(11/06)

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Hundreds of people may have been killed in the heaviest fighting between northern Sudanese forces and their former southern rebel foes since they signed a peace deal last year, a top southern officer said on Thursday.

(5/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban are gaining strength in parts of Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, after a week of the heaviest fighting in years was reported to have killed about 300 people.

(12/05)

EL-GENEINA, Sudan (Reuters) - Chad's army said on Monday its forces had killed about 300 rebels after they launched a failed offensive on a border town in one of the worst attacks in an escalating conflict.

(5/05)

LUANDA (Reuters) - Marburg fever has killed more than 300 people in Angola, mainly through exposure to the deadly virus at home and at funerals, but the situation is improving, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

(1/05)

BOMBAY (Reuters) - Rescue workers began at daybreak on Wednesday the grisly task of searching through debris from a stampede and fire that killed nearly 300 people at a temple in western India, and police said the toll could rise.

(8/04)

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. Marines said Friday they had killed 300 fighters loyal to a firebrand Iraqi Shi'ite cleric in fierce clashes that pose a stern test for an interim government struggling to stamp its authority over the country.

(2/04)

NISHAPUR, Iran (Reuters) - A runaway train laden with fuel and fertilizers plowed off the rails in northeastern Iran and blew up on Wednesday, killing about 300 people.

(4/02)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's king on Sunday appealed for peace and unity in a New Year message to his nation, three days after more than 300 people were believed killed in the increasingly bloody communist revolt to topple him.