(3/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Up to six car bombs ripped through the east Baghdad stronghold of a major Shi'ite militia force on Sunday, killing 46 people, wounding 204 and raising fears reprisals could again pitch Iraq toward civil war.

(2/06)

GUINSAUGON, Philippines (Reuters) - The stench of death hung over a village of 1,800 people in the central Philippines on Saturday, a day after a torrent of mud and rock from a rain-soaked mountainside engulfed homes and a crowded school. Only 46 bodies and 57 survivors had been pulled from the reddish soil, with the chances "very, very slim" of anyone else being found alive, said Colonel Raul Farnacio, in charge of the army's relief operations.

(4/05)

LUSAKA (Reuters) - At least 46 people were killed Wednesday when a blast tore through an explosives factory at a Zambian copper mine, destroying the plant and ripping bodies apart, the country's mining minister said.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Clashes between suspected Maoist rebels and villagers in west Nepal have killed 46 people over recent weeks, the head of a state-funded human rights group said on Thursday.

(10/04)

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Separatist militants set off bombs and opened gunfire across India's northeast on Saturday, killing at least 46 people and wounding nearly a 100 in one of the bloodiest days in the troubled region.

(8/04)

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A bus plunged into a ravine in the mountainous northeast of El Salvador on Saturday, killing 46 people and injuring around 20, emergency services said.

(6/04)

SANAA, Yemen (Reuters) - Yemen said 46 followers of an anti-U.S. Muslim "extremist" cleric had been killed and 35 wounded in clashes with security forces in a siege in a mountainous area of the Arab country.

(11/03)

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers killed 46 Iraqis and captured eight trying to carry out a series of attempted ambushes on U.S. convoys in the central Iraqi city of Samarra on Sunday, a U.S. military spokesman said.

(8/03)

BOMBAY, India (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed at least 46 people in the heart of India's financial capital Monday, one ripping through a congested bullion market and a second exploding near a popular tourist attraction, police said.

(1/03)

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Rescue teams found the wreckage of a Tans Peru aircraft on Saturday, two days after it slammed into a hill in Peru's northern jungle, and established that all 46 people on board were killed, government ministers said.

(12/02)

(Reuters) - A Ukrainian passenger plane carrying aerospace experts crashed in Iran on Monday killing all 46 people on board, the Iranian transport minister said.

(11/02)

BEIJING (Reuters) - China executed 46 people in just two days last week following calls to intensify the fight against crime ahead of a pivotal Communist Party Congress, Amnesty International said Wednesday.

(8/01)

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops killed at least six Tamil Tiger guerrillas in a brief offensive in the country's north Sunday after a week of rebel attacks left more than 40 dead, military officials said.

(11/99)

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- At least 46 people were missing after an avalanche, possibly caused by volcanic activity, swept down a mountainside and buried several dozen homes in a remote village in Peru's northern Andes, officials said today.