(12/06)
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Nearly 40 people were killed in clashes between Chad's security forces and Arab raiders on horseback who attacked two eastern villages, burning homes and mutilating their victims, the government said on Tuesday.
(10/06)
ATHENS (Reuters) - A boat carrying illegal immigrants sank in bad weather off the coast of southern Greece on Tuesday and about 40 people were still missing, Greece's defense ministry said.
(8/06)
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli bombs killed at least 40 civilians in south Lebanon and Hizbollah launched its longest-range rocket attack of the war as world powers inched closer to a deal at the United Nations to end the fighting.
(7/06)
PARIS (Reuters) - Around 40 people in France, mostly elderly, have died in a heatwave over the past week and Czech energy grid operator CEPS announced a state of emergency on Tuesday after its power network was overloaded.
MAHMUDIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Over 40 people were killed in a car bomb attack and shooting at a crowded market in a violent town just outside Baghdad on Monday, police said.
(6/06)
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces have killed about 40 Taliban fighters as they gathered for a meeting in a compound as part of a major operation against the resurgent rebels in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese military transport plane with at least 40 people on board crashed during a mission in the eastern province of Anhui on Saturday afternoon, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday, citing a military source.
(3/06)
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - More than 40 African migrants heading for Spain's Canary Islands drowned at the weekend when their boats sank off the West African coast, Mauritania's Red Crescent organization said on Monday.
(12/05)
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 40 people have been confirmed killed by a fire aboard a bus in Pakistan sparked when a firecracker let off to celebrate a wedding set the vehicle's fuel tank alight, police said on Monday.
(10/05)
TECPAN, Guatemala (Reuters) - A huge mudslide engulfed dozens of homes in Guatemala's Maya Indian highlands, killing 40 people as rains and flash floods from Hurricane Stan devastated Central America and southern Mexico.
(8/05)
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's army said on Tuesday it had found the bodies of 40 soldiers killed fighting Maoist rebels while 76 other troops were still missing two days after a fierce gun battle in the west of the country.
(5/05)
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese rescuers found the bodies of 40 coal miners killed in a mine explosion last week, official media reported on Sunday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian troops killed up to 40 Chechen rebels in counter-terrorist operations in the Caucasus while Moscow hosted world leaders for celebrations marking victory in World War II, an army spokesman said on Thursday. Fearing a repeat of Chechen attacks aimed at past May 9 Victory Day parades, authorities introduced tough security measures across Russia before the arrival of more than 50 heads of state, including President Bush.
(2/05)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suicide attacks and car bombings aimed at mosques killed at least 27 Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq on Friday, raising fears of an outbreak of sectarian violence on the eve of the majority sect's most important religious ritual. Violence in other areas brought the death toll to around 40, making it the country's bloodiest day since elections on Jan. 30 shifted power to Shi'ites after decades of oppression under Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime.
MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in Pakistan on Thursday when a car bomb exploded at a rally to commemorate an assassinated militant religious leader, police said.
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Rescue workers struggled on Saturday to reach remote villages in Venezuela's Andean mountains cut off by torrential rains and landslides that have killed more than 40 people in nearly a week.
(11/04)
ZAKHU, Iraq (Reuters) - Up to 40 people were swept away and drowned as they tried to cross a swollen river in the far north of Iraq Tuesday, families of the victims said.
(10/04)
MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in Pakistan on Thursday when a car bomb exploded at a rally to commemorate an assassinated militant religious leader, police said.
(8/04)
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. tanks rumbled to within 800 meters (yards) of a holy shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday as fierce clashes with Shi'ite rebels in a nearby town killed at least 40 Iraqis, officials said.
(6/04)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Twin car bomb blasts killed 40 people south of Baghdad in a fresh attempt to derail the transition to an Iraqi government in three days, the U.S. military said Sunday.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - At least 40 people were killed when a bus plunged into a river on Wednesday near the Pakistani capital Islamabad, police and rescue workers said.
(5/04)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it killed around 40 people in an attack on suspected foreign fighters in Iraq near the Syrian border on Wednesday, but disputed reports the victims were members of a wedding party.
(4/04)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five U.S. soldiers were among more than 40 people killed in a spate of attacks in Iraq on Saturday, the latest violence in the bloodiest month for U.S.-led forces since they toppled Saddam Hussein.
OSINNIKI, Russia (Reuters) - The death toll from a gas blast at a Siberian colliery rose to 40 on Sunday, officials said, and hopes for the survival of seven more missing miners dimmed as rescuers dug with their bare hands to reach them.
(3/04)
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerians stayed away from local council polls on Saturday after at least 40 people were killed in a two days of violence, undermining confidence in the country's five-year-old democracy.
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani families living near the Afghan border fled their homes Wednesday, fearful of fresh clashes between paramilitary forces and suspected al Qaeda militants being sheltered by local tribesmen. At least 16 soldiers and 24 rebels were killed in fierce fighting Tuesday involving assault rifles, machineguns, light artillery and rockets, in the latest operation in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt to flush out al Qaeda militants.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow's mayor said there was no hope of finding any more survivors in the freezing wreckage of a Moscow water park on Sunday where about 40 people were feared killed by a roof that collapsed on bathers.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - At least 40 people were feared drowned after their boat capsized in Lake Albert in western Uganda, police said Tuesday.
(10/03)
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - At least 40 people, including 37 Maoist rebels, were killed when the guerrillas attacked a police post in western Nepal, ending a Hindu festival truce, officials said on Saturday.
(8/03)
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Forty people were feared dead after a bus plunged into a flooded river in northern India on Saturday, officials said.
KABUL (Reuters) - More Taliban fighters were killed on Thursday as a major operation by Afghan soldiers backed by U.S.-led forces and aircraft to find hundreds of guerrillas entered its fourth day, officials and news reports said. The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) agency quoted Afghan Colonel Qudratullah as saying he saw around 40 bodies on the battlefield in the Tangi Chinaran area of Dai Chopan district, part of Zabul province where the fighting has raged.
(11/02)
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali soldiers blocked escape routes of Maoist rebels on Saturday after a fierce overnight gun battle in the remote west of the country that newspapers said killed more than 40 guerrillas.
(6/02)
KAMPALA (Reuters) - About 40 people were feared drowned when a boat capsized on Lake Victoria, flinging passengers into waves and darkness as an overnight storm raged on Africa's biggest lake, Ugandan police said on Saturday.
(6/01)
PALGHAT, India -- Three cars of a passenger train plunged off a bridge into a river in southern India on Friday, reportedly killing more than 40 people and injuring more than 200, officials and news reports said.
(9/00)
LAGOS (Reuters) - A bus rammed into a stationary gasoline tanker truck on a Nigerian highway Friday, killing 40 passengers and wounding 15, Nigerian state television reported. The accident happened at dawn at Kabbah junction as the coach traveled to the inland capital Abuja, from the eastern city of Owerri.
(6/00)
JAKARTA, June 5 (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake and several strong aftershocks hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra overnight, killing at least 40 people and injuring hundreds, officials and local media said on Monday.
(3/00)
CHATI SINGHPURA, India -- Gunmen lined up and fatally shot 40 Sikh villagers in India's disputed northern territory of Kashmir, police said today, casting a pall over the start of President Clinton's visit to the country.