(12/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - NATO and Afghan forces have killed about 50 Taliban fighters in the past few days in an operation in southern Afghanistan, an alliance spokesman said on Wednesday.

HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) - Typhoon Durian swept southern Vietnam with strong winds and heavy rains on Tuesday, killing at least 50 people, sinking hundreds of fishing boats and damaging houses, days after it battered the Philippines.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Police found some 50 bodies with gunshot wounds in Baghdad over the past day, an Interior Ministry source said on Monday, a day after U.N. chief Kofi Annan declared Iraq's plight as worse than civil war.

(10/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - NATO troops have killed almost 50 Taliban guerrillas and several civilians in fighting in the Islamist group's southern heartland, witnesses and alliance officials said on Wednesday.

KABUL (Reuters) - NATO warplanes killed at least 50 civilians, mostly women and children, in bombing in southern Afghanistan during a major Islamic holiday, local leaders said on Thursday.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - At least 50 soldiers from the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army drowned in southern Sudan after two steamboats collided on the Nile, state media and a southern official said on Thursday.

(8/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombers killed nearly 50 Iraqis on Wednesday, mostly in Baghdad, but the top U.S. commander said a security drive in the capital was making progress and local forces could largely be running Iraq within 12 to 18 months.

KANTALE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said on Thursday more than 50 civilians were killed and 200 wounded in their territory in the island's east during a major army offensive to capture a disputed water supply.

(7/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed over 50 people in an attack around a crowded market in a violent town near Baghdad on Monday, one of the bloodiest incidents in Iraq this year.

(5/06)

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Terrified Mogadishu residents hid in their homes from flying bullets in the battered capital on Thursday as fierce fighting between rival militias killed at least 50 people, witnesses said.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A heatwave has killed at least 50 people in Pakistan since the start of May, prompting authorities to warn people to stay out of the midday sun as temperatures cross 50 Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in the shade.

(11/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The death toll from a suicide car bomb attack on the funeral of a Shi'ite sheikh rose to at least 50 from 35, doctors said on Sunday, as the number killed in a spate of attacks over the past two days rose to 150.

(10/05)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Three powerful bombs tore through New Delhi markets packed with families and shoppers on Saturday ahead of the biggest Hindu and Muslim festivals of the year, killing more than 50 people and wounding scores.

MANILA (Reuters) - About 50 people were feared dead in the Philippines when a tunnel in a gold mine collapsed after a blast, police said on Thursday.

(7/05)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces killed up to 50 Taliban fighters in central Afghanistan, a provincial governor said on Tuesday after the latest burst of violence in the run-up to crucial September elections.

(5/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb at a restaurant in northern Baghdad caused more than 50 casualties Monday, Iraqi police said.

(4/05)

COLOMBO (Reuters) - More than 50 people were feared dead and some 40 injured after a passenger train crashed into a commuter bus at a level-crossing in central Sri Lanka on Wednesday, police said.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali soldiers killed at least 50 Maoist rebels in a deadly overnight clash, the army said on Friday, as around 500 political activists were reported arrested by police during pro-democracy rallies in the kingdom.

(3/05)

BUNIA, Congo (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers killed at least 50 militiamen in a gunfight in northeastern Congo on Tuesday, five days after nine Bangladeshi U.N. troops were killed there, the United Nations said Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (Reuters) - At least 50 Maoist rebels have been killed in a gunbattle with Nepali soldiers, the army said Tuesday, in the deadliest fighting since King Gyanendra seized power last month in the world's only Hindu kingdom.

(10/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it killed an ally of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in an overnight air raid on Falluja on Tuesday, as the Iraqi government investigated how Zarqawi's group managed to kill 49 unarmed army recruits.

(9/04)

LAGOS (Reuters) - Dozens of people were killed in a petroleum pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, police said Friday. "The death count is less than 50, just a few dozen people. We are still fishing out bodies from the surrounding water area," said police spokesman Emmanuel Ighodalo.

WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani jet fighters and helicopter gunships pounded a suspected terrorist training camp near the Afghan border on Thursday, killing at least 50 mostly foreign militants.

(8/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. army killed about 50 insurgents in a series of operations near the Iraqi town of Samarra Saturday, the military said in a statement.

(4/04)

NAIROBI (Reuters) - At least 50 people have died and many more were missing in floods after torrential rains pounded Djibouti this week, aid workers said on Friday.

(2/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed about 50 people at a police station near Baghdad, one of the deadliest strikes on Iraqis working with U.S. forces, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said it was impossible to prevent all such attacks.

(11/03)

HANOI (Reuters) - Life began to return to normal in parts of central and southern Vietnam Saturday after days of flooding killed at least 50 people, crippled transport and stopped the coffee harvest in a key region.

(8/03)

KABUL (Reuters) - Up to 50 Taliban fighters were killed in a big air and ground operation by U.S. and Afghan forces against hundreds of guerrillas Monday in the southern province of Zabul, a spokesman for the governor said.

(2/03)

BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Nearly 50 people have been killed in Congo Republic by a spreading outbreak of suspected Ebola virus thought to be linked to the consumption of infected monkey meat, health authorities said on Wednesday.

WARRI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Youths went on the rampage in Nigeria's oil city of Warri overnight, killing perhaps dozens of members of the security forces and setting dozens of homes and offices ablaze, witnesses said.

(12/02)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Fighting between Marxist rebels and right-wing paramilitary outlaws in northern Colombia has killed at least 50 people, most of them rightist militias, the army said on Friday.

(11/02)

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - The naked body of a young man lies on an Abidjan pavement, his hands tied behind his back and a single bullet hole between his shoulders. Human rights groups say at least 50 people have been murdered and many others abducted by shadowy death squads since rebels failed to take Abidjan during a September 19 coup attempt which plunged the world's top cocoa grower into war.

RABAT (Reuters) - A top government official on Saturday blamed the deaths of 50 inmates in Morocco's worst prison fire on toxic fumes from inflammable mattresses and the guards' delay in helping prisoners escape the flames.

(9/02)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - A bus packed with Roman Catholic pilgrims careened off a road and plunged over a cliff in northern Argentina, killing at least 50 people, including many children, police said on Monday.

(8/02)

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - At least 50 soldiers and civilians were killed in a battle between ethnic Tajiks and Pashtuns in western Afghanistan on Thursday, an Afghan news agency quoted one of the factions as saying.

(6/02)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Floods raging through Russia's southern fringes have killed more than 50 people, left an unknown number missing and made tens of thousands homeless, emergency officials said on Monday.

(1/02)

(AP) - Lava flows from a volcanic eruption ignited a gas station, killing about 50 people who were trying to siphon fuel from the elevated tanks, witnesses said. A massive fireball erupted at 8:30 a.m., leaving a huge black cloud over Goma more than 11/2 hours later.

(3/01)

MIAMI (Reuters) - Hopes were fading on Saturday of finding more survivors among about 50 people missing and feared dead after two boats carrying illegal migrants, most of them from the Dominican Republic, sank this week in separate incidents in the Caribbean.

(10/00)

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A Lagos-bound bus slammed into a gasoline tanker parked along a highway in eastern Nigeria, causing an enormous fireball that consumed the bus and killed at least 50 people, news reports said Thursday.

(5/00)

DILI, East Timor (AP) -- Floods washed away refugee camps along the border between East Timor and the Indonesian-controlled western half of the island, killing at least 50 people, U.N. officials said today.

(1/00)

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Army units backed by helicopter gunships chased rebels into a mountainous zone south of Bogota on Sunday, a day after the heaviest fighting in months killed at least 50 people.

(12/98)

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The death toll in the explosion of an illegal fireworks factory in northeastern Brazil rose to 50 Tuesday, and officials said the count could go higher since many victims suffered serious burns.

(9/98)

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Two busloads of religious pilgrims and a diesel truck crashed in a fiery highway accident in southeastern Brazil Tuesday, killing at least 50 people and leaving 30 others injured, authorities said.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Hospital officials reported as many as 50 dead in Sunday's attack, but the death toll could be higher because Afghans bury their dead immediately and seldom take bodies to a hospital.

MASERU, Lesotho (AP) -- At least 10 South African soldiers and 40 rebels were killed in Tuesday's fighting, which surprised the South Africans with its ferocity. Seventeen more South African soldiers were wounded in the combat -- South Africa's first military intervention since the end of apartheid.