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(10/06)

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Unknown gunmen killed at least 38 civilians in a string of attacks in southern Sudan, regional government officials said on Thursday.


(12/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein told his judges to "Go to hell" and threatened to stay away from his own trial after hearing more chilling, if at times barely coherent, evidence from witnesses on Tuesday. As the heavily fortified Baghdad court heard emotional testimony from witnesses hidden behind screens to protect their identities, two suicide bombers killed at least 36 officers and cadets at a policy academy across the city and violence linked to next week's parliamentary election killed four in Kurdistan.


(11/05)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A truck carrying toxic ammonia gas and a passenger bus collided in northwestern Mexico, killing 38 people, police said on Wednesday.


(6/05)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A land mine exploded under a packed bus in southern Nepal on Monday, killing 38 passengers and wounding 72 in one of the worst attacks on civilians since a Maoist rebellion erupted in 1996.


(4/05)

KINSHASA (Reuters) - United Nations troops killed up to 38 militia fighters during a raid by hundreds of peacekeepers backed by helicopter gunships in the Ituri district of eastern Congo on Saturday, a U.N. military source said.


(12/04)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian police were looking for two railway stationmasters blamed for a head-on collision between two passenger trains which killed at least 38 people and injured dozens, officials said on Wednesday.


(11/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Sunday 38 U.S. soldiers had died in the week-long offensive to recapture the Iraqi city of Falluja from rebels and 275 had been wounded.


(7/04)

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Extreme cold in Peru's high Andes has killed at least 38 children since the end of June as temperatures have plunged as low as minus 13 Fahrenheit (minus 25 C), government and U.N. officials said on Monday.


(6/04)

LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - A bus full of tin miners plunged over a 650-foot cliff in central Bolivia, killing at least 38 people, authorities said on Tuesday.


(5/04)

HANOI (Reuters) - Rescuers in Vietnam were searching Sunday for people missing since their boat sank off the country's southernmost tip while on a holiday outing as the death toll rose to 38, police said.


<10/03)

HANOI (Reuters) - Floods in central Vietnam have killed 38 people, submerged thousands of homes, washed away roads and damaged scores of ancient houses in a 16th century trading town, officials said on Monday.


(8/02)

KAMPALA, Uganda (Reuters) - Thirty-eight civilians were killed in Monday's rebel attack on a U.N. refugee camp whose 24,000 occupants fled when the rebels fired indiscriminately into terrified crowds, an army spokesman said Tuesday.


(3/02)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Thirty-eight Colombian troops and Marxist guerrillas died in heavy clashes in northern Colombia after a rebel column crossed over the border from neighboring Venezuela, Colombian authorities said on Thursday.


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