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(11/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 35 Iraqi police recruits on Sunday, the bloodiest such attack in weeks.


(8/06)

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded more than 120 on Thursday near one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites, the Imam Ali shrine in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf.


(5/06)

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Dozens were killed in a major attack by government-backed militias on Shearia town in Sudan's Darfur region, the latest in a wave of raids since a peace deal was signed earlier this month, rebels said on Saturday.


(1/06)

BEIJING (Reuters) - The death toll from a Lunar New Year explosion in China's central province of Henan rose to 36 on Monday, the official Xinhua news agency said.


(11/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded Baghdad restaurant frequented by the security forces at breakfast time on Thursday, killing 35 people and wounding 25 in an attack claimed by al Qaeda in Iraq.


(8/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police said on Thursday they have discovered the bodies of 36 people shot dead and dumped in a shallow river south of Baghdad.


(2/05)

SRINAGAR/JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Thirty-six people were killed and 63 others missing in avalanches in Indian Kashmir as the heaviest snowfall in nearly two decades brought the region to a standstill, authorities said on Sunday.


(7/04)

PAMUKOVA, Turkey (Reuters) - A packed express train traveling from Istanbul to Ankara derailed Thursday, killing 36 people in one of Turkey's worst ever rail disasters.


(6/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed 35 people at an Iraqi military base in Baghdad Thursday as guerrillas intensified a bloody campaign to sabotage plans for U.S.-led occupation to give way to Iraqi rule on June 30.


(4/04)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Homeless people picked through debris and sought food at emergency shelters on Thursday after a flash flood ravaged the northern Mexican town of Piedras Negras, leaving 36 dead and 19 missing.


(12/03)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - At least 36 people including six policemen were killed in Nepal in the past 24 hours in some of the deadliest clashes between troops and Maoist rebels.


(7/03)

MONROVIA, Liberia (Reuters) - Residents in Liberia's second city said Wednesday that fierce fighting between rebels and President Charles Taylor's forces had left dozens of bodies in the streets as West Africa inched closer to deploying troops.


(1/03)

CALCUTTA, India (Reuters) - A crowded bus collided head-on with a truck loaded with paints and chemicals and burst into flames in eastern India Tuesday, killing at least 36 people, authorities said.


(11/02)

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Ivory Coast army helicopters struck into rebel-held territory Wednesday and the rebels said dozens of people had been killed in the worst attacks since a truce was called nearly six weeks ago.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Tornadoes described by one witness as sounding like a thundering herd of buffalo struck the eastern United States Sunday and early Monday in storms that wiped out small towns, killed at least 36 people and injured many others.


(10/02)

(AP) - Special forces troops stormed a Moscow theater before sunrise Saturday, freeing hundreds of hostages held by Chechen rebels and killing their leader in a bloody end to the three-day standoff. Dozens of bodies were seen being removed from the theater. Survivors were loaded onto buses, many in shock or unconscious. Deputy Interior Minister Vladimir Vasilyev said that about three dozen of the estimated 50 hostage-takers had been killed, but that some apparently had managed to escape.


(5/02)

(AP) - A remote-controlled bomb shattered a holiday parade Thursday in a Russian town near Chechnya, killing at least 36 people, including children and members of a marching band that had just struck up the tune "Victory Day." Streams of blood trickled down the tree-lined road after the blast, which injured about 150. A mangled drum heaped with flowers lay next to a pile of abandoned horns and an empty boot.


(8/01)

(Reuters) - Thirty-six coal miners were killed Sunday and 14 were missing after a gas explosion at a mine in eastern Ukraine, the Emergencies Ministry said. The methane gas blast ripped through a shaft of the Zasyadko mine near the center of the city of Donetsk, a duty officer at the Emergencies Ministry told Reuters.


(2/00)

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The death toll from the worst flooding across southern Africa in nearly 50 years rose Monday as more rain deluged the region. South African police confirmed dozens had died thousands had been left homeless after nearly a week of constant rain.


(6/99)

WARRI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Troops patrolling the streets of the southern Nigerian oil industry hub of Warri said Tuesday that dozens of people had died in five days of ethnic clashes.


(5/99)

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The death toll stood at 36 today after fierce tornadoes destroyed entire neighborhoods in Oklahoma and Kansas. One monstrous twister chewed across miles of Tornado Alley for four hours.


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