(12/06)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A fire at a Moscow drug clinic on Saturday killed 45 women patients and staff who were prevented from escaping by metal grilles, emergency services said.

(11/06)

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said 45 civilians were killed and 125 hurt on Wednesday when army artillery fire hit a camp for internally displaced, as renewed civil war deepens.

(7/06)

MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane crashed in fields on the outskirts of the central city of Multan on Monday, killing all 45 people on board, the local police chief said.

(4/06)

JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Up to 45 people are feared to have died after a bus skidded off a mountainous road in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday and plunged into a fast-moving river, a senior government official said.

(3/06)

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani helicopter gunships and ground forces killed around 45 mostly foreign fighters in an attack on a militant hideout near the Afghan border on Wednesday, the military said in a statement.

(6/05)

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The number of deaths in Kenya from a batch of illegal alcohol laced with methanol to boost its strength rose to 45 on Sunday, authorities said.

(5/05)

LOS ANGELES, Chile (Reuters) - Furious relatives of 45 soldiers feared frozen to death in the Chilean Andes raged at military officers on Saturday for leading dozens of ill-equipped teenage recruits into a blizzard.

(8/04)

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) - More than 45 people from the Dominican Republic died of dehydration and exposure when their boat drifted for two weeks at sea during a failed attempt to reach Puerto Rico, U.S. and Dominicans officials said on Wednesday.

KABUL (Reuters) - Between 40 and 50 suspected Taliban militants have been killed in heavy fighting with Afghan forces backed by U.S. attack helicopters and "tank buster" aircraft near the Pakistan border, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.

(9/02)

LAGOS (Reuters) - At least 45 charred bodies have been recovered from a Nigerian plastics factory gutted by a fire that trapped an entire night shift, rescue workers said on Wednesday.

(6/02)

KABUL (Reuters) - At least 45 returning Afghans were killed when a bus taking them home from neighboring Pakistan plunged into a river near Kabul, the U.N. High Commission for Refugees said on Saturday.

(2/02)

EBER, Turkey, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Hundreds of homeless huddled round fires and under blankets and plastic on a freezing night in western Turkey on Monday after a powerful earthquake struck, killing 45 people and injuring more than 170.

(1/02)

(Reuters) - A river of molten rock poured from a volcano in Congo on Friday, a day after it erupted, killing dozens of people, swallowing buildings whole and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee the town of Goma. U.N. officials estimated 45 people had died in the 24 hours since tongues of fiery lava began forking from Nyiragongo volcano through villages on its slopes, down through Goma itself and into Lake Kivu straddling the Rwandan border.

(12/99)

COLOMBIAN communist rebels have attacked a naval base on the border with Panama, killing 45 marines, it was reported yesterday. The hostilities came as America prepared for the official handover of the Panama Canal today after an occupation lasting almost a century.

(1/99)

PARIS (Reuters) -- President Jacques Chirac is rethinking France's policy on Kosovo following the massacre of 45 ethnic Albanians in the turbulent Serbian province, presidential aides said tonday. Chirac believes Paris must ``start all over again'' on policy for the region after the corpses of 45 people, most of them shot at close range, were found in the Kosovo village of Racak Saturday, the aides said.