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BIOCE, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - Police combed a wreckage-strewn ravine on Tuesday for passengers still missing from Montenegro's worst train accident, which killed 44 people when packed carriages plunged into a river gorge.

HEJCE, Hungary (Reuters) - A Slovak military plane crashed into a mountain in eastern Hungary on Thursday, killing 44 people, mostly peacekeepers from the NATO mission in Kosovo, Hungarian police said.

(6/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. air strikes killed an estimated 40 insurgents in western Iraq on Saturday, the military said, but in Baghdad a suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of an elite police unit, killing three.

(9/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents killed at least 44 people, most of them children, and wounded 200 with a series of car bombs across Iraq Thursday.

(4/04)

PADANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - At least 44 people were killed and five others were trapped after a landslide enveloped a bus and nearly swept it off a cliff in Indonesia's Sumatra island, a police officer said on Saturday.

(3/04)

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 44 people were killed when suspected Sunni Muslim radicals attacked rival Shi'ites with automatic rifles and grenades in Pakistan on Tuesday as the minority sect marked one of its holiest days.

(2/04)

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels killed at least 44 people on Thursday in a dawn raid on a camp for people fleeing fighting in the north of the country, a priest in the area said.

(12/02)

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Nine more bodies were found when rescue workers raised a crowded ferry that sank near the mouth of Brazil's Amazon Basin last week, bringing the death toll to 44, officials said.

(7/02)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A gas explosion at a coal mine in northeastern China killed 44 miners in the latest in a string of fatal accidents in the world's deadliest mining industry.

(8/01)

TOKYO (Reuters) - More than 150 investigators began a probe into the devastating fire in a crowded Tokyo nightlife district that killed 44 people early on Saturday. Authorities said they were focusing on a possible gas leak or an arson attack in the narrow building, located in the popular nightclub area of Shinjuku in central Tokyo.

(5/00)

JAKARTA, May 30 (Reuters) - Armed assailants have attacked two mainly Christian villages in Indonesia's bloodied spice islands, killing at least 44 people and injuring hundreds in the latest sectarian strife in the region, the military said on Tuesday.

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ALGIERS -- Algerian troops have killed 44 Moslem rebels in two provinces and recovered weapons guerrillas had snatched from soldiers they shot dead in an ambush, newspapers reported on Wednesday.