(12/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four car bombs targeting Shi'ites in Baghdad and a town south of the capital killed more than 70 people on Saturday, hours after Saddam Hussein was hanged amid fears of revenge by his Sunni Arab supporters.

(11/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - NATO forces killed 55 Taliban fighters in fierce clashes in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said on Sunday, while a suicide bomber killed 15 Afghans, many working for the U.S. military in another part of the country.

(9/06)

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's navy sank 11 Tamil Tiger vessels and killed dozens of rebels in a fierce five-hour battle overnight, the military said on Monday, a fortnight after the foes agreed to resume peace talks to halt renewed civil war. "There were 25 Sea Tiger boats sailing south. Eleven boats were sunk, and about 70 cadres were killed," said Chief Inspector of Police Percy Perera of the Center for National Security. He said five navy sailors were hurt in the clash.

(7/06)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - More than 70 Taliban guerrillas have been killed in fighting with NATO and Afghan forces in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a provincial police official said on Sunday.

(6/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces killed around 70 Taliban rebels during clashes in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Saturday, raising the number of insurgents killed to 100 over the past three days.

(3/06)

GARAJ, Iran (Reuters) - A strong earthquake hit western Iran on Friday, killing at least 70 people and devastating villages, a provincial official said.

(11/05)

DHAKA (Reuters) - At least 70 people were missing after a ferry capsized in the Bay of Bengal on Monday while sailing to Chittagong port in Bangladesh from a nearby island, police said.

(10/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. fighter jets and attack helicopters killed around 70 suspected militants in a series of air strikes in and near the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday, a military statement said on Monday.

(6/05)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan and U.S. troops backed by warplanes blasted Taliban hideouts for a second day on Wednesday, killing scores of militants in one of the bloodiest setbacks for the guerrillas since their 2001 overthrow, officials said.

(2/05)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian troops killed at least 70 Marxist rebels in an offensive against cocaine labs in the country's southern jungles over the past three weeks, the army's commander said on Friday.

(7/04)

BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - A minibus packed with explosives blew up near a police station and a market north of Baghdad Wednesday, killing 70 people and wounding 30 in the worst attack since the handover of power one month ago.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Fighting between Arab and African tribes has killed at least 70 people and displaced thousands more this week in the Darfur region of western Sudan, a member of parliament for the area said on Wednesday.

(9/03)

LAGOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 70 people were killed, most burned to death, in a road crash in central Nigeria causing an inferno possibly sparked by spare cans of fuel, police said Tuesday.

(1/03)

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - At least 70 people were killed when two buses crashed head on in Cameroon on Sunday in the central African country's worst known road accident, state radio reported on Monday.

(11/01)

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Scores of captured Taliban fighters who refused to surrender last week were executed despite protests by U.S. forces at the scene, a senior Pashtun commander in southern Afghanistan said Wednesday.

(8/00)

GAUHATI, India (AP) -- Waterborne diseases and flooding rivers caused by seasonal monsoon rains have killed at least 70 people and sickened hundreds in India over the past week, authorities and news reports said Friday.

(10/99)

LONDON -- Seventy people were still unaccounted for today from Britain's worst rail disaster in a decade, police said. It wasn't entirely clear if those 70 included the 28 people who were confirmed dead, police said, as they had not identified everyone. Police also have received reports from friends and relatives about another 100 people who may have boarded the trains.