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as the Israeli army pressed ahead with its biggest and bloodiest offensive in Gaza for four years.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli tanks shelled a town in the in the northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, killing three Palestinians and wounding 10 children in their houses, witnesses and medics said.
GAZA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - An Israeli helicopter missile killed two Palestinian militants in the Gaza refugee camp of Jabalya Tuesday night, hours after an air strike that killed the Islamic Jihad commander in the territory, medics said.
GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike on a northern Gaza refugee camp killed at least three Palestinian militants early on Monday, witnesses and medics said.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S. warplane attacked the rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja Friday night, killing at least three people, a Reuters witness and a hospital official said.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - A 15-year-old schoolboy armed with a pistol killed three fellow Argentine students and wounded six on Tuesday in a school shooting that shocked a country unaccustomed to such violence.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed three Iraqi National Guards in Mosul and rebels mortared a police academy in Baghdad on Monday, underscoring a warning by Secretary of State Colin Powell that Iraq's insurgency was worsening.
KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier was killed while on patrol in Afghanistan's eastern Paktia province this week on the same day two servicemen died in neighboring Paktika, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian woman suicide bomber blew herself up near a hitch-hiking post in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing two Israeli border policemen and wounding 17 people in the first such attack in the city in seven months.
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Suspected Taliban militants beheaded three Afghan soldiers in the troubled southern province of Zabul over the weekend in the latest pre-election violence, an official said Monday.
DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi Islamist group said on Sunday it killed three members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which cooperates with the Iraqi government, and posted a video tape on its Web site of the apparent beheadings.
BAIJI, Iraq (Reuters) - The decapitated bodies of three men, their heads strapped to their backs, were found dumped in bags by a roadside north of Baghdad Wednesday, Iraqi police and U.S. officials said.
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a West Bank car Monday killing a leader of a militant group linked to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction and two comrades, witnesses said.
GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli army kept up pressure in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, killing three Palestinians as forces sealed off the Palestinian territories for the Jewish holiday season in Israel.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Haitian police and U.N. troops shot and killed three rebels, and another group of rebels retaliated by briefly holding a group of policemen hostage on Wednesday.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters) - Powerful and strengthening Hurricane Ivan killed at least three people in Grenada and devastated its capital, St. Georges, as it pounded the tiny islands of the southeastern Caribbean on Tuesday. The storm killed three people in Grenada and destroyed the island's emergency operations center and the home of Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Several Taliban fighters were killed in a firefight with Afghan security forces in the southeast province of Khost near the border with Pakistan, the U.S. military said on Friday. An Afghan security officer said three Taliban were killed and one captured while two of his own men had been wounded in the fighting in Gurboz district, 110 miles southeast of Kabul.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Militants bombed Iraq's northern oil pipeline to Turkey on Thursday, halting exports, and killed three Turkish hostages in a campaign to wreck reconstruction efforts and undermine the interim government.
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AIN EL-HILWEH, Lebanon (Reuters) - Three people were killed and several others wounded Sunday when unknown gunmen attacked members of a Palestinian faction in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, witnesses said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. marines have been killed in action in Iraq's volatile Anbar province, the U.S. military said in a statement on Sunday.
KABUL (Reuters) - A man and two women were shot dead by Afghan and U.S.-led troops after their vehicle ran through a checkpoint on Saturday, a U.S. military statement said.
NASSIRIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - A blast ripped through a police station in the town of Nassiriya in southern Iraq on Friday, killing three police and wounding others, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least three people were killed and nine wounded on Tuesday when a car bomb ripped through a crowded street in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, witnesses said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three American soldiers were killed on Sunday in Najaf province, scene of fighting between U.S. forces and Shi'ite militiamen holed up in the holy city of Najaf, the military said.
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has reported three human deaths from bird flu, the first since the virus was declared over earlier this year, with more cases feared as health authorities investigate other fatalities in a southern province.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded outside the house of a local official north of Baghdad Monday, killing at least three people and wounding 14, police sources said.
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb exploded inside a restaurant in a western neighborhood of Karachi Sunday, killing at least three people and wounding 21 others, police and doctors said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers and their Afghan interpreter were killed Saturday when the vehicle they were traveling in struck an "improvised explosive device" in south Afghanistan, a statement issued by the U.S.-led military said.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - A bomb planted by Palestinian militants killed three people in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday during clashes with Israeli troops and tanks on a raid to find weapons-smuggling tunnels.
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TASHKENT (Reuters) - Uzbek police rounded up suspects in Friday's bombings near the U.S. and Israeli embassies and the state prosecutor's office, Itar-TASS news agency said Saturday as the death toll rose to three.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Three Iraqis were killed and 10 others wounded in clashes on Saturday between Iraqi insurgents and U.S. forces in the volatile city of Falluja, west of Baghdad, a doctor said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three pro-Moscow police were killed and two injured as they tried to subdue a group of rebels in a clash in a Chechen town, regional police said Thursday.
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A U.S. military adviser to Afghanistan's fledgling army and two Afghan soldiers were killed Thursday in clashes with renegade factions in the central province of Ghor, a senior local official said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. army soldiers and one marine have been killed in action in Iraq's Anbar province west of Baghdad in the past two days, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - A member of the regional council of Basra, Iraq's second largest city, was shot and killed Tuesday along with two bodyguards, a council spokesman said.
EITA AL-SHAAB, Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas killed two Israeli soldiers and lost one of their own fighters in border clashes on Tuesday, a day after the group accused Israel of killing a top Hizbollah member.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan(Reuters) - Suspected Taliban fighters attacked a convoy carrying foreign construction workers Friday killing two Afghan government soldiers and an Afghan driver, officials said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed the governor of the Iraqi city of Mosul and two of his bodyguards on Wednesday as he was driving in a convoy of vehicles toward Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. marines died on Monday in guerrilla attacks west of Baghdad, the American military said on Tuesday.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Three people were killed and many injured on Friday in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying the governor of eastern Turkey's Van province, but the governor was unhurt, CNN Turk television reported.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Three U.S. transplant patients died after receiving organs from a donor who was infected with rabies, the first time the disease has been spread via transplanted organs, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Two suspected militants and a Saudi policeman were killed Wednesday during a shootout in eastern Riyadh, security sources and witnesses said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb blast killed three U.S. marines in Baghdad on Tuesday in the first reported fatal attack on U.S. forces in Iraq since the formal handover of sovereignty to an interim government.
URUZGAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. forces said they captured two Taliban leaders in southern Afghanistan at the weekend, while U.S. Marines moving across a mountainous central province killed three guerrilla commanders.
KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban took responsibility for a bomb attack on Saturday that killed at least two female election workers and a child in the eastern city of Jalalabad and also said they had freed a kidnapped Turkish engineer.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi security forces killed three suspected militants in the Saudi capital Riyadh Friday, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier died of wounds sustained during a rocket attack on a military base north of Baghdad on Wednesday, bringing the number of American troops killed in the strike to three, the U.S. military said.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel's military killed three militants, including a local leader, in a missile attack on a car in the West Bank city of Nablus Monday, Palestinian security sources said.
NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - Three members of the U.S. military were killed in a car crash on the outskirts of Naples on Saturday, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Seven Turkish hostages seized in Iraq this week were freed on Saturday, but a Lebanese and two Iraqi hostages abducted in a separate incident were killed, diplomats said.
KARACHI (Reuters) - Attackers sprayed an army jeep and a police van with gunfire and then set off a bomb in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Thursday, killing two policemen and a civilian and wounding nine people, police and doctors said.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Two missiles fired by an Israeli helicopter killed a high-profile Hamas militant commander on his motorcycle and two comrades in Gaza City early on Sunday, Palestinian witnesses said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. Marines were killed in action on Wednesday in the volatile al-Anbar province west of Baghdad, the American military said on Thursday.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Heavy fighting between rival factions of Congo's army raged throughout the volatile eastern border town of Bukavu Thursday as U.N. troops and local officials struggled to contain the violence. Lapierre said by phone from the lakeside town that at least two soldiers and a civilian judge had been killed and a foreign aid worker had been hit in the leg by a stray bullet.
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Three people were feared killed and five people were wounded in an explosion at the port of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi Tuesday, an Interior Ministry official said.
SEOUL (Reuters) - The bodies of three South Korean climbers have been found after they went missing early this week during a descent of Mount Everest, a university official said.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - One U.S. soldier and two Iraqi civilians were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in the Baghdad area, the U.S. military said Friday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Severe weekend storms, including tornadoes, large hail and flash floods across the U.S. northern plains and Midwest have killed at least three people and left thousands without telephone service or power, officials said on Saturday.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Three people were killed in a Colombian town on Saturday by a car bomb which the army blamed on Marxist rebels marking the 40th anniversary of their armed struggle.
TANI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Three Afghan civilians were killed and two wounded in a pre-dawn swoop by U.S. helicopter gunships in Afghanistan's southeastern province of Khost on Friday, angry villagers said.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) - Three people were killed and two others wounded in a gunfight at a polling station in the Dominican Republic on Sunday as the country held a presidential election that is expected to oust President Hipolito Mejia.
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a crowded market in a Kurdish neighborhood of the northern Iraq oil city Kirkuk on Tuesday, killing three people and wounding around 22, Iraqi police said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Two Westerners and their Afghan translator have been killed in a suspected Islamic militant attack in eastern Afghanistan, an official said on Wednesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in the Iraqi town of Diwaniya during clashes with the militia loyal to wanted Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the U.S. military said in a statement Wednesday.
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. troops and their Afghan security force allies mistakenly clashed in Afghanistan's eastern Paktia province, killing three Afghans and wounding two, a provincial security official said Sunday.
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A powerful car bomb killed three Chinese men in Pakistan's southern port city of Gawadar on Monday, police and military sources said.
ROME (Reuters) - A fire swept through a luxury Rome hotel on Saturday, killing a Canadian couple and an American, and forcing U.S. Open champion Andy Roddick and other tennis stars to flee, police and tennis tour officials said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition force in Iraq died on Wednesday, one killed in action and two of wounds sustained in attacks, U.S. military spokesman Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb which ripped through his Humvee in Baghdad on Sunday and at least two civilians died in shooting afterwards, a U.S. spokesman and hospital officials said.
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three Palestinians, including a teenager, in the West Bank on Saturday in disputed circumstances.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants in a West Bank raid on Friday, the army said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinians in confrontations with hundreds of stone-throwers in the Gaza Strip Tuesday, Palestinian medics said.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - Two Americans and a Jordanian were shot dead in Kosovo Saturday when emotions over Iraq apparently boiled over into a gunbattle between members of the U.N. law enforcement mission.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead three armed Palestinian militants who slipped into a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip before dawn on Monday to carry out an attack, an army spokeswoman said.
TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish troops killed three Kurdish militants and arrested one in a four-day military operation in southeast Turkey, a military source said on Sunday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three Palestinians outside a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, medical officials said Monday.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Armed men killed three soldiers and injured five more in Senegal on Thursday in the latest outbreak of violence in the troubled Casamance region, the West African country's army said on Friday.
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Three men trying to plant a bomb outside local government offices in northern Iraq were killed when it exploded prematurely, the mayor of Hawija and police said on Friday.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - A "desperate" out-of-work miner blew himself up inside Bolivia's Congress on Tuesday, killing himself and two policemen, government officials said.
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Attackers fired a rocket into a Pakistani military camp in a remote tribal area near the Afghan border Tuesday, killing three soldiers, officials said.
PARIS (Reuters) - Three people were killed and two injured when a small plane crashed in a mountainous area in southeastern France, local officials said Friday.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - A missionary couple from the United States and a Ugandan boy were shot dead on Thursday night by gunmen at an evangelical mission college in northwestern Uganda, college officials said on Friday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Americans -- in Iraq under the auspices of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board -- were killed in Mosul on Monday, according to a report on the board's Web site.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying employees of a U.S.-funded Iraqi television station northeast of Baghdad on Thursday, killing three and wounding eight, company officials said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip shot dead three Palestinians planting mines near the border with Israel Sunday, the army said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen posing as Iraqi police shot dead two U.S. civilians and their translator on a road south of Baghdad, officials said Wednesday, in the latest attack targeting foreigners.
LONDON (Reuters) - Three Iraqi insurgents were shot dead in a firefight with British forces on Friday that wounded seven soldiers, Britain's defense ministry said on Saturday.
BAKU (Reuters) - A cargo plane crashed on take-off from the Azeri capital Baku Thursday, killing three of the seven crew, the Caucasus republic's state air company said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A rocket slammed into a Baghdad street near a telephone exchange on Thursday, killing at least three people, Iraqi police at the scene said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed three Hamas militants in an air strike that tore apart their car near a Jewish settlement in the central Gaza Strip Wednesday.
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GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli army killed three Palestinian militants in a helicopter missile strike in Gaza City on Saturday and wounded 15 bystanders, witnesses said.
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Three Iraqis working for the U.S. military were killed by guerrillas who opened fire on their car, hospital officials said Tuesday, in the latest deadly attack on Iraqis cooperating with occupying forces.
EREZ, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Two Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli Thursday at an industrial zone on the Gaza Strip border that is a rare example of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation amid conflict. The gunmen were shot dead by Israeli security personnel.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian Air Force MiG-21 fighter jet crashed into a village in the western state of Gujarat Friday, killing three people on the ground and injuring 15 others, authorities said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed in roadside bomb blasts in Iraq Monday and at least one child died in a grenade explosion near a school, the U.S. military and Iraqi police said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least three U.S. soldiers were killed and one wounded when a roadside bomb exploded west of the Iraqi capital Tuesday, the U.S. military said.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Guerrillas in a passing car fired AK-47 assault rifles and tossed a grenade at a police checkpoint near the Iraqi town of Falluja Thursday, killing two policemen and wounding five, police at the scene said. They said a motorist driving a black Mercedes was also killed in the attack. Police initially said three of their colleagues were killed but later clarified the death toll, saying there had been confusion over the identities of the victims.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops killed two Yemenis and a Syrian who opened fire on them on Monday during a raid on a house in Baghdad, police at the scene said.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon resumed executions on Saturday after a five-year pause, putting to death three convicted killers despite objections by human rights groups and the European Union.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinians during a sweep for militants in the West Bank Wednesday, drawing angry funeral chants aimed not just at Israel but also Palestinian leaders accused of failure.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents have killed three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Iraq, the American military said Saturday, and a top commander warned that guerrilla assaults were growing more sophisticated.
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MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces said they killed three suspected members of a group linked to al Qaeda in a gunbattle in Iraq, and U.S. allies Thailand and Bulgaria vowed their soldiers would stay despite suffering a deadly attack.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - At least three people were killed when a strong earthquake measuring 6.5 struck the central California coast on Monday morning, collapsing buildings in one town and swaying high-rise buildings from San Francisco to Los Angeles hundreds of miles away.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were killed in Baghdad, but Washington pressed Asia to join an international drive to reduce Iraq's debt and officials hoped to restart a key oil export pipeline soon.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Spain's Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar surprised Spanish troops in Iraq with a visit on Saturday as U.S. troops killed three Iraqi policemen in a shooting likely to fuel anti-American anger.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces killed three attackers and thousands of soldiers swooped on a town in a major crackdown on Wednesday as violence and instability gripped Iraq in the wake of Saddam Hussein's capture.
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - An Israeli gangland bombing that initially raised fears of a Palestinian suicide attack killed three people and wounded more than 19 others on Thursday at a money-changer's shop on a busy Tel Aviv street.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including a teenager and two armed men, Palestinian medics and an Israeli military source said on Saturday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Three people, including a principal shareholder in the French supermarket giant Carrefour, were killed in a plane crash near Oxford on Saturday when the light aircraft attempted to land, police and sources said.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli military officials said soldiers had killed three Palestinian militants as they fled in a car after failing to carry out an attack in the Gaza Strip late on Wednesday.
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were shot in their car in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Sunday and their bodies mutilated and looted by a crowd of Iraqis. Another soldier was killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad.
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Guerrillas mounted a series of attacks on U.S. troops in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, killing three Iraqis and wounding at least 12 people including five American soldiers.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb exploded outside a hotel used by Iranian pilgrims in the holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala in Iraq Monday, killing at least three people, Shi'ite officials said.
Three Killed in Nigerian Religious Clash // MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A number of students were feared killed and more than 30 injured in fighting between Muslims and Christians at a university in northeastern Nigeria, witnesses and local authorities said on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Roadside bombs killed three civilians and wounded three American soldiers in Iraq on Saturday, while a poll said most Iraqis regarded the U.S.-led forces as occupiers rather than liberators of their country.
GAZA (Reuters) - Gunmen killed three Israeli soldiers, two of them women, at a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip on Friday in a joint shooting and grenade attack by the two main Palestinian Islamic militant groups.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian gunman opened fire in a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip early on Friday, killing three Israelis and wounding several others, Israeli security sources said.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier and two civilians were killed after an American patrol was attacked in the flashpoint Iraqi town of Falluja Monday, the U.S. military and witnesses said.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Gunmen killed three Israeli soldiers in an ambush in the West Bank on Sunday as mounting violence prompted Israel to call up several hundred reservists to bolster its forces in the occupied territories.
GAZA (Reuters) - A roadside bomb ripped through a U.S. diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip Wednesday, killing three American security men in the first attack on U.S. officials in three years of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
US Seeks UN Support on Iraq; Three U.S. Soldiers Killed // UNITED NATIONS/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States circulated a new U.N. draft resolution to gain support for its Iraq policy, but faced a worsening row with Baghdad on Monday over the deployment of Turkish troops in Iraq.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A 43-year-old woman opened fire in a church in Atlanta on Sunday, killing a pastor and her mother before turning the gun on herself, police and witnesses said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas killed three American soldiers in a wave of attacks in Iraq, the U.S. Army said on Thursday, adding urgency to efforts by Washington to garner international help in stabilizing the volatile nation.
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KABUL (Reuters) - An American soldier died of wounds after fighting in eastern Afghanistan, the fourth U.S. fatality in just over a month in operations against Taliban and al Qaeda militants in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. Two U.S. soldiers were wounded and two opposing fighters were killed in the fighting on Monday near Shkin in Paktika province close to the Pakistan border, U.S. military spokesman Colonel Rodney Davis told reporters at Bagram air base north of Kabul.
AFGHANISTAN: A U.S. soldier was killed and two others were wounded Sept. 29 during a gun battle near a coalition forces base in Shkin in the southeastern Afghan province of Paktika, U.S. military officials said. Two suspected Taliban members also were reportedly killed. No other details were provided about the incident, except that the soldiers were not part of "Operation Mountain Viper."
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A Taiwanese cargo ship and an Indonesian ferry collided on Friday off the eastern coast of the island of Java, killing three people and injuring 11, officials said.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Iraq killed three people in the early hours of Tuesday after clashes with guerrillas near the flashpoint town of Falluja, west of the capital Baghdad, locals and hospital officials said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Attackers killed two American soldiers in a mortar attack and a third died from a roadside bomb blast in the latest strikes against U.S. occupation forces in Iraq, military officials said Sunday.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A time bomb concealed in a video recorder exploded in a crowded market in Indian Kashmir Sunday, killing at least three people and wounding 28 others, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed on Thursday in Saddam Hussein's heartland west of Baghdad, hours after President Bush said he did not expect a quick U.N. resolution on U.S. pleas for foreign help in Iraq.
NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) - Three people were killed and 34 injured in an explosion after a man, wielding a knife and cross bow and demanding back pay, took hostages in an office in the Japanese city of Nagoya on Tuesday and set the area alight.
MONTREAL (Reuters) - Days after pounding Bermuda, Hurricane Fabian claimed the lives of three men in the Atlantic Ocean after their motorized boat capsized in rough seas, Canadian rescue officials said on Monday.
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops ambushed and killed three Iraqi guerrillas laying explosive devices of a roadside northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Three children including a four-month-old baby were killed and another was critically wounded in a mass stabbing in the northern Australian city of Brisbane, police said on Wednesday.
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Two Muslim guerrillas and an Indian soldier were killed on Saturday in a 10-hour gun battle in Kashmir's main city, the latest in a series of violent incidents that have cast a shadow on a thaw in India-Pakistan ties.
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least three Afghan government troops were killed and a commander kidnapped when suspected Taliban guerrillas attacked checkpoints close to the Pakistan border, an official said on Friday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three Iraqi security guards were killed in a bomb explosion Sunday at the office of a senior cleric in the holy Shi'ite Muslim city of Najaf in central Iraq, a leading Shi'ite party said.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants inside a West Bank hospital on Friday, extending a new spiral of violence that has smashed a cease-fire vital to a U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli helicopters fired missiles into a car in Gaza City on Thursday, killing three people and critically wounding a prominent leader of the Palestinian Islamic militant group Hamas, witnesses and medics said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - An earthquake hit China's northern region of Inner Mongolia, toppling more than 7,900 homes, killing three people and injuring 1,000, officials said on Sunday.
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - A Danish soldier and two Iraqis were killed in southern Iraq in a gun battle between troops and a group of looters stealing power cables, a British army spokesman said on Sunday.
WARRI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities clamped a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the city of Warri on Saturday after some of the fiercest ethnic fighting since a March revolt that slashed oil output from one of the world's main exporters. At least three people, one a soldier, were killed and thousands fled as homes were torched. Fighting erupted late on Friday in the southern, Niger Delta town and raged on into Saturday. Dozens died in the March rebellion by ethnic Ijaws.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - At least three people were killed when a bomb ripped through a bus in northeastern India on Thursday, reports said, as the nation tightened security on the eve of its annual Independence Day celebrations.
MADRID (Reuters) - Three people were killed and more than 20 injured when an explosion demolished a building in the southern Spanish city of Seville, authorities said on Thursday.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine troops killed three gunmen in fighting Sunday in the south of the country while pursuing armed groups believed to be harbouring a top leader of the radical Jemaah Islamiah network, the military said.
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - A foreign security guard and two Iraqis were killed in a second day of violence in Basra on Sunday in which British troops fired warning shots as crowds attacked vehicles and blocked streets with burning tires.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - The militant Islamic group Hamas vowed to punish Israel over a West Bank raid Friday that killed two of its fighters and an Israeli soldier, but said it remained committed to a fragile month-old cease-fire.
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican troops fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a convoy of suspected drug traffickers early on Friday morning, killing three suspects and wounding six others in the border city of Nuevo Laredo.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers died in northern Iraq Thursday in the second fatal attack on troops from the 101st Airborne Division since they tracked down and killed Saddam Hussein's feared sons Uday and Qusay.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three American soldiers were killed Thursday when their convoy was hit by gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades in northern Iraq, a military spokeswoman said.
(AP) - The pro-American mayor of the western city of Hadithah was shot and killed driving through the town Wednesday in escalating violence in Iraq that also took the lives of a U.S. soldier in a supply convoy and an 8-year-old Iraqi in an attack on U.S. forces guarding a Baghdad bank.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Three members of a local council were killed and five wounded in an explosion in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Monday, a witness and a hospital doctor said.
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ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (Reuters) - Muslim rebels shot dead three villagers after being driven out of their stronghold in the southern Philippines in a major army offensive, the military said Sunday.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli army killed three Palestinians in a security clampdown Wednesday, and a diplomatic dispute flared with Belgium after a court revived a war crimes lawsuit against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
QALQILYA, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians, including an 8-year-old boy, and a Palestinian gunman killed an Israeli in violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Tuesday.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in the West Bank Wednesday and began demolishing the East Jerusalem homes of a militant cell behind a suicide bombing which killed seven people including five Americans.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - At least three Colombian government troops were killed and three wounded on Sunday when suspected leftist rebels detonated a fourth car bomb in less than a week, officials said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli helicopters fired missiles into a Palestinian orchard on Sunday, killing two teenagers, and two Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli in escalating violence following a major suicide bombing last week.
A man stabbed his ex-girlfriend, her husband and two daughters, killing the woman and one child before police found him in a motel room with his wrists slashed.
A gunman shot and killed three people in a business district Friday, then barricaded himself in a pawn shop and shot himself in the chest. Carl Knapp, 48, was hospitalized for the wound, which was not life-threatening.
The bodies of three men who had been shot were found in a vehicle along a highway in Kent, Washington, a Seattle suburb. Police do not know the men's identities or a possible motive for the slayings.
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CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The United States on Monday vowed to hunt down "any and all" of those responsible for the murder of three American missionaries in Yemen, which has been blamed on at least one suspected Islamic extremist.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi military said U.S. and British warplanes killed three people and wounded 16 on Thursday when they bombed civilian targets, including a mosque, in southern Iraq.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope John Paul and other religious leaders delivered Christmas messages urging peace, but the killing of three girls in a grenade attack at a Pakistani church signaled the world remained a troubled place.
JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Suspected militants killed three young women in their homes just days after posters appeared in India's Jammu and Kashmir state ordering women to wear a veil, police said Friday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip shot dead two Hamas Islamic militants trying to plant explosives and a Palestinian man tending to his songbirds in his backyard Monday, witnesses said.
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb ripped through Macedonia's consulate in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi on Thursday, killing at least three people, police said.
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - At least one gunman opened fire on a Caracas square packed with opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday, killing three people as strikers trying to force a change of government cut off the world's fifth-largest source of oil exports.
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SRINAGAR (Reuters) - Three school children were killed in Indian Kashmir on Tuesday when a bomb they were playing with exploded, police said.
GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian attempting a suicide car bombing against an Israeli army post was killed in the Gaza Strip Wednesday as militant groups vowed to avenge the deaths of two of their commanders in the West Bank. The explosion occurred hours after two Palestinian militant commanders were killed on Tuesday night in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, in what witnesses said was an Israeli missile strike. The army declined comment on the incident.
AMMAN (Reuters) - Three people were killed and scores injured in clashes in the southern Jordanian city of Maan after a major security sweep to round up Islamist activists ahead of a possible war in Iraq, witnesses and officials said.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed two people in an Israeli shopping mall attack on Monday that coincided with a parliamentary vote in which Ariel Sharon's minority government won a precarious lease on life.
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SUVA REKA, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - A Kosovo Albanian mayor and two bodyguards were shot dead Sunday, a day after the U.N.-run Yugoslav province held a peaceful municipal election, international and local officials said.
DODA/BATOTE, India (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim separatist militants disguised as policemen stormed a polling station in Indian Kashmir on Tuesday, killing two soldiers on the final day of a bloody election for a new state assembly. Security forces gunned down one militant who lay dead in a pool of blood and searched for the other gunmen who charged through the building, spraying bullets, before fleeing outside.
(AP) - Two Kuwaiti gunmen in a pickup truck attacked U.S. forces during war games Tuesday on an island in the Persian Gulf, killing one Marine and wounding another before they were shot to death by U.S. troops.
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KUWAIT (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, in remarks published on Tuesday, accused Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group of killing three Israeli soldiers captured nearly two years ago.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three people were shot and killed in an apparent double murder and suicide on Monday in a Times Square area office leased by a health insurance company, New York police said.
GAZA (Reuters) - An explosion ripped through a home in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing three brothers, one of them a Palestinian militant, hospital officials said.
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AL-JALIL, Lebanon (Reuters) - At least three people were killed and 14 wounded in clashes Wednesday between the Lebanese army and Palestinian fighters in a refugee camp in eastern Lebanon, witnesses said.
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Three people were gunned down in a hail of bullets in Mexico's northern industrial capital of Monterrey early on Tuesday, the latest killing in a growing wave of violence in this once tranquil city, authorities said.
DHAKA (Reuters) - At least three people were killed and 50 others injured as police clashed with a mob trying to gain access to a mosque in the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, on Thursday, police and witnesses said.
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine communists shot dead three policemen and wounded two in the latest rebel attack after the government announced a stepped-up war against Marxist guerrillas, police said on Thursday.
JHIKA GALI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Three men suspected of attacking a Christian school in Pakistan this week, killing six people, blew themselves up on Tuesday when they were challenged by police, a police official said.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops backed by more than 100 tanks poured into the center of the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, killing three Palestinians as Israel struck back for a deadly bombing in Jerusalem.
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Suspected separatist guerrillas have shot dead three members of disputed Kashmir's ruling party, police said on Friday, on the eve of a visit to South Asia by Secretary of State Colin Powell.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian gunmen near the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, Israeli military sources said.
JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Indian security forces killed three suspected Islamic militants during the siege of a mosque in disputed Kashmir on Thursday, police said.
SIDON, Lebanon (Reuters) - Three Lebanese security officers were shot dead Thursday during a raid on the home of a member of a Palestinian Islamist group in the southern port city of Sidon, security sources said.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The man who opened fire at an El Al ticket desk at Los Angeles airport on Thursday, killing two people before being overpowered and shot to death, was a 41-year-old Egyptian native, CNN reported, citing FBI sources.
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JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Indian troops shot dead three infiltrators who tried to cross into Indian Kashmir from Pakistan, a defense official said on Saturday.
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli tanks fired on a fruit and vegetable market in the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday, killing three Palestinians who mistakenly thought a curfew had been lifted, witnesses said.
FREELAND, Wash. (Reuters) - A Washington state man accused of molesting his fiancee's six-year-old daughter shot and killed the woman and her mother on Thursday and wounded two others before turning the gun on himself, police said.
JAMMU, India/MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Three people were killed when Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged heavy fire along their tense frontier after a recent lull, officials on the two sides said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Defense Department on Thursday released the identities of three U.S. troops, one a woman, killed on Wednesday in the crash of an American special operations aircraft in southeast Afghanistan.
CONCEPTION, Mo. (Reuters) - A 71-year-old gunman armed with an assault rifle shattered the silence of a Benedictine monastery in Missouri on Monday, killing two monks and wounding two more before turning the weapon on himself, police said.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen killed a man, his pregnant wife and a third Israeli in an attack on a Jewish settlement, and Israeli forces launched new West Bank raids on Saturday, undermining intensified U.S. peace efforts.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - An employee opened fire at a newspaper's production plant Saturday, killing one worker and wounding another, authorities said. Two men were later found dead in a nearby suburb, and police believe one was the gunman.
BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) - A raid on a compound mistakenly identified as an al-Qaida and Taliban hide-out went awry when U.S. troops killed three of their Afghan allies who had occupied the area before the Americans moved in, an army spokesman said.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) - Torrential rains have pounded Central America for several days, killing at least three people and forcing the evacuation of thousands of people from their flooded homes, authorities said on Thursday.
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. special forces opened fire on a group of armed men in Afghanistan on Friday, killing three, and defended the action by saying the band had looked "hostile."
Of the four people involved in the Mount Rainier accident, only one climber was believed to have survived, an unidentified man from Germany, said Lee Taylor, a spokeswoman for Mount Rainier National Park. All four climbers fell on Tuesday during a desperate attempt to get off the mountain.
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - A military helicopter taking rescuers to an icy crevasse on Oregon's snow-capped Mount Hood, where three climbers died and six were injured, crashed into the mountain on Thursday, and tumbled down a glacier.
(Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up and wrecked an outdoor cafe in a town near Tel Aviv, killing two people and wounding 44 in a hail of glass shards and metal, police and medical workers said. The Monday night blast tore through the cafe and a nearby ice-cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva, about six miles east of Tel Aviv.
RISHON LETZION, Israel (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber struck in an Israeli public garden full of chess and backgammon players, killing two others and wounding 27, hours after Israeli missiles blasted a top Palestinian militant.
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Three Pakistani villagers were killed when Pakistani and Indian troops traded fire across their tense border in the disputed region of Kashmir for a forth consecutive day Monday, a Pakistani official said.
MOUNT EPHRAIM, N.J. (Reuters) - A speeding car crashed through a 24-hour McDonald's near Philadelphia and burst into flames, killing three employees inside early on Wednesday morning, police said.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers mistakenly killed a Palestinian woman and two children Sunday when they opened fire after a roadside bomb hit their armored vehicle near the West Bank city of Jenin, a military source said.
Motorcyclists fuel up at a station in Laughlin, Nev., Sunday, April 28, 2002, where a shooting at a casino between rival motorcycle gangs killed three and wounded more than a dozen persons Saturday.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Political violence erupted on Thursday in the central Nigerian town of Jos, where hundreds died in sectarian riots last year, and a number of people were reported killed, residents said. Ezekiel Gomos, government secretary in the state of Plateau of which Jos is capital, said he could not confirm reports by residents that at least three people had been killed.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim rebels killed three people and injured almost 100 in the Philippines on Wednesday when they hurled a grenade into a crowd of villagers celebrating the festival of a local patron saint, officials said.
HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Hooded gunmen shot dead three fellow-Palestinians for collaborating with Israel on Tuesday, taking swift vengeance on them for an Israeli missile strike that killed two Palestinian militants.
NEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Three people were burned to death Tuesday in renewed religious fighting in India's western state of Gujarat, as the federal government braced for a parliament vote on its handling of the riots.
PLACENTIA, Calif. (Reuters) - Three people were killed and nearly 300 others were injured when a freight train slammed into a Metrolink commuter train south of Los Angeles on Tuesday in an accident that crumpled one passenger car and sent people flying out of their seats, officials said.
MILAN, Italy (Reuters) - A small tourist plane smashed into Milan's tallest skyscraper Thursday, killing at least three people and injuring scores in what Italian officials said was clearly an accident, not a rerun of Sept. 11.
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippine troops, backed by rocket-firing helicopters, killed three Muslim guerrillas on Tuesday in a stepped-up offensive against a group linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, the military said.
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FORT IRWIN, Calif. - A mortar round fired from an armored vehicle exploded prematurely during a training exercise Friday, killing three soldiers, military officials said.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian gunman shot dead three Israelis on Thursday after infiltrating a Jewish settlement near the West Bank city of Nablus, the Israeli army said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian gunmen who tried to infiltrate a kibbutz in southern Israel overnight, the army said Wednesday. In Nablus, a Palestinian was killed apparently while preparing a bomb in his apartment in a refugee camp on the outskirts of the West Bank city.
(AP) - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a main downtown Jerusalem shopping area Thursday, killing himself and two bystanders.
WARRI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least three people were killed in a clash between students and party supporters at a rally on a campus in southwestern Nigeria, witnesses said on Thursday.
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GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian militant killed a Jewish settler and two other Israelis in an ambush on Monday, hurling grenades and opening fire at a convoy on a Gaza Strip settlement road, Israeli security sources and officials said.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Three children died in a fire Tuesday despite rescue efforts by members of a television crew that had been filming nearby and rushed in with buckets and garden hoses.
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STANTON, Calif. (AP) -- A knife-wielding man allegedly killed his girlfriend and her two daughters then threatened sheriff's deputies who shot him with a beanbag weapon, authorities said. The 27-year-old man, who was not immediately identified, was taken into custody about 12:30 a.m. Thursday by Orange County sheriff's deputies in Stanton. The man was carrying a knife and came toward deputies, said sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino. The man allegedly threatened the deputies, who fired at least two bean bag shots at him.
CORONA, Calif. (AP) -- A Los Angeles police officer, her husband and daughter were found shot to death in a Riverside County home in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said. The body of Officer Nancy Walden, 45, was discovered about noon Monday in her home, authorities said. The names of her 51-year-old husband and her teen-age daughter also found in the house were not immediately released.
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) -- The bodies of three young children left alone in a Stockton home were discovered after the the single-story house went up in flames. The bodies of Javier Sanchez, 7, Annette Sanchez, 5, and Francis Sanchez, 3, were found after the flames were extinguished early Sunday. Preliminary reports indicated the children succumbed to smoke inhalation, officials said.
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STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) -- A man shot his father, the mother of his 7-month-old son and then shot and killed her mother in a deadly spree of violence on Christmas day.
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Two car bombs exploded outside police headquarters in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz on Friday, killing three people and wounding two dozen others, police said.
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Suspected Palestinian gunmen killed one Israeli and wounded another in the West Bank on Friday, and about 3,000 Palestinians marched in a funeral procession for two militants whose car was attacked by Israeli helicopters.
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JERUSALEM (AP) - Three Palestinian gunmen, including a local militia leader wanted by Israel, were killed Thursday in a West Bank car explosion that Palestinian officials blamed on Israel.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A school bus that crashed while returning from a high school band competition, killing three people and injuring more than 30, had veered off the road to avoid a swerving tour bus, students on board told police.
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(AP) - Israeli forces demolished several buildings in a Palestinian refugee camp early Thursday, triggering a fierce battle with local gunmen, the army said. Three Palestinians were killed and 22 wounded, doctors said.
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- A two-story hotel collapsed before dawn Wednesday, killing at least one person and leaving a woman and her daughter buried inside, rescue workers said. Some 30 hotel guests, still wearing pajamas after being jolted from their sleep, made their way to safety after the collapse of the Istanbul hotel. Rescue workers used sniffer dogs and sound detectors to pull out 14 others.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Three boys were killed and one was injured when they accidentally detonated a World War II mortar shell they found in southeastern Poland, police said Thursday.
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- Police searched Thursday for a gunman who killed three people and wounded two others at the home of his ex-girlfriend in a shooting rampage that sent shockwaves through a city deemed by the FBI as America's safest.
CHEMEHUEVI INDIAN RESERVATION, Calif. (AP) -- The deaths of three people have been tied to a 14-hour rave party that lasted into Sunday morning in the Mojave Desert. One person died from an apparent drug overdose at the ``Nocturnal Wonderland'' rave party, officials said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two of the three people killed in Saturday's marketplace explosion in rebel Chechnya were carrying a bomb which exploded before they had time to plant it, a local Interior Ministry official said Sunday.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The police officer charged with killing three family members while driving drunk apologized Monday and declared he is ``not the monster'' portrayed in the media. Officer Joseph Gray's news conference was disrupted by a community activist who bitterly denounced him and held up a sign saying: ``Jail, No Bail for Drunk Killer Cop.''
GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian activist and his two young children were killed when their house in the southern Gaza Strip was hit in fighting with Israel and each side blamed the other for the deaths on Monday.
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- A powerful bomb ripped through a crowded market in the province of Baluchistan Monday, killing three people and injuring 16 others, police said. The bomb, the second to rock Pakistan in as many days, was hidden in a bicycle parked in a crowded shopping area in Quetta, the Baluchistan provincial capital.
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(AP) - A Marine Corps helicopter on a training exercise crashed into the New River near the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps base, killing three Marines and injuring two others. The pilot and co-pilot of the CH-46 Sea Knight, which went down at about 11 p.m. Monday, were hospitalized in stable condition.
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JERUSALEM -- Two Israeli soldiers and a Palestinian bomber were killed in an explosion in the Gaza Strip on Friday when the troops were lured to a booby-trapped jeep by Palestinians pretending to be in distress, the army said. Elsewhere in Gaza, two Palestinian teens were critically wounded by Israeli fire.
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) -- A third person has died after being injected with a cortisone shot tainted by meningitis. Lola Wright, 82, of Walnut Creek died Thursday at John Muir Medical Center of bacterial meningitis. The death was linked to shots given at the Sierra SurgiCenter where 22 people received contaminated injections, said hospital nursing supervisor Chris Perez.
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- A van carrying 19 temporary workers to Philadelphia from a Delaware job site hit a gasoline truck on Monday, killing three people in the van and injuring 16, state police said.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Three firefighters battling a blaze at a hardware store were killed when an explosion left them buried beneath the rubble of the building's roof and brick facade.
Three dead Filipinos found as troops search for U.S. hostage ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippines' president promised a ``long and bloody war'' against Muslim insurgents who claim to have beheaded an American hostage -- an assertion questioned by the Filipino military.
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With three Ohio children having died of meningitis in the past two weeks, Dr. Blaise Congeni has been inundated with calls from doctors asking the same basic questions: Should children be vaccinated against the meningococcal disease? And, if so, at what age?
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DAHR AL-BEIDAR, Lebanon (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes killed at least three Syrian soldiers and wounded six others in an attack on a Syrian radar station in eastern Lebanon early Monday, security sources and witnesses said.
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SDEH HEMED, Israel (AP) -- A Palestinian suicide bomber on Wednesday detonated explosives near Jewish seminary students waiting for a ride to school, killing himself and two teen-agers and injuring four people. Bombs also were discovered and safely exploded in two other Israeli towns.
Saudis storm hijacked Russian plane, three die MEDINA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi troops stormed a hijacked Russian airliner and freed more than 100 passengers Friday after the hijackers threatened to blow up the plane, Saudi authorities said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Hackers invaded the Internet site of the Muslim militant group Hamas and configured it so that viewers were rerouted to a pornography Web site Tuesday after the fundamentalist organization claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed three Israelis.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Three French snowboarders died Monday, a day after rescuers dug them out of a heavy snowslide in the French Alps, police said. The three, aged between 20 and 25, all came from the Haute-Savoie region near the Swiss border where the accident took place.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A woman hurled her two young daughters over a ninth-floor ledge of the Los Angeles County Court building then jumped to her own death, authorities said.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Three more Palestinians, including a 14-year-old, died in clashes Wednesday as Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres said he has decided to run for prime minister in Israel's coming election.
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Two buildings collapsed in Cairo early Friday, leaving at least three people dead, three injured and seven more trapped under the debris, police said. Rescuers were digging through mounds of rubble looking for survivors.
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Palestinian gunmen traded heavy fire with Israeli soldiers in several West Bank towns Friday, after thousands of mourners buried a militia leader assassinated in what Israel said was a new policy of pre-emptive strikes. Three Palestinians were killed and an Israeli soldier was critically wounded.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Three people were killed and 104 injured when two commuter trains collided on Tuesday near Germiston, about 10 miles east of Johannesburg, police said. ``Two trains...collided late this afternoon. Three people have been confirmed dead and 104 injured,'' police spokeswoman Amanda Viljoen told Reuters.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Prosecutors and a lawyer for a sausage factory owner accused of killing three meat inspectors agreed to display grisly surveillance tapes of the June 21 shootings to the media Monday.
ROCK CREEK, British Columbia (Reuters) - A state lawmaker from Colorado was among three people killed when a small plane crashed in the mountains of south-central British Columbia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Friday.
TEHRAN, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Police killed three armed bandits in a shootout in southeastern Iran and arrested three others, seizing guns and ammunition, the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday.
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MERCED, Calif. (AP) -- A pitchfork-wielding intruder stabs and kills two children in a farmhouse. A teen-ager is accused of beheading his mother with a knife. In less than a month, Merced County -- a hot, dry farming region in the center of California -- has been jolted by two grisly crimes.
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POMONA, Calif. (AP) -- A Rancho Cucamonga man shot to death his estranged wife and a co-worker she apparently had been dating, then committed suicide, police said Thursday. Elvia Arreola, 39, was found dead outside the front yard of her Pomona home at about 6:30 a.m., according to police.
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- A fire at a Berkeley house is out, but three people died in the early morning blaze Sunday. A 21-year-old woman and her parents died this morning when the fire roared through the two-story home near the University of California, Berkeley campus.
SACRAMENTO (AP) -- A Litchfield, Minn., man and his two young daughters were killed when his semitrailer truck burst into flames after it rear-ended a flatbed truck near here, police said.
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LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - Two teenage boys found battered to death in a playground with a concrete bench. An elderly woman murdered in her own home with household tools. The unrelated weekend crimes in two quiet suburban neighborhoods outside Los Angeles were horrific enough in themselves. But on Tuesday police stunned both communities with the news that a 15-year-old boy and two teenage girls were being held in connection with the separate killings.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian farmer and two of his children died from radiation poisoning after the family unwittingly took a radioactive cylinder home, hoping the object was valuable, officials said Tuesday.
GILROY - Three people died this morning in a house fire that investigators are now calling suspicious. Gilroy Fire Department spokesman Dave Bozzo said the fire department received a call at 1:51 a.m. that a house located at 300 Second Street was on fire and people may be trapped inside.
ORTA, Turkey (AP) -- A strong earthquake shook a rural swath of central Turkey today, killing three people, injuring more than 80 others and toppling hundreds of mud-brick homes. The 5.9-magnitude quake hit at 5:40 a.m. local time and sent thousands of panicked residents running into the streets. It was followed by nine aftershocks, the strongest measuring 4.5.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- In the worst violence in four years, Israeli troops and Palestinian police fought fierce gun battles today, and three Palestinians were killed as protests swept across the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- A construction platform on a bridge at least 50 feet above the Illinois River fell today, plunging five workers into the water. Three were killed and a fourth was impaled by a pipe.
LUANDA, Angola (AP) -- Thirty people were killed and 17 others injured when a truck and a four-wheel-drive hit two anti-tank mines in northern Angola, news reports said Monday. The two vehicles were returning Sunday from a rural market close to Negage, in the province of Uige, when they came across the mines, which were laid four miles apart and ringed by dynamite, Catholic radio station Ecclesia said.
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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- A lawyer for Pakistan's deposed prime minister was shot and killed Friday inside his office, officials said. Iqbal Raad, one of the lawyers defending former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a hijacking case, was killed along with two other people by unidentified gunmen.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Firefighters responding to a house fire Wednesday were ambushed by a gunman who stepped out of the garage and opened fire, authorities said. Three people were killed and three others wounded.
VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) -- A woman who was distraught over marital problems may have deliberately lit a barbecue grill in her bedroom to kill herself and her two young sons, police say.
WELLBORN, Fla. (AP) -- Blinding smoke from a nearby forest fire caused a massive traffic pileup on a north Florida interstate Wednesday, killing three people and injuring 21 others, officials said.
WILKINSBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - The death toll from this week's bloody shooting rampage outside Pittsburgh rose to three on Friday as investigators spoke of a possible link between alleged gunman Ronald Taylor and a separate murder.
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Panama declared an epidemic alert and canceled traditional Lenten carnivals in a central pro- vince after the country's first outbreak of the deadly hantavirus killed 3 people.
Grave robbers executed in China. BEIJING (AP) China has executed 3 people for stealing 15 murals excavated from the tomb of an imperial concubine who lived 1,300 years ago. Only two of the murals, which were excavated from Wei Guifei's tomb in 1991, were recovered, "causing irredeemable losses to the nation." Wei was a Tang dynasty concubine.
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Vigil held for slain missionary - Father, two sons burnt alive in jeep by Hindu radical
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (AP) -- A smoky fire swept through a Seton Hall University dormitory early today, killing three people and injuring about 25 others. Screaming students in pajamas and hastily grabbed coats fled into bitter pre-dawn cold, with one leaping from a window.
Three days into the new year, Newark police tried to unravel a violent mystery Monday -- the apparent double-slaying-suicide of two female roommates and a teenage son. The three bodies were found at 7:30 p.m. Sunday inside a small, light-gray home in a neat, middle-income neighborhood. The deaths were Newark's first homicides since 1997. A 2-year-old girl was found unharmed in the home.
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Two passenger trains carrying 96 people collided in southern Norway today, killing at least three people and injuring several others, authorities said. At least one locomotive was overturned, and one of the passenger cars was on fire, witnesses said. The Norwegian news agency NTB said local police confirmed that at least three people had been killed, another was seriously injured and several others suffered lesser injuries.
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DENVER -- A tour bus carrying two church groups from Texas slid off an icy highway and rolled 200 feet down a embankment in Colorado late Tuesday, killing three people and injuring up to 50 others, police said.
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PIONEER, Calif. (AP) -- Three grandchildren of former U.S. Reps. Bob Mathias of California and Bill Alexander of Arkansas were killed, along with their father, in a house fire, Mathias said Wednesday.
SIPSEY, Ala. (AP) -- A man whose mother recently died of cancer opened fire outside a rural home, killing his father and sister before committing suicide. Those killed in Monday's shootings were Leon Wallace, 75, his 50-year-old daughter, Sandra Wallace Clifton, and the alleged gunman, Wallace's 45-year-old son, Terry, police said.
Three Americans slain in Baja crime wave // ROSARITO, Mexico (AP) -- The stretch of Baja California coastline between Playas de Tijuana and Ensenada is known as ``the Gold Coast'' because of weekend tourists and American retirees who have adopted the area as a second home.
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DILI, Indonesia (AP) -- Militiamen today clashed with supporters of independence for East Timor, leaving three people dead and many others wounded, days before a vote on the troubled territory's future.
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) -- Authorities have recovered the bodies of a Chicago businessman and one of his two young daughters from Lake Michigan, and now must figure out how they died during a sailing trip.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Ethiopia said Thursday its forces killed the commander of a rebel group in a clash near the country's border with Somalia. The Oromo Liberation Front leader, identified as Boreda Birru, was killed with two fellow rebels while fleeing fighting on Monday, the Ethiopian News Agency quoted a Defense Ministry statement as saying.
SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Sheriff's deputies found three people dead of gunshot wounds and two others critically wounded Tuesday night in a Laguna-area home between Sacramento and Elk Grove. An adult and a child were taken to the University of California, Davis with critical injuries, but no additional information was immediately available.
PELHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Three people were shot to death this morning at two companies, and a man who had worked at both was arrested. Police said the 34-year-old suspect was arrested after a brief scuffle when officers approached after forcing his car to a shoulder of Interstate 65 in nearby Chilton County.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) -- The Milwaukee Brewers postponed their game tonight in a gesture of respect to three workers who died when a huge crane collapsed while handling a portion of the roof for the team's new stadium.
FOREST FALLS, Calif. -- Three people were killed and dozens injured in the town of Forest Falls by mudslides triggered by rare summer thunderstorms in the mountains about 100 miles east of Los Angeles, local television reported Sunday.
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia -- Gunfire continued to rip through this provincial capital over the weekend, snatching three more lives and casting a spotlight on the challenges facing international peacekeepers as they struggle to rein in the violence in Kosovo.
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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) -- Police killed a man in a shootout early today after he apparently killed his three young children and then started shooting up the police station.
CELEBRATION, Fla. (AP) -- A rental vehicle was pulled from a pond with three bodies in it, apparently solving the question of what happened to three friends who disappeared while on vacation nine months ago.
CLOVERDALE, Calif. (AP) -- With tears streaming down their faces, members of a church group held hands and prayed on the edge of a highway following a crash that claimed three of their number.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- The execution of a reputed drug lord and two members of his gang in Trinidad today could lead to the executions of dozens of other convicts in Caribbean countries desperate to fight drug trafficking.
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BELGRADE, May 20 (Reuters) - NATO faced a fresh furore over mis-guided missiles on Thursday after Serb officials said an overnight strike on a Belgrade hospital had killed three people and injured two women in labour.
MOSCOW (AP) -- Three rescuers who went looking for four students missing in a cave in central Russia have been found dead, suffocating from the same bonfire smoke that killed the students.
CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) -- Three men were killed when their light plane crashed while trying to glide to a landing at the Cedar City airport. Ryan Wade Sanders, 50, and Glenn P. Davis, 43, both of Boulder, Colo., were believed to be headed to San Diego for vacation when they encountered harsh weather.
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THAMESVILLE, Ontario (Reuters) - A train carrying about 180 passengers and eight crew careened off the tracks in rural Ontario Friday, killing at least two people and injuring many others, according to police.
TOKYO (AP) -- A U.S. Marine helicopter crashed into the Pacific Ocean during training in southern Japan, killing at least three servicemen, the Marine Corps said today. The fourth serviceman aboard was missing.
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Rwandan rebels attacked two campgrounds in southwestern Uganda, killing three people and abducting 13 foreigners, officials said Monday. The Congo-based rebels attacked the Buhoma camping site on the northern edge of the Bwindi National Park, known as the Impenetrable Forest, late Sunday. The camp is the main starting point for seeing the 320 rare mountain gorillas that remain along the border mountain's slopes.
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BERLIN (AP) -- Three Kurdish protesters were shot and killed while trying to occupy the Israeli consulate today, a day after the arrest of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan sparked riots and demonstrations throughout Europe.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An angry investor bound and killed the owner of a Westlake area company and an employee at their place of business before killing himself, and a 5-year-old dispute led to the deaths, police said today.
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Three members of the Texas musical group Intocable were killed and six injured Sunday when the speeding vehicle they were riding in skidded off a highway and crashed.
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BRIDGEPORT, Ala. (AP) -- An explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak leveled two downtown buildings today, killing three people and critically injuring several others. Three other buildings were heavily damaged.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A single-engine plane lost a wing and crashed in the rugged Sandia Mountains, killing three men who were returning from a golfing trip. Snowfall this morning hampered efforts to recover the remains of the men in the Sandia Mountains, according to Rick Goodman, state search and rescue resource officer.
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- Fire blamed on a badly vented dryer swept through an unlicensed day care center, killing three children. Four other children were hospitalized Monday along with the center's operator, Anita Perkins, who was credited with saving three children before she collapsed. One child was in critical condition.
BEIJING (AP) -- Three people died and more than 500, many of them children and elderly people, were sickened in a mass poisoning from eating industrial grease packed in old pesticide barrels, state television reported Thursday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian cargo plane spewing flames smashed through a residential neighborhood of Fortaleza Wednesday killing three people and injuring eight, aviation authorities said. ``The plane, carrying cargo, was trying to land near the airport when it suddenly lost altitude and crashed,'' a spokesman for the Aeronautics Ministry said.
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Rabid bats have prompted a health alert in northern Mexico's scenic Copper Canyon where three people died from bat bites and eight others recently were attacked.
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TIRANA, Albania (AP) -- Supporters of former President Sali Berisha seized government buildings in the Albanian capital today and demanded the government resign. Government forces launched a counterattack hours later, killing three Berisha supporters and wounding 14.
PALO ALTO -- Three bodies were found Tuesday afternoon in a home on the 400 block of Ferne Avenue, sending ripples of shock through a south Palo Alto neighborhood. Palo Alto police spent most of the afternoon investigating the deaths of a man in his 40s, a woman in her 30s, and an adolescent boy, said police spokeswoman Tami Gage.