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BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - British forces killed seven gunmen and blew up the headquarters of the police serious crimes unit in southern Basra on Monday in a raid to rescue prisoners who were about to be killed, the British military said.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Fighting between Darfur rebels and government forces near the northern town of Kutum has killed seven people and insurgents said on Sunday they shot down two army helicopters in the area.
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Seven Afghans were killed and several wounded on Thursday in two separate bomb blasts, police said.
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KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition troops clashed with Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan on Friday, killing seven of the militants, the U.S. military said.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai military Lear jet crashed as it took off to survey a route for an air race in central Thailand on Wednesday, killing all seven people, the Air Force said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed seven people and wounded 45 when it ripped through a crowded market in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City district on Thursday, an interior ministry source said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad and four Marines were killed in "enemy action" in Iraq's western Anbar province on Thursday, the U.S. military said on Friday.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians, including at least three gunmen, and wounded about 20 people in fighting in the Gaza Strip on Monday, Palestinian officials said.
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Seven Pakistani nationals were killed by soldiers in two separate incidents in northern and western India as they attempted to illegally cross from Pakistan, security officials said on Sunday.
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - A bomb blast killed seven people, mostly children, on Tuesday near a park in Diyarbakir, the largest city of Turkey's restive, mainly Kurdish southeast region.
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LEXINGTON, Kentucky (Reuters) - A small plane crashed on Monday in rugged southeastern Kentucky and killed all seven people aboard, a day after Sunday's fatal airliner crash in Lexington, Kentucky, aviation authorities said.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft fired rockets at a convoy of hundreds of cars carrying people fleeing southern Lebanon on Friday, killing at least seven and wounding 36, witnesses and medical sources said.
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes killed seven people and wounded one in northern Lebanon on Friday, medical sources said.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan air force jets killed seven Tamil Tiger fighters and injured many more in a fourth day of aerial bombings on Saturday in a bid to wrest control of a reservoir in the restive east, the rebels said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed seven Palestinians including a three-year-old girl in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday in two separate attacks.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Gunmen have killed up to seven people at an election rally in eastern Congo in an attack which revived fears that violence could disrupt the country's historic polls later this month, officials said on Tuesday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft and tanks killed seven Palestinians in clashes with gunmen across the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, drawing European Union accusations that the Jewish state was using excessive force.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Seven Chinese children died when the wall of a sports center collapsed during a storm, a newspaper said on Monday.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Six al Qaeda-linked militants and one policeman were killed in a shootout in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Friday, Saudi officials and media said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in a crowded Baghdad market on Tuesday, killing seven people and wounding 18, police said.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Police caught one suspect on Friday and sought at least one other in the slayings of seven members of one family, including three young boys, in an Indiana robbery that turned violent.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Five Afghan police shot dead seven fellow officers as they slept, before defecting to join Taliban guerrillas fighting in southern Afghanistan, a provincial official said on Monday.
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JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians including a leading Islamic Jihad militant on Sunday in the bloodiest fighting in weeks in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli military official and Palestinian sources said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Five armed insurgents, one police officer and a bystander were killed on Wednesday in separate clashes near Russia's turbulent Chechnya region, local media reported.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's army said it killed seven suspected Tamil Tigers after an attack on a checkpoint on Thursday, while the rebels raised new objections to a government plan aimed at ending the deadlock over peace talks.
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NAGAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani forces targeted an Egyptian al Qaeda member in an overnight helicopter attack on a hideout near the Afghan border, and officials said on Thursday there was a good chance he was among 7 militants killed.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least seven people and wounding 22, police said.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - A three-year-old child killed by a stray bullet raised to seven on Friday the death toll from days of clashes between riot police and Kurdish protesters in Turkey's troubled southeast, Turkish media said.
TBILISI (Reuters) - Seven prisoners were killed in Georgia on Monday when riot police used firearms to put down a rebellion by inmates trying to break out of a jail in the capital, the Justice Ministry said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A rocket blasted a commercial building in Baghdad, killing at least seven people and wounding 30 others, Iraqi police officials said on Monday.
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A man fatally shot six people at a party in a Seattle home on Saturday before killing himself with a pistol-grip shotgun after being confronted by police, authorities said.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants blew up a police vehicle in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing seven people, including three policeman and three paramilitary troops, officials said.
IMPHAL, India (Reuters) - Seven people, including a civilian caught in crossfire, were killed in gunbattles between rebels and Indian troops in the troubled northeastern state of Manipur on Saturday, police said.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian militants said on Thursday they killed seven soldiers in a firefight during an attack by the army in the southern Niger Delta, and threatened reprisals against the military and oil company Royal Dutch Shell.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Leftist rebels burst into a hotel and sprayed gunfire at a meeting of town council members in southwestern Colombia on Monday, killing at least seven local officials, police said.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The bodies of seven people executed in what appeared to be a gruesome settling of accounts among drug gangs were found on Wednesday in Mexico's Veracruz state, the latest victims in a wave of drug-related violence.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two car bombs exploded in Baghdad on Thursday, killing seven Iraqis and wounding 16, police said.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Some seven people were killed in southern Sudan in clashes between renegade armed militias and the south Sudan army, despite a 2005 peace deal to end Africa's longest civil war there, officials said on Monday.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Seven people were killed and three others seriously injured on Wednesday when a school bus, a van and a tractor-trailer collided in north Florida, a police dispatcher said.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Seven Czech climbers were killed on Saturday when an avalanche overwhelmed their camp in the Tatra Mountains of northern Slovakia, the local news agency TASR reported.
PALU, Indonesia (Reuters) - A bomb packed with nails exploded in a crowded Christian market selling pork ahead of New Year celebrations in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding 45, police said.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger rebels killed seven Sri Lankan soldiers in a mine blast on Tuesday, the second such attack in three days, the government said, sparking fears of a return to a civil war that has killed tens of thousands.
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JABALYA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israel killed seven Palestinians, most of them militants, in a Gaza Strip air strike on Thursday, hours after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered a broad offensive in response to a suicide bombing.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Five villagers and two militants were killed overnight in southern Thailand when Muslim separatist insurgents launched about 50 raids on remote villages in the restive region, the army said on Thursday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A stairway stampede at a Chinese primary school killed seven children and injured 37, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least six people and wounded 14 outside Iraq's oil ministry on Monday, police and interior ministry sources said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban gunmen ambushed Afghan police in the troubled south of the country and seven insurgents were killed in the battle, police said on Saturday, the eve of landmark elections.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Seven American Marines have been killed in fighting in Iraq's western Anbar province, the guerrilla heartland which keeps challenging U.S. and Iraqi troops despite repeated security crackdowns.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed six people and wounded 14 when he drove a car at a police patrol in the Ghazaliya district of western Baghdad on Wednesday, police and Interior Ministry sources said.
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HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded at an Iraqi police checkpoint south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing seven people and wounding 12, police said.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese troops and helicopters killed seven civilians and wounded about 10 in attacks on villages in the western Darfur region, the rebel commander of the area told Reuters on Monday.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Bandits killed seven Iranian policeman and wounded nine in a gun battle on the country's lawless southeastern borders, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.
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KABUL (Reuters) - A truckload of munitions exploded in northern Afghanistan at the weekend, killing five Afghan civilians and two German soldiers from the NATO-led peacekeeping force, officials said on Sunday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb attack on a U.S. Marine vehicle in the city of Falluja killed six American troops in one of the deadliest single assaults on U.S. ground forces in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Friday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chechen rebels killed seven Russian police in an attack near the mountainous south of the region, Russian officials were quoted as saying on Friday.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Six separatist guerrillas and a soldier were killed on Thursday in a fierce gun battle in troubled Indian Kashmir, police said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two suicide car bombs exploded outside a joint U.S.-Iraqi military base near the northern town of Sinjar on Saturday, killing five people and wounding at least 45, a hospital official said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Gunmen ambushed a vehicle and killed six Afghans on Thursday, including two who worked for a U.S. firm and were transporting the body of a co-worker killed in an attack a day earlier, Afghan and U.S. officials said.
HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Police shot dead six opposition party supporters on Friday in India's southern Andhra Pradesh state, sparking a riot in which hundreds of political activists stoned to death a policeman and burned cars and trucks.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - An explosion killed at least seven people at a soccer stadium in Somalia's capital on Tuesday, just moments after the prime minister had addressed hundreds of supporters, government officials and witnesses said.
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LOME (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed in clashes between rival political supporters in Togo's capital this weekend, a rights group and party officials said, as fear gripped an edgy city ahead of presidential polls next Sunday.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq said on Sunday seven suicide bombers spearheaded its brazen overnight raid on Abu Ghraib prison that wounded 44 U.S. soldiers, according to an Internet statement.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomber killed seven people and wounded nine in Iraq on Monday near a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims traveling to an annual religious ceremony.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraqi militant group Army of Ansar al-Sunna said it shot dead seven abducted Iraqi National Guards and posted an Internet video of the killings on Saturday.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Sudanese cargo plane crashed outside the capital Khartoum Thursday, killing one Sudanese and six people from former Soviet states in eastern Europe, Civil Aviation Minister Ali Tamim Fartak said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian troops stormed an apartment block and killed seven suspected Islamic militants on Thursday, ending a three-day siege in Nalchik, a town in the Caucasus region close to Chechnya.
KOH SAMUI, Thailand (Reuters) - A speed boat packed with tourists heading to the Thai island of Koh Samui after an all-night beach party capsized Tuesday, killing at least seven people, including several Westerners, police said.
MANILA (Reuters) - At least seven people, including the police chief of the province of Aklan, were killed and 30 wounded on Sunday when a gunman opened fire at a religious festival in the central Philippines, police authorities said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Seven U.S. soldiers were killed Thursday when their Bradley Fighting Vehicle hit an explosive device on a road in northwestern Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - The moderate frontrunner in the race for Palestinian president called Israel the "Zionist enemy" Tuesday after an Israeli tank killed seven Palestinian youths in a Gaza strawberry field.
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BAIJI, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed seven people, five of them Iraqi National Guards, near the northern town of Baiji Friday, as the insurgent campaign to wreck the Jan. 30 election gave no sign of a New Year lull.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Seven U.S. Marines were killed in two separate incidents west of Baghdad Sunday, the U.S. military said in a statement Monday.
BAIJI, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb in a crowded market north of Baghdad killed at least seven civilians and wounded 18 Tuesday as a U.S. military patrol passed by.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Guards shot and killed seven prisoners during a riot at Haiti's national penitentiary on Wednesday, police said.
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BAIJI, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb in a crowded market north of Baghdad killed at least seven civilians and wounded 18 Tuesday as a U.S. military patrol passed by.
GRETZENBACH, Switzerland (Reuters) - Seven Swiss fire-fighters were presumed dead on Saturday after they were trapped under the collapsed roof of a burning underground car park.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China declared martial law in part of a central province after at least seven people were killed, 42 injured and numerous houses set ablaze in clashes between minority Muslims and Han Chinese, officials said on Monday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb at the office of Al Arabiya television in Baghdad killed seven Iraqis on Saturday in the biggest attack yet on media in the country.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded on Sunday outside a Baghdad cafe used by Iraqi police killing seven people and wounding 20, the U.S. military said.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Ghanaian-registered Boeing 747 cargo jet crashed and burned on take off from Halifax airport in eastern Canada on Thursday, killing all seven crew on board, police said.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police said on Tuesday they were investigating a suspected group suicide involving seven people who met through the Internet, the latest in a rash of suicides linked to the Web.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians, including five militants, in Gaza on Saturday as the army pressed on with a massive offensive aimed at stopping militants firing rockets into Israel.
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KAMMENA VOURLA, Greece (Reuters) - A bus carrying school students and teachers to the Athens Paralympic Games collided with a truck in central Greece on Monday killing at least seven people and injuring 24, officials said.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. aircraft launched new air strikes in the rebel-held city of Falluja on Saturday aimed at killing supporters of a Jordanian militant who has led a campaign of suicide bombings and kidnappings in Iraq. But doctors at Falluja's main hospital said at least seven civilians were killed and 13 wounded, including women and children.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) - Dominicans climbed onto rooftops and into trees on Friday to escape floods as Tropical Storm Jeanne weakened into a depression after killing seven people, sweeping away houses and forcing 22,000 people to flee their homes, authorities said.
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Six Venezuelan soldiers and an oil engineer were killed when an armed group attacked a military patrol and state oil company employees near the border with Colombia, Venezuela's defense minister said.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces launched air strikes on the Iraqi town of Falluja Monday, killing at least seven Iraqis, including women and children, a doctor said.
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Up to seven supporters of an ousted Afghan governor were killed and 20 wounded on Sunday in clashes with police and U.S. troops in the western city of Herat, which was placed under night curfew.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Egypt's Patriarch of Alexandria, a top Greek Orthodox leader in a post that traces its lineage back to one of the first disciples of Christ, was killed in a helicopter crash, Greek authorities said on Saturday. A military spokesman said rescuers had found 7 bodies and were searching for the other 10 people aboard the military Chinook helicopter which was carrying Patriarch Petros and some of his staff when it crashed. Earlier reports said nine bodies had been recovered.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A weakening typhoon Chaba headed out to sea north of the Japanese island of Hokkaido on Tuesday after raking much of the country with torrential rain and high winds and killing at least seven people.
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - The death toll in a mortar attack on a police station in the Iraqi city of Najaf on Thursday rose to 7 police, with 21 others wounded, officers said.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb exploded outside the house of a local official north of Baghdad on Monday, killing seven people and wounding 17, police sources said.
PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin on Thursday visited the scene of a violent blaze at a horse-riding center in the Alps where at least six teenagers and an instructor died overnight.
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Two separatist militants and five Indian soldiers were killed in a night-long gunbattle inside a hotel on Kashmir's famous Dal lake, police said on Wednesday.
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni forces killed seven supporters of an anti-U.S. rebel religious leader on Saturday, raising the death toll in nearly three weeks of clashes to at least 179, the Web site of Yemen's ruling party reported.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas killed five U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi guards in a mortar attack on National Guard headquarters in Samarra, north of Baghdad, Thursday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed at least seven Palestinians Thursday in the fiercest fighting in a northern Gaza Strip town since the army invaded 10 days ago to stop rocket attacks on southern Israel.
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Suspected Taliban guerrillas killed six policemen and wounded four others on Wednesday during a foiled attempt to kidnap four Turkish engineers in western Afghanistan, police said. In a separate incident, Afghan National Army troops killed one of a group of four or five militants running an illegal vehicle checkpoint in Deh Rawud district of Uruzgan province, Major Rick Peat, a spokesman for the U.S. military said.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - The Israeli army shot dead six Palestinians on Tuesday and an Israeli special forces officer was killed in a gunfight during a raid on Palestinian militants, witnesses and military sources said.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (Reuters) - A man walked into the cafeteria of a meat-packing plant in Kansas with two handguns on Friday and opened fire, shooting six people to death and then killing himself, local police said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas attacked an Iraqi checkpoint northeast of Baghdad Sunday, killing six members of the Iraqi national guard and wounding four, police said. They said one guerrilla was also killed in the gunbattle near Baquba, 40 miles northeast of the capital.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead seven Palestinian militants, including three senior faction leaders, in Nablus on Saturday in the deadliest raid into the West Bank for months.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tornadoes and thunderstorms packing high winds cut a swath of destruction through the U.S. Midwest, bringing to at least seven the death toll from two days of storms, emergency and police officials said on Monday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A cargo plane crashed into cowsheds and burst into flames on Tuesday two minutes after take-off from the capital of the Xinjiang region in northwest China, killing all seven crew, rescuers and media said.
KARACHI (Reuters) - Seven people were killed and dozens wounded in large-scale violence Wednesday during by-elections in Pakistan's volatile port city of Karachi, police said.
GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles that struck a crowd of people in a refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least seven Palestinians, witnesses said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least seven people, including three policemen, were killed and 13 others wounded on Sunday when an explosion ripped through a crowded market in Baghdad, witnesses and hospital sources said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed five Iraqis and an American soldier at an entrance to the U.S. Baghdad headquarters on Thursday and officials said it looked like the work of an Islamic group linked to al Qaeda.
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed and eight injured on Wednesday when a building collapsed in the northern Pakistan city of Rawalpindi, police said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Explosions at a chemical plant in southwestern China killed up to seven people and forced the evacuation of 150,000 residents from the bustling industrial city of Chongqing, an official said on Saturday.
ANKARA (Reuters) - At least seven high school children died on Friday when a train hit their school minibus on a level crossing in central Turkey, railway officials said.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A blast at a fireworks factory in western Mexico killed seven people and injured one critically, emergency services said on Friday.
MANILA (Reuters) - At least seven prisoners, including suspected Muslim militants, were killed by pursuing Philippine soldiers and police after a mass jailbreak before noon on Saturday in the southern island of Basilan, the military said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in fierce clashes with Shi'ites in Baghdad's impoverished slum area of Sadr City, a U.S. military spokesman said Monday.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers and at least five Muslim militants were killed in a clash in central Afghanistan on Thursday, the U.S. military said.
SYRIA -- Skirmishes March 17 between Syrian security forces and Kurds in northeast Syria resulted in three deaths in Aleppo and four deaths in Afrin, according to Turkey's Anatolia news agency. Syrian officials denied the reports and said only two people were killed in what they called "tribal clashes."
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KABUL (Reuters) - An explosion near an ammunition dump in southern Afghanistan killed seven U.S. soldiers and wounded three others on Thursday, the U.S. army said.
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops killed seven men in a gun battle with an armed gang trying to steal fuel from a pipeline near the Iraqi town of Samarra, a U.S. army spokesman said Monday.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least seven Afghan soldiers were killed and several wounded in two separate attacks blamed on Taliban guerrillas in the volatile south and east of the country, officials said on Sunday.
TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - A French army plane crashed in the Pyrenees mountains in southwestern France on Wednesday, killing seven soldiers, authorities said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Seven Spanish intelligence agents were killed in Iraq on Saturday in an attack on their unmarked vehicles south of Baghdad, Spanish Defense Minister Federico Trillo said, the latest assault on a close American ally.
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least four people in an attack near the offices of a leading Kurdish party in northern Iraq on Thursday, hours after two others were killed in a car bombing west of Baghdad.
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Seven Venezuelan prisoners were shot or stabbed to death during a riot started by inmates battling for control of the Vista Hermosa jail in southeastern Bolivar state, officials said Monday.
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JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Gunmen wielding automatic weapons burst into a wedding party in Indian Kashmir and fired on guests, killing at least seven in what appears to be a family feud rather than separatist violence, police said on Wednesday.
BANGALORE, India (Reuters) - Seven people were killed and 35 injured when a passenger train jumped tracks in southern India on Thursday, a railway spokesman said. The early morning accident took place at Naganahalli village between Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka state, and the palace town of Mysore, 75 miles away.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians, including an eight-year-old boy, in a raid in the Gaza Strip Friday while mediators struggled to resolve a Palestinian leadership crisis.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas killed seven bodyguards of the governor of the volatile southern province of Helmand at the weekend in the latest of a series of violent strikes by the resurgent movement, officials said on Sunday.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - At least seven patients were killed and 21 others critically injured in a Nashville nursing home fire, officials said on Friday.
BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - An explosion in a building near the U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan killed at least seven people on Friday, and others may be trapped inside, residents and U.S. soldiers said.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A car-bomb aimed at an army convoy killed at least seven people and wounded 37 wounded at a fruit market in Kashmir, where a surge of recent violence is threatening peace moves between India and Pakistan.
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas killed at least seven Afghan policemen in two separate raids in the restive southern province of Zabul, scene of a week-long operation to hunt down hundreds of militants, an official said on Monday.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A fired worker hunted down and shot to death six employees of an auto parts supply warehouse on Wednesday, then refused to surrender and was killed by police, authorities said.
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean military helicopter crashed in the country's southeast on Thursday, killing all seven people on board, the South Korean army said.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Seven people died after an explosion rocked a mine in east Turkey Friday, the state-run Anatolian news agency said Saturday.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Floods have killed seven people from a single family in a town south of the Sudanese capital after heavy rains swept across Africa's biggest country leaving thousands homeless, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
MONROVIA (Reuters) - Besieged Liberian President Charles Taylor stuck on Saturday to a pledge to stand down, but gave no date as mortar bombs slammed into and around a church packed with some 2,000 refugees and killed seven people.
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JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Texas (Reuters) - The space shuttle Columbia broke apart on Saturday as it reentered the Earth's atmosphere high over Texas, killing all seven astronauts and plunging the nation into a sense of grief not felt since the Sept. 11 tragedy.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Rebels in eastern Colombia detonated a car bomb near an army patrol on Sunday, killing six soldiers and the civilian car driver, the army said.
REVELSTOKE, British Columbia (Reuters) - At least seven skiers, most believed to be Americans, were killed, and at least one injured Monday after an avalanche roared down a glacier in western Canada's Rocky Mountains, officials said.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead seven Palestinians in raids across the West Bank and swept back into Bethlehem to reimpose a curfew on Thursday, ending a brief Christmas respite from occupation.
KABUL/BERLIN (Reuters) - Seven German servicemen were killed on Saturday and two Afghan girls were missing after a helicopter crashed into a house in Kabul, Germany's defense minister said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said on Saturday that seven people were killed and four others wounded when U.S. and British warplanes attacked targets in southern Iraq on Friday night.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) - Jamaicans turned out in moderate numbers to vote Wednesday under the watchful eyes of thousands of soldiers and police in national elections marred by the dawn slayings of seven people near Kingston.
VANTAA, Finland (Reuters) - A powerful blast has rocked a shopping center packed with thousands of people in the suburbs of Helsinki killing seven and injuring around 80, Finnish authorities said.
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KARACHI (Reuters) - Two gunmen burst into the offices of a Christian charity in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Wednesday and tied up and gagged seven Christians before shooting them at point blank range, police said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least seven policemen were killed and 11 injured on Tuesday when an army truck came under fire in Russia's separatist Chechnya region, jolted in recent weeks by an upsurge of violence.
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian security forces said on Sunday they killed seven Muslim rebels who tried to sneak across a military cease-fire line into disputed Kashmir from Pakistan.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A landslide plowed through a mountain village in southwest China, killing seven people and leaving more than 30 others missing, local officials and state media said on Tuesday.
SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) - Seven people died after rivers across Austria burst their banks following record heavy rainfall, flooding towns and villages, disrupting road and rail links and threatening the annual Salzburg Festival.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian militants detonated a bomb in a crowded cafeteria at Jerusalem's Hebrew University as Israeli, Arab and foreign students ate lunch on Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding more than 80.
EMMANUEL, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians posing as Israeli soldiers ambushed a bus carrying Jewish settlers on Tuesday, setting off a roadside bomb and then spraying gunfire at passengers trying to flee, killing seven.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Seven people including a pro-India politician have been killed in separate shootouts in the restive Kashmir region, police said on Friday.
KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) - Four suspected al Qaeda militants and three Pakistani security men were killed on Wednesday in a clash near the northwestern town of Kohat, military and police officials said.
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(Reuters) - U.S. Coast Guard and Navy rescuers picked up pieces of debris on Thursday from two U.S. Navy jets that crashed in the Gulf of Mexico but found no signs of seven missing crew members, the Coast Guard said.
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Seven men were killed as Hindus and Muslims hurled acid-filled light bulbs and stones at each other Tuesday in the latest religious violence to hit India's riot-torn western Gujarat state, police said.
CHARLESTON, West Virginia (Reuters) - A baby girl trapped in a car was among the three latest victims on Saturday of flooding that has left seven people dead and driven hundreds from their homes in poverty-stricken Appalachia.
(AP) - An Indian air force jet crashed into a bank building in northwestern India on Friday, starting a fire that killed at least seven people and injured 20, police and hospital officials said.
COTABATO CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - The death toll from a grenade attack on a religious festival in the Philippines rose to seven on Thursday with 124 injured as police said a group of teenagers prevented from playing in a concert were probably responsible.
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(AP) - A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a bus stop in Jerusalem's crowded outdoor market Friday, killing six people and wounding at least 50, television said.
JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Islamic separatists killed at least seven people, including four children, in the latest attack on Hindus in Muslim-majority Kashmir, Indian police said Monday. The rebels opened fire on a village in Udhampur district, about 40 miles east of Jammu, winter capital of India's Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior policeman said.
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - A snowstorm turned spring back into winter across parts of the Midwest on Tuesday, delaying air travel and causing traffic accidents that killed at least seven people in Minnesota and Iowa.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombia's second-largest rebel army announced on Tuesday it was studying a truce accord, as a powerful car bomb linked to the country's main guerrilla group killed seven people and injured 14 others.
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(Reuters) - A U.S. Army special forces helicopter crashed in the Philippines on Friday and Manila said some of the 10 American personnel on board were killed. Radio and television stations said fishermen had rescued up to three survivors after the chopper came down in the Bohol Sea during a night flight.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A military helicopter crashed while approaching Russia's main base in rebel Chechnya Thursday, killing at least seven of the 10 people on board, news reports said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Steep, rocky terrain hindered efforts Thursday to recover the bodies of seven Marines killed when their tanker plane crashed into a mountain in Pakistan, defense officials said.
KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) - Rampaging gunmen shot and killed seven people, including two sisters aged 7 and 13, in what police suspected was a revenge killing near the Jamaican capital early on Thursday, police said.
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SHAFTER, Calif. -- Seven people were killed when a minivan collided with an Amtrak train on Wednesday near Bakersfield, authorities said. Two people were ejected from the minivan and five others were found dead inside the vehicle, which was pushed about a half-mile down the tracks during the crash, said Officer Greg Williams, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol.
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SKOPJE (Reuters) - Seven Macedonian soldiers were killed Friday when they hit a land mine allegedly set by ethnic Albanian guerrillas and their deaths cast a pall on a peace deal meant to pull the Balkan state back from the brink of civil war.
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AVA, Ohio (AP) -- A family of seven found dead in their fire-gutted home, victims of an apparent murder-suicide, had shown no signs of violence although the parents were discussing divorce, neighbors and officials said.
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SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) -- Seven people were killed in a head-on van collision on Interstate 10, including six family members from Sacramento traveling in the wrong direction. The crash occurred about 10 p.m. Thursday in the westbound lanes six miles west of Benson, DPS investigators said Friday.
MOSCOW (AP) -- A bomb ripped through an underground walkway packed with hundreds of rush hour commuters and shoppers in central Moscow Tuesday, killing at least seven people and injuring nearly two dozen others, officials said.
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CHANDIGARH, India (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed and 15 injured Monday when a bomb ripped through a bus in the northern Indian state of Punjab, police said.
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TERNATE, Indonesia (AP) -- Violence flared in Indonesia's remote Maluku islands Wednesday when clashes between security forces and feuding Christians and Muslims left at least seven people dead. A day after reports that as many as 161 people were massacred in religious fighting in a village, two more Christians and three Muslims died Wednesday in Maluku's provincial capital, Ambon. They were killed in a gang battle fought with homemade guns and swords.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A 6-year old boy was trampled to death by a herd of four wild elephants in the central province of Binh Thuan, where six other people have died in similar attacks over the last year, a local government official said Friday.
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Two canisters believed to be containing pepper gas were hurled inside a crowded Lisbon nightclub Sunday just as the electricity was cut, causing a stampede in darkness that left seven people dead.
TROIS RIVIERES, Quebec (Reuters) - The seven small children killed when a school outing to see maple syrup harvested ended in a minivan crash ranged from 2 to 5 years old, police said late Thursday.
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Livermore father struggles with deaths of his entire family // LIVERMORE -- A week ago, Dennis Mitchell's life was a blur of activity as he and his wife struggled to keep up with their six children -- five girls and a boy.
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7 die in Indonesia religion clashes - Christians vs Muslims, town incinerated.
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HONOLULU -- An employee opened fire at a Xerox Corp. office building Tuesday, killing seven people before fleeing, authorities said. The seven were found dead at the office building on North Nimitz Highway, a few miles from downtown, after the shootings that erupted shortly after 8 a.m. (1 p.m. EST)
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YEREVAN, Armenia -- Gunmen assassinated Armenia's prime minister and six other top officials and lawmakers today, spraying Parliament with automatic weapons fire during a debate and saying they were staging a coup in the former Soviet republic.
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IZMIT, Turkey (Reuters) - A strong tremor rocked Turkey's northwest Monday, killing at least seven people, injuring more than 200 and sending thousands rushing for open ground in a region devastated by a deadly earthquake four weeks ago.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., (Reuters) - A small plane carrying employees of a hair transplant company crashed into a strip mall early Friday in West Palm Beach, Florida, killing all seven people aboard, safety officials said.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Five American soldiers and two Colombians were feared dead after a U.S. anti-drug plane crashed into mountains in a rebel-held area of southern Colombia, top U.S. counternarcotics official Barry McCaffrey said Monday.
KATLEHONG, South Africa (Reuters) - Seven men have died in a shooting in Mandela Park, a shantytown near Johannesburg, and residents said Tuesday they feared renewed political conflict in the long-contested area.
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Seven young men were killed in a shootout at a marijuana field in northern Mexico on Wednesday, and authorities said the traffickers removed the drugs before police arrived on the scene.
TOKYO (AP) -- Heavy rains and flash floods swept through southwestern Japan on Tuesday, killing at least seven people, grounding flights and shutting down train lines and highways. More than a dozen people were missing.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A truck bomb attack in Baghdad Wednesday against an Iranian armed exile organization opposed to the Tehran government killed seven people, including one Iraqi, and wounded more than 20 others, officials of the group said.
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PAGADIAN, Philippines (AP) -- A river in the southern Philippines jumped its banks after two days of rain, drowning at least seven people and sweeping away 76 houses, civil defense officials said Friday.
MARJAYOUN, Lebanon (AP) -- Guerrilla and Israeli attacks today killed a total seven people, the highest single-day toll this year coming just days before Israeli elections that could alter the course of the occupation of southern Lebanon.
HAUULA, Hawaii (AP) -- A California woman hiking with friends and relatives in a tropical gorge is still missing, and authorities consider her the seventh person killed by a weekend landslide.
Six girls, pickup driver killed in church bus crash // ARTESIA, N.M. (AP) -- Six girls traveling home after a weekend retreat with fellow churchgoers were killed when a camper broke away from a pickup truck and struck the bus in which they were riding.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica, (Reuters) - Gunmen ambushed and shot a Jamaican policeman on Monday, bringing to seven the number of officers shot in as many days. The detective constable, whose name is being withheld, drove to an address in a Kingston suburb with a female companion in a private vehicle where they were ambushed by four gunmen who ordered them out of the car, according to the Police Information Center.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Rival gang members attacked each other with bows and arrows in a three-day riot in eastern Indonesia that killed seven people, police and a news report said today.
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PARIS (AP) -- A fire broke out before dawn today at a nursing home in a Paris suburb, killing seven people and injuring 36 others, authorities said. The blaze began at about 4 a.m. in Livry-Gargan, a working-class town north of the city, firefighters said.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Seven doomsday cult members were found burned to death today in a suspected self-immolation ritual, police said. The seven, identified by police as members of the Youngsang (everlasting life) Church, were found burned beyond recognition in a mini-van on the east coast.