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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. military personnel were killed and two were wounded in two separate incidents in Iraq on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Three moderate earthquakes struck Indonesia's Sumatra island on Monday, killing four people in one area and triggering landslides, officials said.
MANILA (Reuters) - Typhoon Utor swept out of the Philippines killing four people, including three children, and stranding thousands on Monday after high winds and waves tore up power lines and communication links in the archipelago.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A gunman shot four people, killing three of them, in law offices on one of the top floors of a downtown skyscraper on Friday and took a hostage before he was shot by a police sniper, authorities said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb close to west Baghdad's main Yarmouk hospital killed four people and wounded 40 on Tuesday, police and Interior Ministry sources said.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Three members of India's security forces and a villager were killed in a two-day gunbattle between troops and suspected Islamist militants in restive region of Kashmir, the army said on Sunday.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's security cabinet on Wednesday agreed to press on with military raids and "targeted killings" in the Gaza Strip but had not ordered a large-scale assault in response to a wave of Palestinian rocket attacks. As Israeli forces killed four Gazans in fresh fighting -- two militants and two civilians, according to Palestinian witnesses and medics -- a cabinet statement said the military had been told to prepare and present a plan for a broader sweep.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four more U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Thursday, bringing to at least 10 the number killed over the past two days in gun battles and roadside bomb blasts around the country.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Four people were killed and six wounded on Saturday during a police raid to end a two-day hostage crisis at a jail in the Mexican state of Michoacan.
LONDON (Reuters) - Four British soldiers were killed and three seriously wounded in an attack on a patrol boat in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday, the Ministry of Defense in London said.
BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - At least four pilgrims, including three elderly women, died and 18 were injured in a stampede at a crowded Hindu temple in the east Indian state of Orissa on Saturday, police said.
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed four Palestinian militants in Gaza on Friday, intensifying violence as the army pushes on with one of its biggest offensives in the strip in months.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Four Muslim guerrillas were killed and a soldier was wounded in fresh fighting in the southern Philippines, an army spokesmen said on Sunday.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A voracious brush fire, believed to have been arson, swept through the desert hills near Palm Springs on Thursday, killing four firefighters, sending residents fleeing and trapping hundreds more in a rural park for recreational vehicles.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The remnants of Hurricane Paul killed two people in northwestern Mexico on Thursday, authorities said, bringing the death toll to at least four from the storm -- now a dwindling tropical depression.
GAZA (Reuters) - At least four Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip on Monday in a shooting that residents blamed on Israeli forces but Palestinian security sources said may have been a gun battle between feuding local families.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber attacked NATO troops in southern Afghanistan on Monday killing three Afghan passers-by, while three people were wounded in a similar attack in Kabul, security officials said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and widened a four-month-old offensive on Wednesday by sending tanks to take up positions around the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, residents said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb targeting the convoy of a government official killed four bystanders in Baghdad on Sunday, the spokesman for the Interior Ministry said.
MIAMI (Reuters) - A man, a woman and two young children were found shot to death on Friday alongside the Florida Turnpike about 100 miles north of Miami, police said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three Palestinian gunmen and a bystander during a raid in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, pressing an almost 4-month offensive launched after a soldier was abducted, witnesses and medics said.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Four children were found dead in the Louisville, Kentucky, apartment of a Somalian immigrant who entered police headquarters on Friday and announced, "I killed my family," police said.
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A fourth man who took part in Tuesday's attack on the U.S. embassy in Damascus has died of his wounds, Syria's official news agency SANA said on Wednesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb followed by a roadside bomb killed four Iraqis and wounded 35 in northern Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday four U.S. servicemen had been killed in action in Iraq in the past 24 hours.
KABUL (Reuters) - Four foreign soldiers were killed in two separate clashes in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, the latest casualties among foreign forces in the rising violence by the Taliban.
OAXACA, Mexico (Reuters) - Gunmen fired on protesters and killed four people in just over 24 hours as a political crisis reached boiling point in the folklore rich state of Oaxaca, one of Mexico's main tourism centers.
KABUL (Reuters) - Three more NATO soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the latest in a series of attacks that killed a Canadian earlier in the day, the alliance said in a statement.
SONGKHLA, Thailand (Reuters) - Militants detonated a bomb by a bridge on the main railway line through Thailand's rebellious Muslim south on Wednesday, killing three policemen and leaving thousands of travelers stranded, officials said. A soldier also died in a booby trap left by militants at a temporary camp for engineering troops building a school in the region, where more than 1,300 people have been killed in a two-year Muslim separatist insurgency.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger rebels shelled a strategic harbor in eastern Sri Lanka on Tuesday and tried to sink a transporter ship with 850 troops aboard, the military said, killing four sailors as a low intensity war spiraled.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. Marines have been killed in action in Iraq's restive western Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A small plane chartered by a skydiving school crashed shortly after takeoff on Saturday in a rural area west of St. Louis, Missouri, killing four people on board and injuring four others, a local sheriff said.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Marxist rebels on Wednesday killed two Colombian soldiers and two workers trying to repair the country's second-biggest pipeline, which was shut down earlier this week after guerrilla attacks, army sources told Reuters.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike on Tuesday hit a U.N. base in southern Lebanon, killing four United Nations observers, Lebanese security sources said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A man in northeast China has killed himself and three others in a suicide bombing sparked by marital problems, local media said on Tuesday.
TOKYO (Reuters) - At least four people died and one is missing after torrential rain triggered floods and landslides on Japan's southern main island of Kyushu, local officials said on Sunday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian medics said Israeli shelling of a home in Gaza on Friday killed a Hamas militant and three civilians, as tanks and troops withdrew from a refugee camp following a three-day assault.
Hizbollah said it lost two of its fighters in the clashes, which occurred just inside Lebanon near where Hizbollah killed two Israeli soldiers on Wednesday.
JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Suspected Islamic militants shot dead four Hindus, including two women, in Indian Kashmir, police said on Thursday, following a series of grenade attacks in the violent Himalayan region this week.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian troops shot dead four suspected Muslim guerrillas on Sunday as they tried to cross into Indian Kashmir from Pakistan, the second infiltration attempt to be foiled in past three days, the army said.
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JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Sudan's security forces last week killed four members of a Ugandan rebel group which has been raiding parts of southern Sudan, a Sudanese official said.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Kidnappers killed four policemen in southern Mexico, gagging and shooting three and beheading another in the latest attack on officers ahead of next week's presidential election, officials said on Sunday.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A blast probably caused by an exploding gas canister at a popular Turkish tourist area killed four people, including a Norwegian and a Ukrainian, and injured about 25 on Sunday, CNN Turk television said.
PANIPITIYA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - A senior Sri Lankan general and two soldiers were killed on Monday in a huge explosion around 12 miles east of the Sri Lankan capital in a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide attack, police said.
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (Reuters) - Three prisoners and a visitor died on Tuesday when inmates armed with machine guns fought their way out of a jail in a violent Mexican city on the U.S. border, sparking a deadly gun battle.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Three U.S. students and their teacher are believed to have drowned in swollen seas off Costa Rica's Pacific coast, authorities said on Sunday.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Four members of a road building crew were found shot dead in southern Afghanistan on Sunday in an area where Taliban fighters have carried out similar killings in the past, a provincial official said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two bombs ripped through one of Baghdad's oldest and most popular street markets in quick succession on Friday, killing at least four people and wounding 50, police sources and witnesses said.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - At least four people died in an explosion at a chemicals and explosives plant 25 kilometers (16 miles) west of the Serbian capital Belgrade on Monday, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded near a market in Baghdad on Friday and at least four people were killed, Ministry of Interior sources said.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed four police in a claymore fragmentation mine ambush in Sri Lanka's restive east on Thursday, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks on the military.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a restaurant in central Baghdad on Sunday, killing four people in the third blast to hit the Iraqi capital a day after the formation of a national unity government.
GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed four Palestinians, including a top Islamic Jihad militant, on Saturday, prompting calls of revenge by the armed group to continue targeting Israel in rocket attacks.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eight explosions tore through the Ethiopian capital on Friday, killing four people and injuring at least 43 in the latest of a series of mysterious blasts to strike Addis Ababa this year.
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least four policemen were killed and six others wounded on Thursday in five explosions at a police training school in the Pakistani city of Quetta, police said.
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Around 150 armed men on horseback attacked a village in eastern Chad on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding six, two days before a presidential election, the U.N. refugee agency said.
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BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least four Iraqi policemen and a civilian were killed in a series of attacks on police checkpoints in 40 miles north of Baghdad on Thursday, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers on combat patrol south of Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said in a statement.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead Guyana's agriculture minister, two siblings and a security guard on Saturday in the latest in a string of violent attacks that have shaken the South American former British colony.
KABUL (Reuters) - Four Canadian soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan on Saturday when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb, a Canadian military spokesman said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded near a mosque in Baghdad on Sunday, killing four people and wounding seven, police said.
ATHENS (Reuters) - An Intercity passenger train collided with a truck in northern Greece late on Sunday, killing at least four passengers and injuring dozens, the fire brigade said.
MADRID (Reuters) - Four people, two of them boy scouts, were killed when a bus returning from a holiday camp overturned near the northern Spanish city of Oviedo late on Sunday, the Civil Guard police said.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's army said on Saturday Tamil Tiger rebels had killed four soldiers and wounded five in a claymore fragmentation mine attack on an army bus.
BANGALORE, India (Reuters) - Police opened fire in India's technology hub on Thursday, killing four people as tens of thousands of fans mourning the death of a film icon torched vehicles and attacked company offices.
MEDAN, Indonesia (Reuters) - Four Indonesian policemen died on Wednesday when an explosive device accidentally blew up during a bomb-disposal training exercise, police said.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A Taliban insurgent shot dead four Afghan policemen as they slept after pretending to be a traveler looking for a place to spend the night, police said on Sunday.
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GAZA (Reuters) - A car explosion near a Gaza mosque killed a top Palestinian militant on Friday, triggering gun battles in which three others died after fighters accused Palestinian security chiefs of collaborating with Israel.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Rebels blasted an Iraqi police station with grenade and mortar fire before dawn on Wednesday, killing four policemen in Madaen, south of Baghdad, police said.
LONDON (Reuters) - A British horror film fanatic who wanted to be an infamous serial killer was found guilty on Thursday of murdering four strangers during a three-day rampage through southern England.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian police shot dead four suspected militants overnight in the western state of Gujarat, the scene of bloody Hindu-Muslim violence in 2002.
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A Taliban spokesman said on Monday four foreigners kidnapped in Afghanistan had been executed on the orders of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
ASADABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed on Sunday after a blast ripped through their armoured vehicle in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four people were killed and 15 wounded when two bombs exploded near a Sunni mosque in mainly Shi'ite eastern Baghdad on Monday, police said.
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - A small plane carrying at least four passengers, three of them German, crashed in mountainous northern Iraq on Thursday en route to Iraq from Azerbaijan, U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Friday.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed on Monday when their vehicle hit a suspected bomb in central Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Roadside bombs have killed four U.S. marines in Iraq in the past two days, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan police shot dead four people protesting on Tuesday against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that have unleashed waves of rage and soul-searching across the Muslim world and Europe.
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan police opened fire on a mob trying to storm a NATO peacekeeping base housing Norwegian troops on Tuesday, killing four people and wounding 18 as protests over cartoons depicting Islam's Prophet Mohammad flared again.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian stabbed to death a woman and wounded five other passengers on a minibus in Israel on Sunday hours after an Israeli helicopter gunship killed three militants in the Gaza Strip.
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KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Two car bombs targeting churches in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed at least four people on Sunday, a police official said.
ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - At least four people died in a shootout between Mexican police and drug hitmen on the streets of Acapulco on Friday, in the latest drug violence to hit the Pacific beach resort.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian rebels planted landmines that killed four peasants, including a child, earlier this month in a farming community near a coca eradication project, Vice President Francisco Santos said on Friday.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's president urged his supporters on Wednesday to end a wave of attacks on U.N. peacekeepers in which at least four people were killed, after a lightning peace mission by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
RAHINAWA, Iraq (Reuters) - Security forces in Iraq shot dead four people protesting against a recent hike in fuel prices on Sunday, police said, after rioters set cars and petrol stations on fire near the northern oil city of Kirkuk.
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - At least four people died when a four-story building collapsed in the Muslim holy city of Mecca on Thursday as huge crowds gathered for the annual haj pilgrimage.
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TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up when Israeli troops tried to search him at a roadblock in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, killing an Israeli soldier and two other Palestinians.
TOKYO (Reuters) - An express train running behind schedule in blustery winter weather derailed in northern Japan, killing four people and injuring 32, police said on Monday, and it was unclear if others remained trapped in the wreckage.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed when their patrol struck a makeshift bomb northwest of Baghdad on Tuesday, the military said in a statement.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel launched two air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing four Palestinian militants in the latest of a series of military attacks since a suicide bombing in the Jewish state last week.
DAMIETTA, Egypt (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets in election clashes that killed at least four people in Egypt on Wednesday, and the Islamist opposition said it won nine new seats despite police actions to prevent voting.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded near a passing U.S. military patrol in Baghdad on Saturday, killing four passersby and wounding four others, Iraq's Interior Ministry said, but the U.S. patrol escaped unharmed.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car-bomber attacked a military convoy including U.S. troops in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Wednesday, killing three Afghan civilians, witnesses and a senior official said.
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine soldiers killed four suspected members of a Muslim militant group linked with al Qaeda in an operation to flush out militants from the remote southwestern island of Jolo, an army general said on Monday.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Four schoolboys were killed and another was wounded in an explosion in northern Thailand after one of them accidentally set off a bomb they found on a roadside, police said on Thursday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms shot dead an aging Sunni tribal leader and three of his sons in their beds on Wednesday, relatives said, in the latest attack to highlight Iraq's deep sectarian rifts ahead of a December poll.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim militants set off a car bomb near a major bank in Indian Kashmir's main city on Wednesday, killing four people and wounding at least 60, police said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Four people were killed and 11 injured when a passenger train hit a crowd of commuters standing too close to the edge of a station platform in the South African capital Pretoria on Saturday, police said.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Political unrest erupted beyond Ethiopia's capital on Friday, reportedly claiming four lives in a northern town, amid mounting international concern for the African giant's stability.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - A clash between police and machete-wielding members of a shadowy Islamic sect on Indonesia's eastern Sulawesi island has killed four people, three of them police officers, a senior policeman said on Wednesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. contractors for the U.S. military were killed in Iraq last month, the military said on Saturday, confirming an attack that a British newspaper said saw two of the men murdered in front of a jeering crowd.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed four people, including two police officers, when it exploded near a police patrol in central Baghdad on Sunday morning, Iraqi police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. Marines were killed by a roadside bomb west of Baghdad and in a separate attack a U.S. soldier was killed in Hit, northwest of the capital, the U.S. military said on Friday.
KABUL (Reuters) - A local aid worker and two senior provincial officials were among four people killed in Afghanistan, officials said on Friday, in attacks blamed on Taliban militants.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. troops shot four Afghan policemen dead and wounded another after mistaking them for militants during an operation in southern Afghanistan, a senior local official said on Tuesday.
GUSH ETZION, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen killed three Jewish settlers in a drive-by shooting and Israeli troops shot dead a senior Islamic militant in an eruption of violence in the occupied West Bank on Sunday.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Two bombs set off minutes apart killed four people and wounded dozens of others in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, local officials said on Saturday.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Two African Union peacekeepers and two civilian contractors were killed in an ambush in Sudan's troubled Darfur region on Saturday, the AU's first casualties of the conflict, the acting head of the mission said on Saturday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. troops died in fighting in western Iraq on Monday, the U.S. military said on Tuesday, taking to a least 1,935 the number of U.S. forces killed since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber drove into Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone complex with a convoy of other vehicles on Tuesday and blew up, killing three people and wounding six, Iraqi police said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers have been killed by roadside bombs in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Tuesday, bringing the number of American soldiers killed since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq to 1,906.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese labourer who was insulted when he tried to claim unpaid wages ran amok and killed four people, triggering anguish across the country about the plight of millions of abused migrant workers.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia confirmed its fourth human death from bird flu on Friday amid growing global alarm that the virus would mutate and become a pandemic.
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans police killed four looters who had opened fire on them on Sunday as rescue teams scoured homes and toxic waters flooding streets to find survivors and recover thousands of bloated corpses.
GAZA (Reuters) - An explosion tore through the home of a Palestinian family active in the Hamas militant group on Monday, killing at least four people and drawing vows of revenge against Israel, which denied any connection with the blast.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Katrina killed four people, cut power to 2.4 million and left Florida's densely populated southeast coast littered on Friday with branches and fallen trees.
TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli undercover troops killed four Palestinians, one of them an Islamic Jihad leader, in a raid on Wednesday night in the Tulkarm refugee camp in the West Bank, witnesses and a military source said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed and three wounded in a bomb attack in Afghanistan on Sunday as they were trying to clear militants from an area before an election next month, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. troops were killed in a roadside bomb blast north of Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said in a statement.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Four suspected militants were killed and several arrested in gunfights with Saudi security forces on Thursday, security sources said.
Foreign diplomats press Iraq talks; 4 US troops killed // BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S., British and U.N. diplomats pressed Iraqi leaders in their make-or-break negotiations over a constitution on Thursday, determined to get a draft finalized by the new August 22 deadline.
KAFR QALLIL, West Bank (Reuters) - The misery and anger at Mohammed Mansour's funeral on Thursday could only underscore the lack of celebrations in the occupied West Bank over Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip. Mansour, 50, was shot dead with three other Palestinians on Wednesday by a West Bank settler as tensions burned among ultranationalist Jews over forced evacuations from the Gaza settlements.
Four US troops killed; Iraqis spar on constitution // BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi insurgents savaged a U.S. patrol overnight, pursuing a violent revolt heedless of Iraqi politicians racing to draft a constitution that Washington hopes will stabilize the country and reduce its military burden.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Four policemen were killed on Sunday fighting Kurdish separatists near the town of Urmia in Iran's restive and mountainous western borderlands, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Bombings by rebels in India's northeastern state of Assam on Sunday killed four people in an increase of violence ahead of independence day on Aug. 15, police said.
SHFARAM, Israel (Reuters) - A soldier from a Jewish settlement shot dead four people on a bus in an Israeli Arab town on Thursday in what Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called an attack by a "bloodthirsty terrorist" ahead of a Gaza pullout.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in southwest Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
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YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - At least four workers were killed at Russia's biggest standalone steel mill on Friday when the roof of a gas purifying facility collapsed and buried them under tonnes of debris, officials said.
GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority executed four convicted murderers on Sunday, officials said, defying international calls to halt capital punishment as part of reforms considered key to securing future Palestinian statehood.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed by roadside bombs in two similar incidents west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in statements on Sunday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A former Iraqi police commando blew himself up on Saturday in a failed bid to assassinate the leader of the controversial Wolf Brigade, killing three members of the force in the process, the Interior Minister said.
TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - Separatist Kurdish militants killed four Turkish soldiers in an ambush in eastern Turkey overnight, security officials said on Sunday.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Kurdish rebels killed four members of the Turkish security forces in an ambush on their vehicle on Wednesday, a provincial governor said, amid warnings that violence is on the rise in the troubled southeast.
NEW YORK - A small plane on a sightseeing tour over Coney Island went into a tailspin and slammed into the famous beach Saturday, killing all four people aboard but injuring none of the stunned sunbathers who witnessed the crash.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents killed four Iraqi soldiers in clashes outside a power plant in a southern Iraqi town on Tuesday, army sources said.
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan police opened fire on protesters on Wednesday killing four and wounding dozens after violent demonstrations over a report that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Koran.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three car bombs targeting military patrols exploded in Baghdad on Saturday, killing four people and wounding 16, police said.
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Two suspected militants and two Saudi security personnel were killed in a fierce gunfight Thursday in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, the Interior Ministry said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombs targeting U.S. and Iraqi forces killed at least four people on Friday as insurgents stepped up pressure on Iraq's new leaders after a lull in violence since January elections.
CAIRO (Reuters) - A Frenchman wounded in a bombing in a Cairo bazaar died on his way back to Paris for treatment, a French foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday, bringing the death toll to four.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed Saturday when their vehicle struck a land mine in southeast Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint in Baquba northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least three Iraqi soldiers, police said.
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers were shot and killed during a raid on a marijuana-growing operation in rural Alberta on Thursday, in one of the bloodiest days in the history of the national police force, a senior official said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four people were killed and 22 injured when a bus exploded in a Shi'ite neighborhood of Baghdad Saturday, police said.
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Torrential rains killed at least four people and washed away homes on Tuesday after flooding parts of Venezuela's capital, Caracas, and nearby coastal areas, officials said.
ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Three police officers and a youth were shot to death in the Mexican resort of Acapulco on Saturday in violence authorities said could be linked to Sunday's local elections.
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KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwaiti security forces killed four al Qaeda militants and captured three others, including a suspected leader, during clashes Monday in oil-rich Kuwait which is battling a surge in al Qaeda-linked violence.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops in Iraq shot dead four detainees on Monday during a riot at the main U.S. prison camp for guerrilla suspects, near the Kuwaiti border.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded close to a police station in southern Baghdad on Friday, killing four Iraqi civilians, police said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Four Russian commandos were killed on Saturday while storming two houses used by armed militants, suspected to have Islamic links, in the southern Dagestan region, Russian media reported.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber driving a police car blew himself up at a police station in southern Baghdad on Monday, killing at least three Iraqis and injuring many more, a police source said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops mistakenly killed two Iraqi policemen and two bystanders near a checkpoint just hours after an American warplane exacted a heavy civilian toll when it bombed the wrong house, Iraqi officials said Sunday.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi police, battling a surge in al Qaeda-linked violence, killed four militants in a shootout on Sunday, the Interior Ministry said.
NAZRAN, Russia (Reuters) - Russian troops killed four rebels hiding in a house in the Russian city of Nazran, 20 miles from the border with Chechnya, in a firefight on Saturday, officials said.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber posing as a taxi driver killed two policemen and a civilian near Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's Baghdad party headquarters on Monday as insurgents pressed a bloody campaign to wreck Iraq's Jan. 30 election.
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - The Peruvian government on Sunday denied planning an imminent offensive after urging residents living near a captured police station in the southern Andes to leave their homes. Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero denied an offensive was taking shape in the town of Andahuaylas. An armed group took over the police station and parts of the town on Saturday, and four policemen were killed on Sunday.
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GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli drone fired a missile at Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing four, witnesses said.
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a military vehicle in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Saturday, killing four paramilitary troops, a security official said.
HIT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes launched airstrikes on the town of Hit, in Iraq's Sunni Muslim western region, killing four people and wounding seven, hospital officials said Tuesday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Islamic militants killed four anti-drugs unit members and seized more than 170 submachine guns and pistols on Tuesday in an attack on the unit's offices in Russia's volatile Caucasus region.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Jailed uprising leader Marwan Barghouthi on Sunday quit the race to replace late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, ensuring a smooth election and making the victory of a veteran peacemaker almost certain. But hopes of Middle East peace, raised since Arafat's death in Paris on Nov. 11, suffered a blow when militants burrowed under an Israeli post on the Gaza-Egypt border to kill four soldiers in the deadliest attack on the army for seven months.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four staff of British-based security firm Global Risk Strategies were killed and 15 wounded in an attack in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone on Thursday, the company said on Friday.
KABUL (Reuters) - Four Afghan police officers were killed and five wounded when their car was hit by a blast in the central province of Uruzgan on Tuesday, officials said, in an attack for which Taliban guerrillas claimed responsibility.
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A Palestinian teenager blew himself up in an open-air market in Tel Aviv on Monday, killing three people in a show of strength by militants three days after Yasser Arafat was airlifted to France for urgent medical care.
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MONROVIA (Reuters) - At least four people died and 17 were injured in rare religious riots in Liberia's capital on Friday before U.N. troops quelled mobs of stick-wielding youths rampaging through the crumbling city.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed four Palestinians in air strikes late on Sunday and early Monday during a raid on a militant stronghold in southern Gaza, medics and witnesses said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Baghdad airport employees to work on Thursday, killing at least four people and wounding several others, including the driver, an airport employee said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four Iraqi National Guards were killed and up to 80 others wounded in a mortar attack on their headquarters north of Baghdad Tuesday, the U.S. military and Iraqi Defense Ministry said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Explosions damaged churches in Baghdad on Saturday and the U.S. military reported the deaths of four more American troops in bomb attacks elsewhere in Iraq.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed four Palestinians, including a militant and a 10-year-old girl, in northern Gaza on Friday, bringing to 83 the Palestinian death toll from a massive nine-day-old offensive.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's military and al Qaeda-linked militants agreed to a 10-day truce on Monday, the day the army killed four Islamic militants including two foreigners in a tribal region near Afghanistan, officials said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead four Palestinian gunmen who were infiltrating Israel's border with northern Gaza, witnesses said, as the army continued a wide-scale offensive in the area to weed out rocket launchers.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Four Australian men have committed suicide after being caught up in an investigation into child Internet pornography that has resulted in more than 200 arrested and charged for 2,000 offences, police said on Saturday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. Marines were killed in action in Iraq on Friday in three attacks west of Baghdad, the American military said on Saturday.
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (Reuters) - Hurricane Jeanne killed four people, filled oceanfront condos with sand and left large swaths of coastline knee-deep in water on Sunday as it plowed through parts of Florida scarred by Hurricane Frances three weeks ago.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) - Heavy rains and winds from Tropical Storm Jeanne killed two people in the Dominican Republic on Thursday, bringing to four the deadly toll of the latest Atlantic storm to threaten the Caribbean and the United States.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Separate roadside bomb attacks around Baghdad and near the northern city of Mosul have killed four American soldiers, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinians, including a 14-year-old, and wounded dozens more on Thursday in a major raid into Gaza days after the first suicide bombing in Israel for nearly six months.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Maoist rebels blockading the Nepali capital killed four soldiers on Tuesday in an attack on a patrol trying to keep the main highway to Tibet open for traffic, an army spokesman said.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said its forces killed four foreign militants in a border area Monday as Afghan President Hamid Karzai visited to discuss the battle against Islamic guerrillas before his October re-election bid.
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - The beating to death of four vagrants and the battering of several others in downtown Sao Paulo have raised suspicions of death squads as crime soars in this vast South American city, officials said on Friday.
GAZA (Reuters) - An explosion tore through the home of a senior Hamas leader in Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least four people and wounding him and about a dozen other Palestinians, medics said.
KHALIDIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) - At least four Iraqis were killed on Monday when a civilian bus was caught in a blast west of Baghdad, witnesses said.
TOKYO (Reuters) - A leak of high-pressure steam at a Japanese nuclear power plant killed four workers on Monday but authorities said no radiation escaped in the accident, which took place on the anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed four Palestinians they said were on the way to plant a bomb Friday near a border fence separating the Gaza Strip from the Jewish state, Israeli radio stations reported.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb killed four people in a southern residential district of Baghdad Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks in the capital, police and witnesses said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle as a convoy carrying Iraq's justice minister drove past in Baghdad Saturday, killing four people but not wounding the minister, police and U.S. troops at the scene said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. marines who died in western Iraq Saturday lost their lives in a vehicle accident, not in combat, the U.S. military said Sunday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Four Palestinians, including three militants, were killed when their car exploded in the central Gaza Strip Saturday in a blast that Palestinian security officials blamed on Israel.
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Three Palestinians and an Israeli settler in the West Bank were killed on Sunday in a fresh spasm of violence as Israeli troops maintained a stranglehold around the Gaza Strip border town of Beit Hanoun.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli army forces killed three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Friday as they wound up a search for weapons-smuggling tunnels in a southern refugee camp on the border with Egypt. In the West Bank, Palestinian militants publicly machine-gunned a "collaborator" with Israel before hundreds of approving spectators in a town square.
KABUL (Reuters) - Three people wounded in a double bomb attack in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad died in hospital, bringing the death toll in the latest pre-election violence to four, officials said on Thursday.
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FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Four people were killed on Wednesday when a house in the restive Iraqi city of Falluja was hit by a missile fired from a U.S. warplane, witnesses said.
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) - The bomber behind a blast in Istanbul that killed four people just four days before the city hosts a NATO summit was a woman in her twenties from the mainly Kurdish southeast, Turkish authorities said Friday. A female bus passenger who was apparently carrying the bomb was killed along with three others, and 21 people were injured. Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler said the bus was not the target and the bomb had gone off by mistake.
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in an attack in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Monday, the U.S. military said.
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb attack destroyed an Iraqi police car and a civilian four-wheel-drive vehicle carrying foreigners in the western city of Ramadi on Wednesday, killing at least four Iraqis, hospital sources said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Four Afghans died in a bomb attack on Wednesday apparently targeting NATO peacekeepers, officials said, a day after President Bush held up Afghanistan as a role model for Iraq.
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Indian police on Tuesday shot dead four suspected Islamic militants, including a woman, suspected of plotting to assassinate the chief minister of strife-torn Gujarat state.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suspected car bomb killed four Iraqis and wounded 11 outside a U.S. base in the northern Iraqi town of Baquba on Tuesday, police and witnesses said.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Four people died and 22 were injured when militants threw a grenade into a hotel packed with tourists in Indian Kashmir on Saturday, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a top Iraqi diplomat on Saturday in the first high-profile assassination in Iraq since an interim government took over on June 1. In other lawlessness, kidnappers killed a Lebanese citizen, Hussein Ali Alyan, 28, and two of his Iraqi colleagues, after seizing them in Baghdad on Thursday, a Lebanese diplomat said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. Marines were killed in action in the volatile al-Anbar province west of Baghdad on Saturday, while a U.S. Army soldier was killed in a separate mortar attack several days earlier, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb blew up on a busy Baghdad street on Monday, killing four people and wounding 25, witnesses and U.S. military officials said.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Four army soldiers were killed in an overnight gunbattle with members of a frontline rebel group in Indian Kashmir, police said on Wednesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An explosion destroyed an armored civilian vehicle Monday near an entrance to Baghdad's "Green Zone" compound where the U.S.-led coalition is based, killing at least four people, soldiers at the scene said.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on a checkpoint near the northern Iraqi city of Baquba on Friday, killing four members of Iraq's security forces, medics and witnesses said.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Four people were killed and 17 others injured late on Thursday when a bomb, possibly packed into a street vendor's cart, detonated in the western Colombian city of Medellin, a police spokesman said.
KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops and followers of rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr clashed near one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites early on Wednesday and four Iraqis were killed and nine wounded, witnesses said.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinians as they tried to cross the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening, Israel Radio reported.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - A woman hid a grenade in her vagina and smuggled it into a Colombian prison, where it exploded and killed three inmates on Tuesday, prison authorities said.
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed four Iraqi policemen and wounded one in the northern Iraq city of Mosul on Friday, police and hospital officials said.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli missiles killed four Palestinian militants in a strike on a car in the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, Palestinian medics and officials said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four schoolchildren were killed by gunfire in Baghdad on Sunday, shortly after a roadside bomb ripped through a U.S. military vehicle, witnesses said.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Four Saudi militants killed by police in the past 24 hours were on a most-wanted list of al Qaeda-linked fugitives accused of carrying out attacks in the kingdom, the Interior Ministry said Friday.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A suspected al Qaeda suicide car bomber destroyed a security forces building in the Saudi capital Wednesday, killing four people and wounding 148 in the first major attack on a government target.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim militants killed four Saudi policemen Tuesday at checkpoints along a road north of Riyadh shortly after Saudi security forces defused two car bombs in the capital, a Saudi security source said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas killed four U.S. Marines in the volatile al-Anbar province west of Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said in a statement on Tuesday.
LEGANES, Spain (Reuters) - The suspected Tunisian ringleader of last month's Madrid train bombings blew himself up with three or four accomplices after police cornered them in a suburban Madrid apartment, officials said Sunday.
MADRID (Reuters) - A police officer and three suspects were killed on Saturday when a group of men sought by police in connection with the Madrid train bombings set off an explosion when cornered, the government said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A vengeful crowd of cheering Iraqis dragged the burned and mutilated bodies of four American contractors through the streets of Falluja Wednesday after killing them in a vehicle ambush.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Security forces in Ivory Coast shot dead at least four demonstrators on Thursday as marchers gathered for a banned opposition protest against President Laurent Gbagbo in the main city, security officials said.
MIAMI (Reuters) - Three Cuban migrants were rescued as they approached Florida on flimsy inner tube rafts on Thursday and a survivor told the Coast Guard at least four others had died during the voyage.
KABUL (Reuters) - Munitions being used in an Afghan army training exercise exploded accidentally, killing four Afghan soldiers and wounding nine people, four Americans among them, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli helicopter gunships killed Hamas' spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and at least three other people in a missile strike as they left a mosque before dawn on Monday in Gaza, witnesses said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Four Afghans were killed and 24 injured in a stampede during new year celebrations at a shrine in the north of the country, witnesses said on Saturday.
GAZA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israel killed four Palestinians in two missile strikes into a Gaza refugee camp Wednesday, pursuing what it called a relentless offensive against militants after two suicide bombers struck a strategic Israeli port.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead two Western engineers and two Iraqis south of Baghdad Tuesday, police said, the latest in a series of ambushes that have claimed the lives of eight foreign civilians in Iraq in the last eight days.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bomb attacks in Baghdad killed four U.S. soldiers, the Army said on Sunday, bringing to nine the number of troops killed in Iraq in the last four days by explosives planted by guerrillas to target American patrols.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers struck a crowded restaurant in an Istanbul building used by freemasons late on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding five more, the city's governor said.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Gunmen opposed to Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide attacked a police station in the northern city of Gonaives on Thursday, sparking an exchange of gunfire with police that killed four bystanders, local radio reported.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - At least four Indian soldiers were killed and seven wounded Thursday when their vehicle ran over a land mine planted by Islamic militants in Kashmir, police said.
GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian militant who lost his legs and an arm to an Israeli tank shell a year ago battled soldiers who came to arrest him on Monday in a Gaza Strip raid that ended with him being killed along with three other gunmen.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with more than 400 pounds of explosives into a Baghdad hotel where an Iraqi minister and foreigners were staying on Wednesday, killing three people.
BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Four Brazilian Labor Ministry officials were killed on Wednesday in a shooting that could be related to the discovery of slavery near the capital, prompting the government to pledge all resources necessary to find the killers.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A rebel attack on a Russian military convoy killed four servicemen and injured a further four on Monday as a U.N. envoy began new talks on conditions in and around the turbulent region.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Guerrillas opened fire on a minibus carrying Iraqi women home from work at a U.S. base west of Baghdad, killing four and wounding six, police and hospital officials said on Thursday.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian troops shot and killed four guerrilla leaders in disputed Kashmir, authorities said Friday in what they called major successes for security forces battling a 14-year revolt against the government's rule.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A bomb blast killed four people late Saturday at a cafe on Indonesia's Sulawesi island and wounded at least three others, police and hospital sources said.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Police in Georgia said on Thursday they were searching for a man who is believed to have shot three adults and a baby to death and then kidnapped two of his daughters and a stepdaughter.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Suspected Islamic militants attacked a Pakistan army camp in a remote tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least four soldiers and wounding another three, officials said Friday.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinians Saturday in the bloodiest confrontation in at least two weeks in the West Bank city of Nablus while a fourth Palestinian was killed in the Gaza Strip.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Four Thai soldiers were killed when robbers stormed a weapons depot and 18 schools were burned down in a series of attacks in a predominantly Muslim province in southern Thailand, the army said on Sunday.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - An avalanche swept six climbers off New Zealand's second highest mountain, killing four of them and injuring two, police said Wednesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas detonated a powerful bomb in a busy Baghdad shopping district on Sunday, killing a U.S. soldier and two Iraqi children, and another U.S. soldier died in an attack on a convoy west of the capital.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops killed four suspected insurgents in increasingly volatile northern Iraq on Saturday, after a wave of deadly attacks took the U.S. combat death toll to 12 since the capture of Saddam Hussein.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four Bulgarian soldiers were killed and many other people were wounded in several bomb attacks on a military base and government buildings in southern Iraq, Polish defense officials said on Saturday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas in Iraq staged multiple assaults that killed four U.S. soldiers, keeping up violence that has raged on since Saddam Hussein's capture, the U.S. military said on Friday.
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Suspected Colombian gunmen ambushed and shot dead four Venezuelan National Guard troops near the two nations' border on Saturday in the second deadly attack on Venezuelan forces in three days, officers said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Four Russian soldiers were killed and another four wounded when they stumbled into a rebel ambush in a volatile mountainous region of Chechnya, officials at the local Interior Ministry said on Monday.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed four Palestinians, including a boy of six, in a major West Bank raid Monday that provided a sharp contrast to the festive launch in Geneva of a symbolic Middle East peace accord.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Four people, including a policeman, were killed when ethnic groups with machetes and rifles clashed in a major cocoa-growing area in Ivory Coast on Thursday in fresh signs of mounting tension over land.
(AP) - Three more children have died of flu-related illnesses in Colorado, bringing to at least four the number of influenza deaths in the state this season, officials said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted southwest China early on Saturday, killing four and injuring six as earthen homes collapsed on sleeping residents.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A Nepali brigadier general and three soldiers were killed when Maoist rebels, fighting to topple the country's constitutional monarchy, ambushed an army patrol Saturday, an army spokesman said.
NAZRAN, Russia (Reuters) - Four elite Russian policemen were killed in an explosion on Friday when their team was called to a house near the separatist region of Chechnya, a police source said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan forces killed four suspected Islamic militants when they tried to overrun a government base near the border with Pakistan, an official said on Friday.
ASADABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least four Afghans were killed and three hurt when their car was blown up by a remote-controlled bomb apparently intended for a U.S. vehicle close to a U.S. military base, witnesses said on Thursday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The top U.S. military commander in Iraq said on Tuesday he was ready to unleash any weapon in his arsenal on guerrillas as the latest bombings killed at least four people and wounded 10 in the country's two biggest cities.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed a 10-year-old Palestinian boy and three militants in the Gaza Strip on Friday, but eased a West Bank blockade to try to bolster Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie and encourage peace moves.
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Four people were killed and five others wounded in a shooting on a U.S. highway in southeast Arizona on Tuesday, apparently triggered by a dispute among illegal immigrant smugglers, authorities said.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The top five stories of a parking garage under construction at a casino collapsed Thursday, sending concrete slabs and metal beams crashing down as workers ran for cover. Four people were killed, about 20 were injured and one was missing, officials said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinians in fighting on Saturday in the occupied territories, including a senior member of the Hamas militant group, a woman bystander and a teenager, medics said.
KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Three U.S. military police died in an ambush in the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala and another American military policeman was killed by a bomb in Baghdad, the U.S. military said Friday.
AMMAN (Reuters) - Four Jordanians died when U.S. troops opened fire on their car at a checkpoint in Iraq on Thursday after the driver of the vehicle apparently ignored warnings to stop, a Jordanian foreign ministry source said.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Bomb attacks on U.S. troops in the volatile territory around Baghdad killed three American soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter, the Army said Tuesday.
MANILA (Reuters) - A Muslim rebel was shot dead by Philippine police in the toilet of a Manila detention center on Tuesday, ending a three-hour hostage drama in which three guards were killed and three wounded.
MANILA (Reuters) - A man hurled a grenade into a mosque in the southern Philippines during weekly prayers on Friday, killing four people and wounding at least 17 in what officials said appeared to be the result of a personal feud.
BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least four Afghans were killed and two were missing after a blast on Friday outside the main base of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, which may have been caused by children playing with bombs, a U.S. officer said.
PHILIPPINES: Four people were killed and at least 30 were wounded after two grenades were hurled into a mosque during Friday prayers Oct. 3 in Midsayap on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, Reuters reported.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police said U.S. troops shot dead four civilians in the volatile town of Falluja, and guerrillas fired grenades at a Baghdad hotel on Saturday housing senior officials with the U.S.-led occupation forces.
HEBRON, West Bank/GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed a leader of the Islamic Jihad movement and three other Palestinian militants on Thursday in raids in the Gaza Strip and West Bank which drew immediate vows of revenge.
RIYADH (Reuters) - At least one Saudi policeman and three militants were killed on Tuesday in a shootout at a hospital compound in the south of the kingdom, the latest in a series of clashes involving suspected al Qaeda members.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber blew up a truck outside security offices near rebel Chechnya on Monday, killing at least three people in a fresh setback for Moscow's peace plan for the region.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Four Indian soldiers including an officer were killed and six wounded on Saturday when suspected Muslim rebels stormed an army camp in India's Jammu and Kashmir state, police said.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Suspected Taliban rebels stopped a car carrying Afghans working for a Danish aid organization, tied them up, then shot four of them to death, the provincial governor and aid officials said Wednesday.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Four people were killed in a hotel fire in Indonesia on Sunday, at least some of them because they jumped from the upper floors of the blazing building, police said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two Iraqi policemen and two civilians were killed on Wednesday during a gunbattle with thieves who tried to rob a money changer in central Baghdad, witnesses said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed a commander and three other members of Hamas's armed wing in a helicopter missile strike, prompting a vow of revenge from the Palestinian militant group as a U.S.-backed peace plan took another battering.
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ROSH HA'AYIN, Israel (Reuters) - Two Palestinian suicide bombers killed two Israelis in attacks barely an hour apart Tuesday, shattering six weeks of relative calm ushered in by a cease-fire declared by Palestinian militants.
(AP) - Teenage Palestinian suicide bombers attacked a shopping plaza in Israel and a bus stop in the West Bank Tuesday, killing two Israelis and raising new doubt about the fate of a shaky Mideast truce.
BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. helicopter gunships killed four guerrillas in southern Afghanistan and coalition troops forced another group to flee into Pakistan after attacking a U.S. base, a U.S. spokesman said on Friday.
SAINTE-MAXIME, France (Reuters) - Forest fires that killed four tourists and destroyed vast tracts of woodland near France's Riviera coast were declared under control Tuesday after a 24-hour battle by nearly 2,000 firefighters. Local officials said they suspected arsonists were behind some 30 devastating blazes that shrouded the picturesque Provencal countryside in thick smoke and forced hundreds of vacationers to flee their villas and camp sites.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq on Saturday, three by a grenade lobbed at a children's hospital, in a guerrilla war that the killing of Saddam Hussein's sons has failed to check.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed the top Hamas military strategist and three other militants on Saturday in a helicopter missile strike against a car in the Gaza Strip, drawing vows of revenge from the Islamic group.
BOSTON (Reuters) - Three small boys miraculously survived a plane crash in a remote Massachusetts forest that killed their mother and two brothers, and then had to endure a brutally cold night before being rescued on Monday morning with their father, who later died, police said.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A hand-grenade carried by a guest at a Cambodian wedding party fell off his belt as he was dancing and exploded, killing four people and injuring 41, officials said on Thursday.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Reuters) - An "extremely unstable" man opened fire during an argument over a compact disc player at a temporary employment agency in Huntsville, Alabama, on Tuesday, killing four people and wounding one other before surrendering to police, authorities said.
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in Kuwait on Tuesday when their helicopter crashed during desert training in what U.S. officials said was an apparent accident.
(Reuters) - Congolese villagers have stoned and beaten to death four teachers accused of casting an evil spell to cause an outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease that has killed nearly 70 people, a local official said Friday.
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Three military dissidents and a female protester opposed to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have been killed execution-style after being kidnapped, bound and gagged, police said on Tuesday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Four Israeli soldiers were killed on Saturday when their tank ran over a large bomb and exploded near a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All four American troops aboard were killed on Thursday when a U.S. Army UH-60 "Black Hawk" helicopter crashed east of Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - The Israeli army killed four Palestinians, at least three of them gunmen, Tuesday as it blockaded Palestinian inhabitants in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during Israel's election day.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - At least four people were killed and 15 injured on Thursday when suspected leftist rebels detonated a car bomb near a town where U.S. Special Forces are due to train Colombian troops, officials said.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The body of a naval crew member was recovered on Saturday and hopes were fading for three others after a Singapore warship was crushed in a collision with a container ship in Singapore's worst-ever naval accident.
A man using an assault-style rifle shot and killed his girlfriend and two convenience store workers in Richmond, Virginia Friday before turning the gun on himself.
NUSAIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza (Reuters) - Israeli forces clashed with gunmen in two Gaza Strip refugee camps early on Thursday, hours after the army killed four Palestinians who it said had been en route to attacks on Jewish settlements.
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BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Four people, including two civilians, were killed when rebels wearing women's clothing ambushed a van just north of the Burundian capital Bujumbura, witnesses said on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Four guerrillas were killed by security forces in gun battles on Saturday in the latest rebel violence in India's mainly Muslim state of Kashmir, the Press Trust of India reported.
KARACHI (Reuters) - Four people, a woman among them, were killed on Thursday when a three-story building housing a chemical warehouse collapsed in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi, police and ambulance sources said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Western warplanes bombed southern Iraq Sunday in an attack that Iraqi officials said killed four people at oil company offices but which the U.S. military said was aimed at Iraqi air defenses.
CHANDIGARH (Reuters) - An Indian fighter jet crashed into a residential complex in the northern city of Ambala on Tuesday, killing at least four people, police said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Two U.S. special forces soldiers and two Afghans were killed when their car crashed into a truck near the town of Gardez in southern Afghanistan, state-controlled media reported on Monday.
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Israeli Army Kills Four Palestinians, Wounds 30 // RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Two Palestinians, one a toddler, were killed and more than 30 wounded in the Gaza Strip on Sunday when Israeli troops raided a crowded refugee camp to raze houses it said contained arms-smuggling tunnels.
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - An Israeli bus driver and a passenger pinned a Palestinian suicide bomber to the ground on Thursday after spotting his explosive belt, then fled as the man blew himself up, killing a woman and injuring 12 people. Violence also flared in the southern Gaza Strip, where Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian youths during a tank raid carried out despite international condemnation of earlier Israeli strikes in which civilians were killed.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said U.S. and British warplanes struck civilian targets in the north of the country on Wednesday, killing four people and wounding ten others.
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Violence flared on Monday ahead of the second round of Indian Kashmir's state elections that Islamic militants have vowed to sabotage, as security forces gunned down four rebels, police said.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead four Palestinian protesters on Sunday as thousands took to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to demonstrate against the siege of Yasser Arafat's headquarters.
ABERDEEN, S.D. (Reuters) - A medical helicopter crashed while transporting a patient to a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, hospital, killing all four on board, hospital officials said on Tuesday.
MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Four suspected militants, including two linked to a bloody attack on a church last year, were killed in a shootout with the police in eastern Pakistan early on Sunday, police said.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Four additional deaths believed to have been caused by mosquito-borne West Nile virus were reported on Tuesday in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio.
TAXILA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Three Pakistani nurses were killed Friday when militants lobbed two grenades at a crowd of women leaving a missionary hospital chapel, the second assault on a Christian target in Pakistan in less than a week. One attacker died, but it was unclear whether he was shot by accomplices or died from a shrapnel wound.
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The U.S. military said Wednesday American special forces soldiers had killed four men in east Afghanistan but withdrew an earlier claim that they did so fighting their way out an ambush.
BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - The West Nile virus has killed four of the 58 people in Louisiana known to have been infected with the rare mosquito-borne illness, putting this year's outbreak on pace to become the largest ever in the United States, state health officials said on Friday.
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India said on Monday its troops killed four rebels who tried to cross the line of control into Indian Kashmir from Pakistan Kashmir as police reported 13 people wounded in a grenade attack by suspected separatists.
ZIF JUNCTION, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen sprayed two Israeli vehicles with bullets at a road junction in the West Bank Friday, killing four people including a Jewish settler couple and their child.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A teenaged girl and three Indian security troops were killed and 30 others wounded in guerrilla attacks across Kashmir, police said Wednesday, ahead of a visit by the U.S. secretary of state to India and Pakistan.
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Floods killed at least four people and made thousands homeless in southern Venezuela as heavy rain burst river banks and inundated a town in Apure State, officials said on Monday.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Four suspected separatist rebels were killed in a shootout with troops while a policeman was wounded in a blast believed to have been triggered by guerrillas in Indian Kashmir Monday, police said.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A small plane crashed into a lakeside picnic area crowded with families celebrating Independence Day near Los Angeles on Thursday, killing the pilot and co-pilot and a child and a baby on the ground, officials said.
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SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) - Four South Korean sailors were killed and 18 wounded in a clash with North Korean patrol boats on Saturday in waters off the west coast of the divided peninsula, South Korea said.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Investigators sought on Friday to determine what caused a small airplane to crash in the mountains near Merritt, British Columbia, killing all four people on board.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A powerful bomb exploded in a crowded bus in Indonesia's troubled region of Central Sulawesi killing four people and injuring more than a dozen, police said on Thursday.
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (Reuters) - Diplomats began moves toward an African summit on Madagascar's disputed presidency as state media reported Tuesday that four people had been killed in the island's latest clashes.
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JERUSALEM (AP) - A gunman sneaked onto the grounds of an Orthodox Jewish high school in the West Bank late Tuesday and killed three teen-agers, even as Israeli troops continued their daily raids into Palestinian towns. The attacker was shot and killed by the settlement's security chief.
(Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in an Israeli market on Sunday, killing three other people and shattering a sense of security that had slowly been returning to public places in Israel.
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BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Australian special forces, backed by U.S. troops, killed up to four al Qaeda rebels on the Afghan-Pakistan border at last bringing into the open a shift of fighting to the sensitive frontier region, military spokesman said Tuesday.
GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli army said troops killed four Palestinians trying to attack the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip before dawn on Thursday.
CRESCENT CITY, Fla. (Reuters) - The engineer of a crowded Amtrak train that derailed in Florida, killing four people and injuring 159, slammed on the emergency brakes because he saw a problem on the tracks ahead, U.S. investigators said on Friday.
(AP) - An American F-16 fighter mistakenly dropped at least one laser-guided bomb on Canadian soldiers participating in a nighttime live-fire training exercise in Afghanistan. Four soldiers were killed and eight injured, Canadian officials said.
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Four American soldiers were killed and one badly injured on Monday while blowing up suspected abandoned Taliban rockets near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A day care van went out of control on an Interstate and crashed Thursday, killing the driver and three children and critically injuring three others.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Federal investigators are probing possible organized crime links after four bodies were found dumped in a California reservoir over the past several days, officials said on Thursday.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed three Palestinian gunmen and a Palestinian factory worker shot dead his Israeli boss Wednesday as a European Union envoy visited Saudi Arabia for talks on a new peace initiative.
ZAMBOANGA (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim rebels bombed a market and threw a grenade into a cinema in the southern Philippines killing four civilians on Saturday as the United States stepped up its military buildup.
BEERSHEBA, Israel (Reuters) - Two Palestinian gunmen killed two people when they sprayed gunfire at a cafe near an army base in southern Israel Sunday before they were shot dead by soldiers, Israeli police and witnesses said.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen killed four Israelis in a raid on a Jewish settlement on Wednesday and Israeli warplanes launched a retaliatory strike on a Palestinian Authority building, wounding 11 people.
WINSLOW TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- Four bodies were found in a house in southern New Jersey Thursday, and authorities said they were investigating the deaths as homicides.
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NABLUS, West Bank (AP) -- Israeli commandos raided a Hamas hide-out and explosives lab in this Palestinian city Tuesday and killed four Islamic militants. Hamas responded by calling an ``all-out war'' against Israeli soldiers and settlers.
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A Palestinian tossed hand grenades into a wedding hall in northern Israel late Thursday, killing four people and injuring at least 30, Israeli police said. A Palestinian militant group claimed responsibility for the attack.
JOLO, Philippines (AP) -- Artillery and helicopter gunships fired at Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines, and an ambush by turncoat police killed three soldiers and one civilian, officials said.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- A man set off a hand grenade in a pub in northern Serbia, killing four people and injuring another 20 on Monday, the state-run Tanjug news agency reported.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Four people were killed and eight injured in a blaze early Monday at a central Paris hotel near the Louvre museum that may have been caused by arson, fire services said.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Four journalists including two Reuters reporters were believed dead on Monday after an ambush by armed men on the road from Pakistan to the Afghan capital, Kabul.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - A suspected Tamil Tiger rebel blew himself up in the eastern town of Batticaloa Thursday, killing himself and three soldiers and wounding eight civilians, the military said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Four Afghan workers for a U.N. mine-clearing program were killed in an air assault, the United Nations said Tuesday, the first independent confirmation of civilian deaths since the U.S.-led airstrikes began.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Four people were found shot to death in a home in a well-kept neighborhood Sunday, police said. Police found the bodies of two adults and two girls in the single-family Bernal Heights home at 9:45 a.m. All four had been shot, Inspector Philip Fee said.
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4 killed in Mideast fighting // BEIT JALLA, West Bank -- A day after Israel's open-ended takeover of parts of the West Bank town of Beit Jalla, Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen fought fierce battles there and in an adjacent refugee camp for several hours Wednesday.
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Three children found shot to death with their mother in a cornfield were identified Thursday as U.S. citizens who lived in Texas. The bodies of the children and their mother were found with gunshot wounds to the head and chest early Wednesday morning outside the western city of Guadalajara.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Four Russian servicemen accompanying a rail consignment of tanks to the country's Pacific coast region have been found shot dead in a boxcar, the military said on Saturday.
MIAMI -- Coast Guard crews searched the rough seas off Key West early Thursday for a woman and three young children who were thrown into the water when a speedboat smuggling Cubans into the United States capsized.
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(Reuters) - An antique steam-powered tractor exploded on Sunday at a county fairground here, killing four men and injuring about 35 to 40 people, including children, officials said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Four Russian servicemen were killed in the Chechen capital Grozny on Saturday when their armored vehicle was blown up by a remote-controlled mine and then came under fire from a rebel sniper, Russian media said.
SEATTLE (AP) -- The mop-up crew that was overtaken by a quickly spreading forest fire, killing four, had twice the number of rookies as experts recommend, authorities said. The 21-member team included eight who were inexperienced in fighting wildfires, The Seattle Times reported Friday. The paper and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer also said firefighters generally were not supposed to fight forest fires aggressively in the area where the four died.
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JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (Reuters) - A North Carolina woman is suspected of killing herself and her three small children by carbon monoxide poisoning after leaving her car running inside a hot garage Tuesday, an investigator close to the case said.
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GARY, Ind. (AP) -- Police in Gary are investigating the town's first quadruple homicide in 10 years after firefighters discovered the murder victims while responding to a fire early Wednesday.
PITTSBURG, Calif. (AP) -- A suspected drunk driver was in custody Monday after a head-on collision killed four people and left two others in the hospital, Pittsburg police said. The accident, involving two vehicles with three people in each car, happened about 11:35 p.m. Sunday night.
TOKYO (AP) -- A helicopter collided with a small, privately owned plane in western Japan on Saturday, killing at least four people, officials said. The crash occurred at about 11:30 a.m. in Kuwana City, about 200 miles southwest of Tokyo, said Yoshinobu Yamaguchi, a local police spokesman.
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) -- With his mother's ex-boyfriend opening fire behind him, a 10-year-old boy ``ran like hell'' as the gunman fatally shot the boy's grandmother and killed his little sister and two cousins.
(Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinians and wounded more than 200 on a day of mourning for the Palestinian-proclaimed Nakba or ``catastrophe'' of their exile at Israel's founding in 1948. An Israeli was also killed. Late on Tuesday, Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank riddled a passing car with bullets, killing a 21-year-old Jewish settler woman.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Four teenage girls were crushed to death in a shopping mall in the Indonesian capital on Sunday where British boy band A1 were performing, witnesses and hospital sources said.
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SANTA BARBARA -- As students here mourned four unexpected deaths, prosecutors Monday charged a University of California-Santa Barbara freshman with four counts of murder following a bizarre traffic incident Friday night.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Freezing rain coated roads and bridges across much of Alabama on Thursday, causing wrecks that were blamed for four deaths including two people whose car slid into a lake.
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A Marine Corps Osprey aircraft on a night-training mission crashed in a densely wooded area. Three crew members were killed and the fourth was missing and presumed dead.
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LONDON (AP) -- A high-speed intercity train carrying more than 100 passengers derailed north of London on Tuesday, killing four people. Police said they did not discount the possibility of terrorism.
BROADVIEW, Ill. (AP) -- A house fire killed a woman, her daughter-in-law and two children Wednesday while two other relatives escaped by jumping out a second-floor window, officials said. Flames shot out of every window on the ground floor of the house in this suburb west of Chicago, officials said.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) -- A 67-year-old man dying of cancer has confessed to killing his wife and two children nearly 22 years ago, and to killing another wife, authorities said.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- A car crashed through the concrete-block wall of an oceanfront motel garage and plunged 41 feet to the ground, landing upside down and killing the four women inside.
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A man who pleaded guilty to being under the influence during a crash that killed four people was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Michael Owen Pickett was sentenced Thursday by District Judge Joseph Bonaventure to the maximum sentence, with parole eligibility beginning no sooner than 16 years.
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) -- Police are calling the recent murder of four Stockton residents, including a 4-year-old boy, the worst crime the city has seen in years. Two toddlers spared in the killings are in protective custody.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Four people died Wednesday when a light aircraft crashed while on a short flight over Venezuela's dense Amazon jungle, authorities said. ``It seems that there are three people alive from the total of seven aboard the plane ... the plane appears to be very damaged and with traces of a fire,'' Civil Defense Chief Angel Rangel told the Union Radio station.
JERUSALEM (AP)-- Four prostitutes died Tuesday when a Tel Aviv brothel was torched, the latest attack in what police suspect is the work of a serial arsonist. The four unidentified women apparently tried to escape from the apartment that served as a brothel but found the front door locked, Tel Aviv police said. The women inside a second brothel also set ablaze Tuesday managed to escape without harm.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) -- A helicopter blade, human remains and chunks of insulation washed ashore Friday as Navy crews searched for two missing airmen whose helicopter plummeted into the Gulf of Mexico. Two other crew members were killed and two more survived.
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BARABOO, Wis. (Reuters) - Four people were killed Friday when their single-engine plane crashed into a fog-shrouded hillside in central Wisconsin, officials said. The Cessna 182 went down about 12 miles southwest of Baraboo, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said. The cause of the crash was not immediately known.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Stranded in the middle of a raging river, the four construction workers waited for hours to be rescued, clutching each other until floodwaters broke their grips and swept them away.
PICO RIVERA, Calif. (AP) -- Four family members, including three children, were found stabbed to death early Friday morning in their home, authorities said. The victims were apparently asleep when an intruder slipped into the home, said Lt. Marilyn Baker of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
MANAGUA (Reuters) - At least four children were killed in an earthquake in Nicaragua on Thursday and 42 people injured, and the death toll could go higher, authorities said Friday.
AKARTA, July 5 (Reuters) - Moslem gangs have killed four people in Indonesia's ravaged spice islands and burned the province's biggest university to the ground, a Christian lawyer said on Wednesday.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Four people were killed on Friday when a bomb went off in a bar near Warsaw that was known as a haunt of local criminals, Polish police said.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A Venezuelan shuttle bus exploded when its driver poured gasoline into the carburetor in an attempt to start it, newspapers reported Monday. Four people were killed and eight injured.
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SINKING SPRING, Pa. (AP) -- A man who chased his estranged girlfriend through town used his car to push hers into the path of an oncoming freight train after both had stopped at a railroad crossing, police said. She and three others in the car were killed.
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DALHART, Texas (AP) -- A medical evacuation helicopter crashed in fog in the Texas Panhandle this morning, killing four people, including an infant patient. The Life Star helicopter left Northwest Texas Healthcare System in Amarillo this morning to pick up a 4-month-old baby in respiratory distress in Boise City, Okla., and was returning at the time of the crash, said Moody Chisholm, the hospital's chief executive officer.
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) -- Two small planes collided on a runway at Sarasota Bradenton International Airport today, killing four people in a fiery explosion, officials said. One of the planes was taxiing off the runway and the other was either taking off or landing when they collided at about 10:30 a.m., airport spokesman Jim Naiman said.
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Two tornadoes carved paths of destruction through the Fort Worth area on Tuesday, shattering windows in high-rise buildings, overturning cars and uprooting trees. At least four people were killed and 48 injured.
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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Two bombs exploded in quick succession in Pakistan's port city of Karachi today, killing four people and injuring 32 others, mostly worshippers at a mosque. One bomb exploded at a Sunni Muslim mosque in Malir district of Karachi, a congested middle-class neighborhood, killing four people and wounding at least 28 others, said police.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- Former CIA director Adm. Stansfield Turner was among 17 people injured in a weekend airplane crash that killed his wife, a U.S. couple and a Spaniard, Costa Rican authorities said Sunday.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A strong earthquake shook Indonesia's main island, Java, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others, local officials said today. The magnitude 6.4 quake hit Tuesday night, centered beneath the Indian Ocean, about 145 miles southwest of Jakarta, Indonesia's Geophysics Agency said.
BISHOP'S STORTFORD, England (AP) -- A Korean Air 747 cargo plane crashed today shortly after takeoff from Stansted Airport north of London, setting off a fire and apparently killing all four people aboard.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- At least four people were killed as voting ended today in Sri Lanka's presidential election, a contest to decide between two distinct paths in the brutal 16-year war with Tamil separatists.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A 2-year-old girl was the lone survivor of a shooting rampage in which an airport security guard killed three people, including two high school teachers, before taking his own life, police said.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- A Serbian opposition leader said a highway collision that injured him and killed four others was an attempt on his life, according to newspaper reports today.
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Remnants of hurricane claim four lives // LAREDO, Texas (AP) -- The remnants of Hurricane Bret sloshed across southern Texas, soaking the region with up to a foot of rain and sending about 3,500 people to higher ground along the U.S.-Mexico border.
ROSEMEAD, Calif. (AP) -- A man apparently upset about a failed 20-year romantic relationship shot four people to death, wounded two others and kidnapped his ex-girlfriend, sheriff's deputies said. The woman was found early today after being released, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Margarita Velazquez. The victim was taken to a hospital for examination.
GRAYSLAKE, Ill. (AP) -- A single-engine plane clipped a power line on its approach to a suburban Chicago airport and plunged into a field, killing all four people on board.
NORTH LIMA, Ohio (AP) -- Investigators examined the engine of a wrecked small airplane today to determine why the craft plunged into a cornfield shortly after taking off, killing four.
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DHAKA (Reuters) - At least four people were killed and 100 injured when an earthquake rocked Maheshkhali island in the Bay of Bengal Thursday, Bangladeshi government officials said. They said more than 100 houses and government office buildings collapsed on the island because of the quake which also shook the nearby resort town of Cox's Bazar.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) -- One of four victims found in the ashes of a condominium fire that left 20 people homeless had a gunshot wound to the head, making police suspect a murder-suicide.
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PRISTINA, Yugoslavia -- An explosion in a school outside Pristina killed four people today, including two Gurkha soldiers in the British peacekeeping force, NATO said. A fifth person was injured, the first casualties since the allied peacekeepers entered Kosovo on June 12.
JACKSON, Ky. (AP) -- A University of Kentucky medical helicopter crashed on a rugged mountainside in eastern Kentucky shortly after taking off in thick fog, killing all four people aboard.
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) -- Gunmen opened fire in a courtroom Tuesday, killing the presiding judge, the prosecutor and two court officials, security officials and witnesses said. Five others were wounded.
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A man dressed in camouflage and armed with a shotgun opened fire today in a supermarket, killing four people. After the shooting, a 23-year-old man walked out of the store with a shotgun, and police took him into custody. Three of the dead were employees of Albertsons supermarket and the fourth was a shopper, Lt. Wayne Petersen said. A man was critically wounded, he said.
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LINDEN, Tenn. (AP) -- A line of powerful storms blew through western Tennessee, destroying homes, closing schools and damaging buildings in 30 counties. At least four people were killed. Two of the victims, a man and woman, died in a Linden home that was destroyed Wednesday night by winds, said Capt. Gary Rogers of the Perry County rescue service.
EL MONTE, Calif. (AP) -- A gunman shot a man to death today at a nightclub after an argument, then sprayed the booth where the victim was sitting with bullets and killed three of the five others seated there.
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PASO ROBLES, Calif. (AP) -- At least four people were killed Sunday in a fiery head-on collision on a section of Highway 46 that locals refer to as ``blood alley,'' officials said.
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Church gunman kills four, including wife, baby GONZALES, La. (AP) -- The pastor had just started reading a Bible lesson about being born again when the gunman kicked open the doors, fired twice into the ceiling and ordered everybody to hit the floor.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Lions attacked a refugee camp for famine victims in western Somalia, killing at least four people and wounding several others, an elder said Monday. The attack occurred Sunday in the village of El-Bardeh near the border with Ethiopia, 250 miles northwest of Mogadishu, Ugas Abdi Ugas Hussein Ugas Khalif said by radio from the village.
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FRESNO (AP) -- A man killed his three young sons, set their apartment on fire and then killed himself, police say. Blood stains on the sidewalk led police to the body of Vasily Petrovich Losev, 45, who was found in a vacant lot early Saturday, detective Al Murrietta said.
LONDON (Reuters) -- Four men died when a Royal Air Force jet and a light aircraft crashed after colliding over central England Thursday, police said. Debris was scattered over several fields after an RAF Tornado bomber hit a Cessna passenger light aircraft.
HONOBIA, Okla. (AP) -- Searchers found the wreckage of a small plane Monday with the bodies of a man and his three young sons who crashed in an Oklahoma forest while flying home to Arkansas.
SRINAGAR, India (AP) -- Indian troops today clashed with Pakistani soldiers who tried to seize a military post on a glacier in disputed Kashmir, killing four Pakistani soldiers, a news agency said.
ESCALON, Calif. (AP) -- A man and woman and two children died when a northbound freight train smashed into their aging sedan as it sat on the tracks at a rural crossing about 60 miles south of Sacramento.
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- Four people died and three were hurt when flames engulfed a board-and-care home early today, authorities said. One of the 18 residents was missing. ``We do have four confirmed fatalities and we're looking for one missing person,'' said Fire Department spokesman Tom Rubio.
GROZNY, Russia (AP) -- Chechen authorities today found the decapitated heads of four kidnapped foreigners near a remote village after a two-month search in the breakaway region in southern Russia.
RED WING, Minn. (Reuters) - A couple and two boys found dead over the weekend at their lakeside home were likely victims of a murder-suicide committed by the man believed to be the children's father, police said Monday.
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EMELLE, Ala. (AP) -- Four young children died in a fire that destroyed a dormitory at a rural religious compound whose leader has battled claims of child labor and other violations while stressing an ascetic, Christian life.
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TRACY, Calif. (AP) -- A driver who overcorrected after drifting off the shoulder of a rural road was killed along with three children when the car lost control and was broadsided by oncoming traffic, authorities said.