(12/06)

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's air force bombed Tamil Tigers in a key area in the island's east on Saturday, the military said, hours after a renegade group announced it overran rebel camps and killed at least 30 militants.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb in the Shi'ite city of Kufa in southern Iraq killed 30 people on Saturday, an Interior Ministry source said.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Floods in Indonesia's Aceh and North Sumatra provinces have left at least 30 people dead and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes, Health Ministry official Rustam Pakaya said on Sunday.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Gunmen on horseback attacked a truck carrying medicine and aid in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region and killed around 30 civilians on board, some of whom were burned alive, the United Nations said on Sunday.

(11/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen rampaged through a Sunni enclave in a mainly Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Friday, killing up to 30 people and setting mosques and homes ablaze, police said, in a sharp escalation of sectarian violence.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Up to 30 villagers were killed and 40 wounded when armed men riding horses and camels attacked a village in the Darfur region of western Sudan, an African Union (AU) official said on Monday.

(10/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs killed at least 30 people in Iraq on Monday, including two near simultaneous blasts in a mixed area in Baghdad shortly before Muslims gathered at sunset to break their fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.

DIWANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi troops killed 30 Shi'ite militiamen in fierce street battles in the southern city of Diwaniya on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

(9/06)

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Insurgents killed at least 30 people and aggravated Iraq's hostile ethnic divide with a string of bombs in the northern city of Kirkuk, as well as attacks in volatile Anbar province and in Baghdad on Sunday.

(6/06)

HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb near a crowded market killed at least 30 people in Hilla, a mainly Shi'ite town south of Baghdad on Monday, police sources said.

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas have killed more than 30 people and abducted 10 in southern Afghanistan, a parliamentarian said on Monday, the latest attack in the bloodiest phase of violence in nearly five years.

(5/06)

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Overnight gang attacks on Brazilian police in Sao Paulo left 30 people dead by Saturday morning, and in a related occurrence the number of prison rebellions is growing in the worst outbreak of violence in the state in years.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs killed 30 people in Iraq on Sunday and wounded more than 70 in one of the bloodiest spasms of violence of recent weeks as political leaders sought a deal to form a national unity government.

(3/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb blast killed at least 30 Iraqis at a base near the northern city of Mosul on Monday, police said, keeping tensions high a day after the killing of 20 Shi'ites at a mosque compound in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Thirty bodies, most of them beheaded, were found on the main street of a village north of Baghdad on Sunday, stepping up pressure on divided Iraqi leaders to form a government they hope can avert sectarian civil war.

(2/06)

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani helicopter gunships and ground forces attacked a militant camp in North Waziristan on Wednesday killing around 30 people, according to a political agent for the tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

(1/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide attack inside Iraq's interior ministry compound by two bombers dressed as senior officers killed 28 people on Monday as the U.S. ambassador was watching a parade nearby celebrating national Police Day.

(12/05)

SANAA (Reuters) - Landslides in Yemen have destroyed a small village near the capital Sanaa, killing at least 30 people including women and children with dozens more missing, officials said on Thursday.

(11/05)

BEIJING (Reuters) - An explosion in a coal mine in China's northeastern province of Heilongjiang has killed 30 miners and trapped another 149, state media said on Monday.

CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - Flash floods swept a bus off a bridge in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Friday, drowning at least 30 passengers, including eight women and a child, police said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces pursuing a 10-day-old assault on al Qaeda militants have killed around 30 fighters in western Iraq, capturing some who tried to escape by crawling among a flock of sheep, the military said on Tuesday.

(10/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two bomb attacks killed nearly 30 Iraqis in the northern town of Tal Afar and in Baghdad on Tuesday, four days before a referendum on a draft constitution that has divided Iraq's main communities.

(9/05)

ABUJA (Reuters) - Militias backed by the Sudanese government have killed 30 people in fresh attacks in Darfur, threatening new peace talks under way in Nigeria, rebel groups said on Monday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb blew up in a market town east of Baghdad on Saturday, killing 30 people and wounding 38 at the end of one of the bloodiest weeks in and around the Iraqi capital since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.

(8/05)

ESCUINTLA, Guatemala (Reuters) - Rival Guatemalan gang members battled each other with grenades, guns and knives at prisons throughout the country on Monday, leaving at least 30 people dead.

(3/05)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A truck loaded with firecrackers blew up near a double-decker bus in eastern China Thursday killing about 30 people, the official Xinhua news agency quoted police as saying.

BEIJING (Reuters) - An explosion in a bus killed about 30 people in China's eastern province of Jiangxi on Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

(2/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents targeted Shi'ite Muslims in a series of suicide strikes and bombings across Baghdad Saturday, killing 30 people and wounding around 130 on the holiest day of the Shi'ite religious calendar.

(1/05)

KATHMANDU, Nepal (Reuters) - The Nepali army killed at least 30 Maoist rebels Wednesday in the biggest gunbattle between guerrillas and soldiers for six weeks, an army officer said.

(9/04)

TOKYO (Reuters) - A weakening Typhoon Songda lashed northern Japan with high winds and heavy rain on Wednesday after carving a trail of destruction in wide areas, with media reports saying 30 people had been killed and 19 were unaccounted for.

(8/04)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Between 21 and 35 right-wing paramilitaries were killed in combat with the Colombian army, and Marxist rebels killed the mayor of a small town, authorities said Saturday.

(7/04)

KIEV (Reuters) - A methane explosion ripped through a Ukrainian coal mine, killing more than 30 workers in the country's worst mining accident in two years, the Emergency Ministry said on Tuesday.

(4/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Open warfare between U.S.-led forces and radical Shi'ite militiamen left at least nine coalition troops and 21 Iraqis dead, officials said on Monday, raising the specter of a new front in the Iraq conflict.

(2/04)

KIFAL, Iraq (Reuters) - At least 30 bodies have been found in a mass grave outside the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, local people said on Saturday.

(11/03)

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Rebels in western Sudan accused the government Saturday of violating a truce with air strikes and militia raids that killed 30 people, mostly civilians.

(3/03)

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 30 villagers have been hacked or shot to death in communal fighting in central Nigeria that has cut off entire communities for days, local residents said on Wednesday.

(2/03)

LAGOS (Reuters) - More than 30 people died in a blast on Sunday that flattened three apartment blocks and tore open a bank in central Lagos which looters emptied of cash, officials said.

(11/02)

(AP) - At least 30 women and children were killed and hundreds injured in a stampede when thousands of poor people scrambled for clothes being handed out as charity in a northern Bangladesh town Sunday, police said.

(8/02)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The death toll from torrential rains and floods sweeping through Europe rose toward 30 Friday with scores missing and thousands stranded.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed and eight injured on Tuesday when a bus taking them on a religious a pilgrimage crashed on a highway in western Mexico, authorities said.

(7/02)

KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. plane bombed a village in the central Afghan province of Uruzgan Monday killing at least 30 members of a wedding party and injuring many more, Afghan officials and residents said.

(5/02)

NAIROBI (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed on Friday when Ethiopian army soldiers fired at demonstrators in a town south of the capital Addis Ababa, the BBC quoted sources in the town as saying.

(4/02)

(AP) - An earthquake shook northern Afghanistan on Friday morning, killing more than 30 people and injuring about 100 others, aid officials said.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli field commander said Sunday his troops had killed more than 30 armed Palestinians in fierce house-to-house fighting in the West Bank city of Nablus over the past 48 hours.

(5/01)

(Reuters) - Macedonia is to form an emergency national unity government on Sunday, a day after the army said it had killed some 30 ethnic Albanian guerrillas in a heavy bombardment of rebel-held villages and convoys.

(9/00)

LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- An overcrowded boat capsized Friday in a river in India's most populous state, drowning at least 30 people, police said. The boat overturned in the Pilakhar River near Pashpura village in northern Uttar Pradesh state, police spokesman O.P. Mani Tripathi said. The area is 105 miles east of India's capital, New Delhi.

(6/00)

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists in Scotland said Friday they were near to isolating a virulent bacterium that has caused the painful deaths of 30 heroin users in Britain and Ireland in the past six weeks.

(9/99)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A truck loaded with refugees fleeing the northern Afghan city of Taloqan skidded off a mountain road and plunged into a river, killing 30 people and injuring 35 others, an opposition spokesman said Tuesday.

(6/99)

About 30 North Korean sailors are believed dead and others injured, a U.S. defense official said today in Washington. Seven South Korean sailors were injured, none seriously, when their ships, a frigate and four patrol boats, were raked by northern fire.

(4/99)

DILI, East Timor (Reuters) - Loyalist Indonesians killed at least eight people in East Timor this week while fighting between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia's Molucca spice islands left at least 22 dead Friday.

(12/98)

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Yugoslav army troops killed at least 30 armed ethnic Albanians and wounded 12 others in border clashes today in Kosovo, the Serb-run Media Center reported. The Albanians' Kosovo Information Center also reported casualties from the early morning clash but did not immediately say how many were killed or injured. It said heavy detonations were heard from three villages that had been sealed off by police.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Neighbors watched helplessly as a pre-dawn fire tore through an aging orphanage in Manila today, killing at least 28 people, mostly children. Two other children were missing and presumed dead.