(11/06)

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - The death toll from flash floods sweeping through impoverished southeast Turkey has risen to 33 on news that 11 people, including seven children, have died in the town of Batman, officials said on Thursday.

(3/06)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - At least 23 Maoist rebels and 10 policemen were killed on Tuesday in escalating violence across Nepal following the end of a rebel-led road blockade, authorities said.

(10/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two Iraqi government officials were shot in Baghdad on Sunday, one day after a suicide bombing killed 30 people after luring them to a truck bomb disguised as date vendor's van.

(1/05)

KINSHASA (Reuters) - At least 30 civilians were killed in a massacre in eastern Congo believed to have been a reprisal for the killing of three renegade soldiers by a pro-government militia, the United Nations said Friday.

(12/04)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A gas explosion at a coal mine in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi killed 28 miners and five rescuers, the government said on Friday, in the latest in a grim series of similar disasters.

(10/04)

TABA, Egypt (Reuters) - Rescue workers began to lose hope of finding survivors in the rubble of an Egyptian Red Sea hotel on Saturday, almost 48 hours after three bombs aimed at Israeli tourists killed at least 33 people.

(6/04)

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Prisoners in Rio de Janeiro killed at least 33 fellow inmates and beheaded many of them in a gang turf war that marked the worst prison violence in years in Brazil's overcrowded penal system.

(5/04)

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli troops pushed further into the besieged Rafah refugee camp on Thursday despite international outrage at its killing of 33 Palestinians, many of them peaceful protestors, in the bloodiest Gaza raid in years.

BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - All 33 people aboard a Brazilian passenger plane were killed when it crashed in the Amazon jungle just minutes from landing at the industrial city of Manaus, aviation authorities said on Saturday.

(2/03)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A hotel fire killed 33 people in the northeast Chinese city of Harbin Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

(1/03)

BEIJING (Reuters) - At least 33 miners were missing after a gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northeastern China early Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

(11/02)

MANILA (Reuters) - At least 33 people were killed and six injured when a Philippine bus plunged into a ravine early Sunday after its driver apparently fell asleep at the wheel, officials said.

(9/02)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Thirty-three miners were killed when a gas explosion tore through a coal mine in the central Chinese province of Hunan on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported.

(7/02)

KIEV, Ukraine (Reuters) - A fire raced through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine Sunday, killing 33 miners trapped hundreds of meters underground in the latest of many mining tragedies to plague the ex-Soviet state.

(5/02)

JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Three suspected Pakistani Islamic militants opened fire on a bus, then attacked an army camp in Indian Kashmir Tuesday, killing 30 men, women and children before being shot dead, the Indian army said.