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SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Nearly 500 people were killed by firearms during one week in Sao Paulo state last month, more than double the normal rate, medical examiners said on Monday as part of an inquiry into allegations that police used excessive force to quell gang violence in Brazil's richest state.

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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Laborers digging on a construction site in northern Iraq uncovered human skulls and bones on Tuesday, which interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said were part of a mass grave believed to contain some 500 bodies.

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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's Maoist rebels have vowed to continue raids on government targets despite suffering a bloody setback that left around 500 of their fighters dead.

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DHAKA (Reuters) - A ferry carrying about 500 passengers sank in a storm in southern Bangladesh overnight and officials fear hundreds may have died or been swept away by strong river currents.

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GARDEZ, Afghanistan/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces said on Wednesday they had inflicted a bloody toll on al Qaeda and Taliban fighters as both sides reinforced a bitter battle in the snow-covered mountains of eastern Afghanistan. In the Afghan capital of Kabul, two German and three Danish peacemakers died in an accident while destroying munitions. The U.S. military ordered up to 300 extra troops, 17 attack helicopters and several A-10 aircraft with rapid fire cannon and rockets to the battlefield to counter a flow of fresh al Qaeda and Taliban fighters who joined the fight. In what has developed into the biggest battle of the campaign, the U.S. military said up to 500 of about 1,000 rebels, including some high-ranking leaders, were killed in five days of fighting and at least eight Americans and seven Afghan allies had died.

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(Reuters) - More than 500 bodies of drowned people were retrieved from canals in Lagos Monday after explosions from a burning military arms depot triggered panic in Nigeria's biggest city, witnesses and officials said. "I have counted more than 60 bodies here. Ambulances and families have taken away more than 200 from this canal alone," a witness said at the Oke-Afa canal near the devastated Ikeja military barracks.

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The CNN clip showed the man appearing dirty, with a long beard and grimacing as if in pain as he answered questions from a stretcher. He survived the harrowing prison uprising that left one American CIA operative and hundreds of Taliban captives dead.

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Chechen rebels resist Russian attacks in Grozny // Ugudov told Ekho Moskvy radio that 300 to 1,000 civilians were killed last week as a result of fighting in Grozny. The Chechens say there are about 40,000 civilians trapped in Grozny, many of them elderly and sick. // Udugov said up to 200 Russian soldiers had been killed in recent battles across Chechnya. Tass quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying only four Russian soldiers had died in the latest fighting and about 30 rebel fighters had been killed.

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ROME (Reuters) -- Congolese rebels massacred at least 500 civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between December 30 and January 1, the editor of a Roman Catholic missionary news service said on Tuesday.

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WARRI, Nigeria, Oct 19 (Reuters) - At least 500 people have died in an inferno which engulfed hundreds of people scavenging for petrol from a burst pipeline in southern Nigeria, witnesses said on Monday.