(11/06)

VALACHCHENAI, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees fled their camp in rebel territory in the island's east on Thursday, survivors said, a day after the army bombed the location killing dozens of civilians.

(10/06)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dozens of Russians have died and more than 1,000 received hospital treatment in a wave of alcohol poisoning that is sweeping the country, Russian authorities said on Saturday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police found 50 bodies dumped across Baghdad on Tuesday, apparent victims of sectarian death squads, and a bombing at a bakery in the capital killed 10 people in the biggest single attack of the day.

(9/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - Dozens of Taliban insurgents have been killed in the latest clashes in the Afghan south where foreign and government forces have been engaged in fierce combat in recent weeks.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Police recovered 60 bodies over the past day across Baghdad, most bound and tortured, officials said on Wednesday, highlighting how sectarian death squads are still plaguing the Iraqi capital despite a major security drive.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's navy sank 12 Tamil Tiger craft overnight in a fierce naval battle off the island's northern tip, the military said on Saturday, adding it believed it had killed dozens of rebel fighters.

(8/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A spate of car bombings and shootings across Iraq killed about 60 people on Sunday, but Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said violence was on the decrease and that the country would never slide into a civil war.

TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's civil war appeared to have resumed in all but name on Wednesday as Tamil Tigers attacked three army camps and pushed into government territory while the military said dozens of rebels were killed.

(7/06)

KUFA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 59 people in a crowded Iraqi market on Tuesday after luring Shi'ite day laborers aboard his minivan with an offer of casual work.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Fighting surged in Mogadishu on Monday between Islamist militias and fighters loyal to the city's last warlords, pushing the death toll over two days to at least 60 and pounding a key hospital with artillery and gunfire.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden appeared to warn Iraq's majority Shi'ite Muslims they were not safe from al Qaeda's new leader in the country after a car bomb devastated a Baghdad market on Saturday, killing more than 60 people.

(3/06)

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities further eased an eight-day-old curfew in the capital of a tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Sunday after soldiers killed dozens of Islamist militants in air and ground attacks. The military said security forces killed up to 30 pro-Taliban foreign militants and their local supporters in a village about 10 km (six miles) west of Miranshah, capital of the North Waziristan tribal area, on Friday night.

(2/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Attacks in Baghdad, including a car bomb near a Shi'ite mosque, killed at least 60 people on Tuesday and U.S. President George W. Bush told Iraqis who fear civil war that they faced a choice between "chaos or unity".

(1/06)

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Separate clashes between rival militias have killed dozens of people in Somalia, highlighting insecurity in the country which has been without a functioning government since 1991, residents said on Friday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber caused carnage at a Shi'ite funeral and guerrillas ambushed a vital fuel convoy outside Baghdad in a wave of attacks that killed nearly 60 people on Wednesday, the bloodiest day in Iraq for weeks.

(11/05)

KINSHASA (Reuters) - At least 60 people were killed when they were swept off the roof of a train into the river below as the train crossed a bridge in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said on Tuesday.

AMMAN (Reuters) - Three suspected suicide bombers struck at three international hotels in Jordan's capital Amman, killing 57 people and wounding 110, and security officials said on Thursday they believed al Qaeda was responsible.

KARACHI (Reuters) - A passenger ferry believed to have been overloaded sank in southern Pakistan on Friday drowning at least 60 people, including children, government officials said.

(7/05)

ISLAMABAD/KABUL (Reuters) - U.S., Afghan and Pakistani forces have killed more than 60 suspected foreign militants and Taliban insurgents during the past three days in a series of clashes in restive tribal lands in the North-West Frontier region, military officials said on Sunday.

(5/05)

ANDIZHAN, Uzbekistan (Reuters) - A bloody military operation to disperse rebels and thousands of protesters who had seized a state building in the eastern Uzbek town of Andizhan killed dozens, a witness said on Saturday.

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban rebels have suffered heavy losses after launching attacks in southern Afghanistan with the U.S. military saying Thursday about 60 insurgents have been killed in two battles in recent days.

ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck the offices of a Kurdish party in northern Iraq on Wednesday and the U.S. military said the blast killed about 60 people only a week after a new government promising stability was formed.

(9/04)

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes launched fresh air strikes overnight around the rebel-held city of Falluja, killing about 60 foreign fighters loyal to Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the U.S. military said on Friday.

(2/04)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombia's army clashed with leftist rebels and far-right paramilitary gunmen in separate battles over the weekend that left 60 dead, one of the highest body counts in months, the army said on Sunday.

(12/03)

ANKARA (Reuters) - Around 60 people were feared drowned after a boat carrying would-be migrants sank off Turkey, coastguards said on Sunday.

MANILA (Reuters) - Rains and strong winds hampered the search on Sunday for 114 people believed missing after landslides and a tornado struck Leyte island in the central Philippines, officials said. At least 60 have been confirmed dead in the landslides that hit the mountainous areas of Leyte on Friday, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) in Manila said.

(11/03)

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Rebels shot and hacked to death scores of civilians in northern Uganda on Thursday night and Friday morning, beheading some of them, in apparent revenge for the killing of a rebel commander, the army said on Saturday. The Vatican missionary news service said rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) killed about 60 people on a rampage through Lira district, forcing some villagers to watch as they beheaded the corpses of fellow villagers they had just killed.

(10/03)

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - More than 60 Afghan fighters have been killed or wounded in one of the worst outbreaks of fighting between pro-government factions since the Taliban fell almost two years ago, a faction official said.

KABUL (Reuters) - Dozens of people were reported killed or wounded in fighting on Wednesday between pro-government factions in northern Afghanistan as a deal was signed on a key U.N.-backed plan to demobilize warlord armies.

(12/02)

MONROVIA, Liberia (Reuters) - At least 60 people drowned and many more were feared dead after an overloaded ferry carrying 200 passengers back from a funeral capsized in the West African country of Liberia, officials said.

(11/02)

ANKARA (Reuters) - Two Turkish inmates who had refused solid food for months died at the weekend, the latest deaths in a long-running hunger strike to protest prison conditions that has resulted in least 60 lives.

(8/02)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A lake the size of Luxembourg edged closer to bursting its banks on Wednesday, threatening to engulf millions of people in southern China. Heavy rains continue to drench parts of Asia, bringing the death toll since July to nearly 2,000, including 60 people killed on Wednesday when a landslide swept away a village in Nepal. In neighboring India, at least 25 people were washed away after a dam burst.

(7/02)

KAMPALA, Uganda (Reuters) - At least 60 people, including 10 foreign tourists, were killed in Uganda Thursday when a fuel truck and a bus collided and burst into flames, police said.

(6/02)

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Intense fighting in eastern Myanmar between government troops and ethnic guerrillas has killed dozens and threatens to spill over into neighboring Thailand, military sources said on Thursday.

(5/02)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Maoist guerrillas and government forces in Nepal fought a pitched battle that killed scores overnight, as President Bush offered aid to the Himalayan kingdom.

(2/02)

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - At least 60 people were feared dead as Hindu mobs went on the rampage in western India in reprisal for a train attack and the army was called in to halt the spiraling violence.

(1/02)

LAGOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Dozens of people have been killed in ethnic clashes in Lagos, residents said Sunday, just a week after an ammunition dump fire caused more than 1,000 deaths in Nigeria's biggest city.

(9/99)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- A Boeing 737 jetliner hurtled through an airline fence and crashed in flames during takeoff, killing dozens of people aboard after hopscotching a busy boulevard near this downtown airport.

(7/99)

DRAS, India (AP) -- The Indian army recaptured a towering peak close to the frontier with Pakistan today in a fierce battle that claimed dozens of lives, officers said. Infantrymen clambered up the 15,500-foot peak and stormed 13 guerrilla positions on the mountain three miles from the Line of Control, the 1972 cease-fire line dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan.