(7/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A string of bombs that killed at least 31 people in Baghdad on Thursday underlined warnings by U.S. and Iraqi officials that violence will not cease with the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq.

(6/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of bomb and mortar attacks killed at least 31 people in and near Baghdad on Saturday in violence that showed no sign of easing despite a security crackdown against al Qaeda in the Iraqi capital.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A string of bombs that killed at least 31 people in Baghdad on Thursday underlined warnings by U.S. and Iraqi officials that violence will not cease with the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq.

(10/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan government troops killed 31 insurgents in weekend fighting in southeastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Monday.

(9/05)

BENI SUEF, Egypt (Reuters) - A candle fell over and set fire to a crowded theater in the south Egyptian town of Beni Suef on Monday night, killing 31 people and seriously burning 16 others, police and hospital sources said on Tuesday.

(6/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi troops found and freed an Australian held hostage in Baghdad on Wednesday, the latest of several recent successes in recovering foreign captives. But two bomb attacks on Iraqi troops and police, including one in which a soldier may have blown himself up with nearly 30 other troops, showed insurgents remain a deadly force.

(5/05)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali troops killed 31 Maoist rebels who attacked a military base, while a top U.S. official on Tuesday urged King Gyanendra to restore civil liberties and respect human rights in the Himalayan nation.

(12/04)

HYDERABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 31 people were killed and 11 injured on Friday when a bus burst into flames after it collided with a truck carrying fuel in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, police said.

(11/04)

SOLO, Indonesia (Reuters) - At least 31 people were killed and many others injured when a jet carrying 153 passengers and crew crashed on landing on Tuesday in heavy rain in Indonesia's central Java.

(9/04)

JABALYA, Gaza (Reuters) - Twenty-eight Palestinians and three Israelis were killed Thursday, Gaza's bloodiest day in four years of conflict, as Israel's army struck back after a rocket attack killed two Israeli children at a border town.

(8/04)

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Rival groups of inmates battled with guns, grenades and machetes at a prison in El Salvador on Wednesday, killing at least 31 prisoners.

(5/04)

QAZVIN, Iran (Reuters) - Officials said Saturday at least 25 people had died in Friday's earthquake in northern Iran and that six more, including provincial leaders, were killed when a helicopter crashed en route to the disaster scene.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli forces opened fire on a protest march in a besieged Gaza refugee camp on Wednesday, killing eight Palestinians and raising the death toll in Israel's heaviest raid in the Gaza Strip in years to 31.

(3/04)

PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - The death toll from two days of clashes between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs rose to 31 on Thursday as NATO beefed up its forces and vowed to stamp out ethnic violence.

(8/03)

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan forces clashed with Taliban fighters in the southern province of Zabul for a fifth consecutive day on Friday after reports of the deaths of another 30 militants, a local official said. The U.S. military also said a special forces soldier died of wounds sustained in an accident during overnight operations in Afghanistan's Dai Chopan district of Zabul province, where hundreds of Taliban are concentrated.

(3/02)

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed 31 Palestinians Tuesday in their biggest offensive in the West Bank and Gaza since Israel captured the territories in the 1967 Middle East war.

(8/01)

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- A former prisoner starved to death Tuesday, bringing to 31 the number of people who have died in a nine-month fast in protest of Turkey's new maximum-security prison system.

(7/01)

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Thirty-one people including militants and Hindu pilgrims trekking to a shrine were killed in separate incidents in Indian Kashmir, police said on Saturday. Militants exploded a bomb and then fired at police, pilgrims and porters at a camp on the route to the Amarnath mountain-cave shrine, police said.

(11/00)

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Flooding triggered by torrential downpours has killed at least 31 people in central Vietnam, officials said Monday. About 12 inches of rain fell on nine coastal provinces from Thursday through Sunday, causing the region's short rivers to swell, said Le Thanh Hai of the National Weather Forecast Center.

(5/00)

BOGOTA, (Reuters) - Fierce storms lashing southern Colombia have killed at least 31 people and left more than 108,000 homeless since the weekend, authorities said Thursday. The torrential rains have swollen rivers, washed away homes and triggered mudslides since Saturday in Narino and Putumayo provinces on the border with Ecuador, said Eduardo Gonzalez, head of the government's Disaster Relief Office.

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A passenger train in Kenya derailed early today, killing at least 31 people, the Defense Department said. Kenyan Red Cross workers at the derailment site said there could be as many as 100 people still trapped in the wreckage, Red Cross spokeswoman Nina Galbe said.

(10/98)

KIGALI, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Rwandan army troops have killed 31 Hutu rebels in clashes in northern Rwanda in the past week -- including a senior commander blamed for a series of recent clashes in the area, military officials said on Tuesday.