(9/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb killed 34 people in Baghdad's Sadr City Shi'ite slum on Saturday as Iraq's minority Sunnis began the fasting month of Ramadan, which U.S. commanders said might see a rise in sectarian bloodshed.

(5/06)

UTTARADIT, Thailand (Reuters) - Heavy monsoon rains unleashed flash floods and mudslides in northern Thailand which killed at least 34 people, left dozens missing and thousands homeless, officials said on Tuesday.

(3/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban attacked a military base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing a U.S. and a Canadian soldier and losing 32 of their own men, and declared a spring offensive had begun.

(2/06)

KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bombing and gunfire killed at least 29 minority Shi'ite Muslims in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday and gunmen killed at least four more people in an attack on a bus, officials said.

(11/05)

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's army, backed by U.N. peacekeepers, killed 32 militiamen during a two-day operation to free four local election officials kidnapped in the lawless east, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Two government soldiers died and another four were injured but no peacekeepers were hurt during the October 31-November 1 operation against Mai Mai gunmen in Congo's North Kivu province.

(9/05)

HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - A severe storm has ripped through southern India, killing at least 34 people and leaving 50,000 homeless, officials said on Tuesday.

(5/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities said on Sunday they had discovered the bodies of 34 people who had been killed execution-style then dumped in three locations.

(6/04)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Suspected leftist rebels killed 34 peasants in a jungle hamlet in Colombia on Tuesday, in the worst massacre since law-and-order President Alvaro Uribe took office nearly two years ago, officials said.

(4/04)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Thirty-four Chinese miners were killed Friday when an explosion ripped through a coal mine in the northern province of Shanxi, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

(9/03)

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - A passenger bus collided with a refrigerated cargo truck on a rain-soaked western Venezuela highway on Tuesday, killing 34 people and injuring 28, officials said.

(8/03)

AGARTALA, India (Reuters) - Militants fighting Indian rule in the remote northeast killed 34 people in bomb blasts and shootouts as the nation tightened security on the eve of Independence Day celebrations, officials said on Thursday.

(7/03)

LISBON (Reuters) - Europe baked in a heatwave on Wednesday that, along with forest fires fanned from the Balkans to the Atlantic, has killed at least 34 people.

(12/02)

ANGRA DOS REIS, Brazil (Reuters) - Hopes of finding survivors of mudslides which killed at least 34 people in a Brazilian seaside town near Rio de Janeiro were dwindling on Monday night as the rain continued, authorities said.

(11/02)

MANILA (Reuters) - A Fokker plane with 34 people aboard crashed into Manila Bay on Monday shortly after taking off for the northern Philippine city of Laoag, breaking in two upon impact, the Air Transport chief told Reuters.

(7/99)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Torrential rains flooded villages in northern Iran, killing 34 people and injuring more than 200, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported today. More than 5,000 homes, shops and government buildings were damaged or destroyed in the provinces of Neka, Behshahr and Sari, and thousands of acres of farmlands were inundated since the rain began Sunday, IRNA said. It said at least 30 villages were flooded.