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(2/06)

SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico (Reuters) - The 65 men trapped by a Mexican coal mine explosion six days ago cannot possibly have survived their ordeal underground and are all dead, mine owners said on Saturday.


(7/05)

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Sixty-five people including four children were shot or hacked to death in violence triggered by a murderous cattle rustling raid on a remote northern Kenyan village, police said on Wednesday.


(5/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents killed three U.S. soldiers and two Iraqis in car bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday, a day after a wave of suicide attacks and bomb blasts that killed at least 60 people.


(4/05)

BHOPAL, India (Reuters) - At least 65 Hindu pilgrims in central India who had come for a dip in a holy river were drowned and dozens were missing after a dam upstream released water for power generation, officials said on Monday.


(12/04)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A landslide destroyed 25 village houses in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou on Friday and 65 villagers, asleep at the time, were missing, Xinhua news agency said.


(2/04)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, facing anarchy and food shortages as rebels closed in on the capital, tried on Saturday to rein in his armed loyalists who have terrorized the city. At least 65 people have been killed during the revolt against Aristide, accused of corruption and political thuggery by foes. The toll is likely higher, aid workers say.


(10/03)

KINSHASA (Reuters) - The known death toll from a new massacre in northeastern Congo has risen to 65 people, including 40 children, United Nations officials said on Tuesday. A U.N. spokesman said the dead were all victims of an attack on Monday in the remote village of Katshelli, which U.N. troops visited on Tuesday.


(5/02)

BARISAL, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Rescuers using fishing nets have found five bodies and about 60 other people were missing, feared drowned, after a two-year-old river ferry sank in a storm in Bangladesh, police said Friday.


(12/01)

(Reuters) - U.S. military AC-130 gunships and Navy jet fighters attacked and destroyed a convoy in Afghanistan believed to be carrying Taliban leadership, Pentagon officials said on Friday. But reports from the region said U.S. warplanes had bombed a convoy of Afghan tribal elders on their way to Kabul to attend the inauguration of the interim government, killing about 65 people, after locals misinformed the U.S. military.


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