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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed eight people and wounded 10 on Wednesday in Talbie, a Baghdad district near the Shi'ite militia stronghold of Sadr City, police said.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Rebels in Sudan's western region of Darfur said a government warplane killed eight civilians, mostly children, in a northern village on Monday.
KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least seven people and wounded 44 in a busy market in the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala on Saturday, hospital sources said.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber set off explosives outside the office of a U.S.-owned security company in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday killing eight people, including two Americans, a government and company official said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. airstrike destroyed a foreign fighter safe house in a Sunni insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad, killing five insurgents, two women and a child, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Sunday in a suicide car bombing against NATO troops and subsequent gunfire by soldiers, police and witnesses said.
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KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant, killing seven people and wounding 20 others on Sunday in southeast Afghanistan, a provincial governor said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians, including a top militant commander, in raids in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday while a 57-year-old grandmother blew herself up near soldiers.
WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) - A tornado ripped through a North Carolina trailer park on Thursday, killing at least eight people as it tore mobile homes off their foundations and flipped cars into the air, officials said.
NUKU'ALOFA (Reuters) - The death toll from violent riots in the Tongan capital rose to eight on Friday and Australia and New Zealand agreed to a government request to send in a joint force to protect the airport and boost security.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Eight people were killed when troops from a powerful Somali Islamist movement clashed on Sunday with fighters allied to the interim government a day after it rejected a peace initiative.
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - The Israeli military killed seven Palestinian militants and a civilian on Tuesday after pulling out of a battered town where it had mounted its biggest operation in the Gaza Strip in a year.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian rebels shot dead eight soldiers in an ambush in the heaviest reported government losses for seven months in the north African country's lingering political violence, newspapers reported on Saturday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli snipers shot dead two people in Gaza on Saturday, one of them a 12-year-old Palestinian girl, and six others, including at least four militants, were killed in air strikes and clashes, Palestinian sources said.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An explosion on a fuel tanker in Mexico's Pajaritos petrochemical port complex on Tuesday killed six workers and two others were missing, feared dead, state oil monopoly Pemex said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed eight Palestinian gunmen in clashes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including seven from the militant group Hamas, amid a surge in violence in the coastal territory.
GAZA (Reuters) - Rival Palestinian forces clashed in the Gaza Strip and West Bank on Sunday, killing eight people, and wounding at least 100 in the biggest outbreak of internal fighting in months over unpaid wages and stalled unity talks.
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces killed eight people and destroyed a home with air strikes during a gunbattle before dawn on Wednesday in a restive city north of Baghdad, the military and neighbors said.
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BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces killed eight people and destroyed a home with air strikes during a gunbattle before dawn on Wednesday in a restive city north of Baghdad, the military and neighbors said.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast asked Estonia on Tuesday to detain a Panamanian-registered tanker at a Baltic port after an eighth person died from exposure to toxic waste discharged by the vessel in the West African country last month.
KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Mortars killed eight people as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims converged on an Iraqi holy city on Friday for a religious festival where Shi'ite leaders renewed demands for sweeping new powers in their region.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Rising violence in Sudan's Darfur region has killed more aid workers in July than over the previous two years, seriously jeopardizing relief assistance, U.N. humanitarian officials said on Monday. Eight aid workers died last month as fighting among Sudanese factions increased. Concern for aid worker safety has forced humanitarian groups to reduce their presence in Darfur homeless camps to its lowest level since the civil war escalated in 2003, U.N. officials said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed five Palestinian gunmen and three civilians, including a 10-year-old boy, in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday as they pushed deeper into a militant stronghold, Palestinian witnesses said.
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KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier and seven insurgents have been killed in two separate clashes in Afghanistan, coalition forces said on Tuesday, in the latest spate of violence in the country.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah fired rockets at the Israeli city of Haifa on Sunday, killing eight people, as Israel pursued a devastating assault in Lebanon aimed at crippling the Shi'ite Muslim group.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Eight Canadians were killed in Lebanon on Sunday, Foreign Minister Peter MacKay said, adding that Canada was preparing to evacuate some of the tens of thousands of citizens believed to be in the country.
KUFA, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded early on Thursday at a Shi'ite Muslim shrine near the holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, killing seven people, mostly pilgrims from neighboring Iran, police said.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Two suspected Tamil Tiger rebel blasts killed eight people in Sri Lanka's north and east on Monday as a former Northern Irish militant and a top Indian diplomat visited the island to discuss rising violence.
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KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Three bomb attacks killed at least eight people in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, police and hospital sources said.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - At least eight militiamen were killed on Saturday and a dozen others wounded in clashes between Islamic militia and a self-styled anti-terrorism coalition of warlords near Somalia's capital Mogadishu, residents said.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Eight Sri Lankan tourists were feared killed after a suspected land mine exploded as they were tracking wild elephants in a national park near Tamil Tiger rebel territory, an official said on Sunday.
DHAKA (Reuters) - Indian border guards shot dead two Bangladeshis on Saturday along the country's northern Dinajpur frontier, taking the number of Bangladeshis killed in such incidents in the past week to eight, security officials said.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Eight people including two Islamist militants were killed and more than 20 wounded when a gunfight broke out at a rally in the heart of Indian Kashmir's main city on Sunday, police and witnesses said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed seven people including a top Russian policeman on Wednesday when he drove his car into a police convoy in the southern Russian region of Ingushetia.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A fire swept through a nightclub in the Thai resort of Pattaya killing at least eight people and injuring about 54 others, police said on Monday.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian police launched a full-scale murder investigation on Saturday after a resident found eight bodies in a cornfield in rural southwest Ontario.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli airstrikes killed eight Gaza militants on Saturday, the latest in what Palestinian leaders called an "escalation" of violence aimed at blackmailing them into concessions.
KIZILTEPE, Turkey (Reuters) - One thousand Kurdish protesters set fire to two banks on Saturday and youths set up barricades in a town in southeastern Turkey where violent clashes with security forces this week have killed eight people.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan government troops attacked a group of Taliban on Saturday and seven of the insurgents and one American were killed, an Afghan commander said.
HANOI (Reuters) - An underground explosion killed eight Vietnamese coal miners in the northern province of Quang Ninh, state media reported on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An edgy normality returned to Baghdad on Monday with the lifting of a curfew imposed to stem days of sectarian bloodshed but two attacks killed eight people and fears of civil war saw families fleeing hostile neighbors.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas ambushed a militia unit working with U.S. forces in southern Afghanistan, killing two men and capturing and later killing another six, the leader of the militia group said on Monday.
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Tribal militants fired more than 100 rockets into a town near Pakistan's largest gas field in the troubled province of Baluchistan, killing eight people, officials said on Sunday.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A woman with a history of mental illness shot and killed an ex-neighbor before going on a rampage at a California mail facility where she once worked, raising the death toll to eight, police said on Wednesday.
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AHVAZ, Iran (Reuters) - Bombs ripped through a bank and government building in the southern Iranian oil city of Ahvaz on Tuesday, killing eight people in a region that has seen intermittent bombings and rioting since April.
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala said on Monday it would not withdraw special forces troops serving in Congo as U.N. peacekeepers, after eight of its soldiers stationed there were killed in a battle with Ugandan rebels.
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led and Afghan government troops have killed about eight insurgents in the latest clashes in Afghanistan, the U.S. military and Afghan government said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Eight Iraqi soldiers were killed and 17 wounded when gunmen stormed a checkpoint in a restive area north of Baghdad on Friday, police said.
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Eight people were killed by an explosion at a Nigerian oil pipeline after it was attacked by unidentified gunmen, a local government official said on Tuesday.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian rebels killed eight police officers and captured at least 30 others at a remote jungle station on Saturday in what appears to be one of the biggest blows against the security forces in years, the police said on Sunday.
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Eight Muslim militants were killed in a clash between Syrian security forces and an Islamist group in a farm in central Syria on Thursday, the state news agency SANA reported.
DHAKA (Reuters) - A suicide bomb attack killed at least eight people in Bangladesh and wounded more than 50 on Thursday in the latest in a series of deadly blasts blamed on militants seeking Islamic rule in the country.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian plane with eight people on board crashed overnight and all passengers and crew were feared dead, Russian media reported on Sunday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two suicide truck bombs destroyed a Baghdad apartment block on Friday near a hotel and a prison bunker at the center of an abuse scandal, killing at least six people including two children, police said.
TEPYE SHAHEEDAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A cargo airplane plowed into a mountain near the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday killing all eight of its mostly Russian crew, officials said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least three car bombs and several roadside bombs hit U.S. and Iraqi security forces in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk on Sunday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens more, Iraqi police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least seven people in an attack on a police patrol in western Baghdad on Saturday, an Interior Ministry source said.
NALCHIK, Russia (Reuters) - Russian security forces said on Friday they had saved a group of hostages and killed their Chechen captors who held them overnight in a town in the Caucasus following a huge rebel raid that killed dozens. Justice officials said eight rebels were killed and their five captives freed after they tried to drive away in a mini-bus from the police station in the southern town of Nalchik where they had been holed up overnight.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Two suicide explosions in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Monday killed six people and wounded eight, officials said.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Masked gunmen fired on worshippers of a minority Islamic sect in central Pakistan on Friday, killing at least eight and wounding 18, eyewitnesses and doctors said.
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TAL AFAR, Iraq (Reuters) - A female suicide bomber blew herself up outside an army recruitment center in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar on Wednesday, killing herself and at least seven other people and wounding 37, police said.
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KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. aircraft bombed a Taliban position in central Afghanistan killing eight militants in the latest violence in the run-up to a September 18 election, a provincial official said on Wednesday.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan troops killed eight Taliban insurgents in an operation in the volatile southern province of Zabul, an official said on Sunday.
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RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a police station near the city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on Saturday, killing eight police officers, a police chief said.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The death toll in one of Israel's worst rail disasters rose to eight on Wednesday after a passenger in a train that crashed into a truck in central Israel died of her injuries, medical officials said.
SEOUL (Reuters) - A bullied South Korean soldier on duty at the fortified Demilitarised Zone border with the North threw a grenade at sleeping comrades on Sunday then opened fire on them, killing eight, the Defense Ministry said.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas said they executed a district police chief and seven other policemen on Sunday out of 31 police they were holding prisoner in the troubled southern Afghan province of Kandahar.
KIGALI (Reuters) - At least eight Congolese including a two-year-old infant drowned when the ferry taking them to Rwanda capsized on the eastern shores of Lake Kivu, a Rwandan official said on Saturday.
SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - A powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook Chile's northern mining region on Monday, causing at least eight deaths, cutting power and driving residents from their homes in the port city of Iquique.
AHVAZ, Iran (Reuters) - Bombs killed eight people and wounded 75 in Iran on Sunday in a rare string of attacks five days before a presidential election.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Eight people, including six soldiers, were killed and about two dozen were wounded when Maoist rebels opened fire on a bus in eastern Nepal, an army officer said on Saturday.
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BOMBAY (Reuters) - Suspected Maoist insurgents set off a bomb under a police jeep in central India, killing seven policemen and the vehicle's civilian driver, a police officer said on Tuesday.
GULU, Uganda (Reuters) - Ugandan rebels killed at least eight people in an attack on villagers in a remote northern district, the army and aid workers said on Saturday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle near a U.S. military convoy in central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least seven Iraqis and wounding 16, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents ambushed a convoy of police cars in western Baghdad on Thursday, shooting dead eight policemen and then setting their cars ablaze, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three car bombs killed at least eight people in Baghdad on Monday, putting more pressure on a five-day old government Iraqis hope will quell the bloodshed.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Eight people were killed and around 30 injured during clashes which broke out on Friday in the western Ivory Coast cocoa town of Duekoue, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Sunday.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Karen rebels attacked a convoy in southern Myanmar, killing eight people and wounding 15 after a fierce gun battle with police guards, state media reported on Friday.
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces killed eight suspected Taliban guerrillas and captured 16 to thwart an ambush in the southern province of Zabul, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi troops have killed eight gunmen and wounded another in a protracted siege in the northern town of Al-Ras, where fierce gunbattles raged for a second day with suspected militants, security sources said Monday.
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BROOKFIELD, Wis. (Reuters) - A man opened fire with a handgun at a church service in a Wisconsin hotel on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding four before taking his own life, police said.
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DENVER (Reuters) - A twin-engine jet registered to retailer Circuit City crashed on Wednesday about five miles short of the Pueblo, Colorado, airport, killing eight, federal and local officials said.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - Rioting inmates at an Argentine prison began to release hostages on Friday nearly 20 hours after they seized the facility, killing at least eight people and taking dozens hostage.
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Floods and mudslides killed eight more people in Venezuela on Wednesday as torrential rains battered the coastline of the South American country for the third day.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian Marxist rebels, long thought to be on the retreat, ambushed and killed eight soldiers on Wednesday in their second deadly blow to the armed forces in two days, the army said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Abbas was sworn in as Palestinian president on Saturday, but his call for a cease-fire was overshadowed as Israel killed eight Palestinians in Gaza and cut ties with him over a deadly militant attack.
ADELAIDE, Australia (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed Tuesday as a bushfire burned out of control across a southern Australia peninsula, others were missing and six more were rescued after they escaped into the sea, officials said.
MIAMI (Reuters) - Emergency workers were trying to plug a dangerous chlorine leak from a derailed freight train car on Friday after an accident in South Carolina that killed eight people and injured more than 300.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan soldiers killed two prisoners holed up in Kabul's Pul-i-Charki jail on Friday after a day-long siege that started when a group of inmates identified as al Qaeda killed their guards in an attempted jailbreak. At least eight people, including four police and four prisoners, died in the fighting inside the sprawling Soviet-era prison complex on the outskirts of the capital, prison governor Abdul Salam Bakhshi told journalists.
GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli army raided south Gaza on Friday in response to increasing Palestinian mortar attacks, killing at least eight Palestinians and prompting hundreds to flee their homes, witnesses and medics said.
KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb exploded near the office of a senior Shi'ite cleric in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 32 in a failed attempt on the cleric's life, officials said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least seven Iraqis at an entrance to Baghdad's Green Zone government and U.S. diplomatic compound on Monday, a year to the day since U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Militiamen involved in a new round of factional fighting in central Somalia have killed at least eight people and wounded 29, residents said on Friday.
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A policeman ran amok at a security camp in Indian-controlled Kashmir after an argument and shot dead seven colleagues before he was gunned down, police said on Sunday.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Suspected drug gangsters murdered eight people execution-style in and around the Caribbean beach town of Cancun this week as a wave of brutal killings hit Mexico.
MANILA (Reuters) - Several protesters died on Tuesday when Philippine security forces broke up a protest by thousands of striking farmers and workers at a sugarcane estate owned by the family of former president Corazon Aquino, officials said. The May First Labor Center, an activist group that joined the strike, said eight had been killed.
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FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Eight U.S. marines were killed and nine wounded west of Baghdad on Saturday in the bloodiest attack on U.S. forces in Iraq for months.
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FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes bombed houses in the Iraqi city of Falluja for a third successive night, killing at least eight people, four of them children, doctors and residents said on Thursday.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Eight people died and two were missing in floods that have swept across Romania over the past three days, damaging homes and disrupting rail and road traffic, authorities and media said Friday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas killed eight people in Iraq on Monday including a senior Interior Ministry official gunned down near his home, and two Jordanian drivers became the latest foreigners seized in a spiralling hostage crisis.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Eight people were shot dead at a Tamil Tiger safe house near the Sri Lankan capital on Sunday in an attack blamed on the months-old split in the senior ranks of the rebel leadership.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a senior Iraqi civil servant in Baghdad Sunday in the second such murder in as many days and a suicide car bomber killed four Iraqi policemen and two civilians near a U.S.-Iraqi base.
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani troops killed at least eight foreign militants on Wednesday in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan where authorities have been trying to flush out hundreds of al Qaeda-linked fighters, an official said.
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KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces and rebel Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's fighters fought running battles in the holy city of Kerbala early on Tuesday, leaving at least eight Iraqis dead and 13 wounded, witnesses said.
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UTICA, Ill. (Reuters) - The bodies of eight people who sought shelter from an oncoming tornado in the basement of a tavern were found in the rubble of the collapsed century-old structure on Wednesday, authorities said.
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi security forces killed two militants in heavy gunfire in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Thursday, one day after a suicide bombing in the capital Riyadh killed at least five people.
KABUL (Reuters) - Suspected Taliban guerrillas opened fire on a security checkpoint in Afghanistan's insurgency-gripped south, killing eight soldiers, a provincial official said on Saturday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Separatist guerrillas killed eight Russian soldiers and pro-Moscow police in a bloody 24 hours for troops in the rebel Russian region of Chechnya, local media and officials said on Tuesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents killed eight U.S. soldiers in various attacks in the past two days, the U.S. military said in a statement on Sunday.
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WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan condemned on Saturday the "cold-blooded murder" of eight soldiers executed after being ambushed while battling militants near the Afghan border.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Running battles between U.S. troops and insurgents in the Iraqi flashpoint town of Falluja on Friday killed a U.S. Marine, an Iraqi cameraman and at least six other civilians.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Eight people died in clashes with police in two towns in southern Iran over disputed results for a parliamentary election in which Islamic conservatives secured a big victory over reformists, local officials said Sunday.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed eight Palestinians on Wednesday in the deadliest raid in the Gaza Strip in more than a month, casting a shadow over a new U.S. push to salvage a battered peace plan.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Rescue teams have pulled eight bodies from the ruins of a high-rise building which collapsed in flames in Cairo and are searching for at least six more people under the rubble, a high-level security source said Tuesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier was killed by a bomb in Baghdad on Monday and American forces shot dead seven armed looters, while Spain and the Iraqi Governing Council urged the United Nations to return to help Iraq.
PARIS/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.N. chief Kofi Annan said Tuesday that if it was safe he would send a team to Iraq to study the feasibility of early elections, but on the same day six U.S. soldiers and two CNN staff died in fresh violence.
JAMMU (Reuters) - Eight Indian soldiers were killed in a border skirmish with neighboring Pakistan Sunday.
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British tourists who were killed when a pedestrian ran in front of their minibus in South Africa have been named.The eight Britons killed included Roger and Linda Pearce, a married couple from Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, and Neil Pike and Christine Rowe, a couple from Preston, Lancashire.Also killed in the crash were Dr Anthony Egan from Surbiton, Surrey, and Thomas Harris from Cardiff, south Wales.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers died in a bomb blast north of Baghdad Wednesday, while a suicide car bomber killed four other people in northern Iraq in a spate of Christmas Eve attacks.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops and tanks swept into a Gaza Strip refugee camp Tuesday, killing eight Palestinians just hours after Israel lost its first two soldiers in a month of relative calm that has spurred new peace efforts.
KABUL (Reuters) - The bodies of six children and two adults have been uncovered from the rubble of a compound flattened in an attack by American forces in Afghanistan, the U.S. military admitted Wednesday.
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A church bus slammed into the rear of a parked tractor-trailer on a Louisiana highway on Monday, killing eight people, state police said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Up to 100 Afghan Taliban guerrillas attacked a district office in the volatile southern province of Zabul early Sunday, killing eight policemen and wounding two others, a local official said.
LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Up to eight protesters were reported killed on Sunday after Bolivia's government sent thousands of troops backed by tanks to quell increasingly violent protests against President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia recovered on Monday the bodies of eight special forces soldiers killed after a fall into the ocean from a helicopter in strife-torn Aceh province while practicing a display for Armed Forces Day.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian troops killed eight Muslim rebels trying to slip into Indian-controlled Kashmir from the Pakistani side of the region on Saturday, the latest casualties in an annual surge of bloodshed before the winter.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A mortar blast tore through a market north of Baghdad, killing eight civilians and deepening the woes of U.S. forces trying to maintain order five months after the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed and 15 were injured when a horse loaded with explosives blew up in a crowded village market in Colombia on Wednesday in an attack the army blamed on leftist rebels
JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Two Indian policemen were among eight people killed in Kashmir Wednesday as surging violence across the disputed region threatened peace moves between India and Pakistan.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A man was sentenced to hang on Thursday for stabbing to death eight children in a Japanese elementary school in a rampage that shocked the nation.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Five Afghan soldiers and three Taliban guerrillas were killed in the restive province of Zabul in the latest attack blamed on the ousted Islamic militia, an official said Sunday.
MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - A passenger boat capsized in a tropical storm on a river deep in Brazil's Amazon rain forest, killing at least eight people and leaving another 10 missing, authorities said on Sunday.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Eight people have died in central Iran after plans to redraw administrative borders inflamed ethnic tensions, officials said on Sunday.
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SANAA (Reuters) - A man shot dead eight worshippers and wounded two at a mosque in southern Yemen on Wednesday, security officials said.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Six Muslim militants and two policemen were killed Monday in the latest Saudi security sweep, which Riyadh says shows it is serious about waging war on terror.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Three kidnapped judges and five prisoners were killed in Pakistan on Friday when police raided a jail to free seven judges taken hostage by the prisoners, police said.
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BUREIJ, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed eight Palestinians on Monday while storming a Gaza Strip refugee camp where they seized a founder of the militant Islamic group Hamas, battled gunmen and demolished houses.
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KINSTON, N.C. (Reuters) - Eight workers were believed killed and dozens were injured as a huge explosion ripped apart a North Carolina pharmaceutical supply plant on Wednesday, local government and hospital officials said.
CHAMAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Eight Afghans were killed and 10 were injured when a minibus traveling from Afghanistan to Pakistan crashed on a mountain road near the border, hospital staff said Friday.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's latest crackdown against a Palestinian uprising left at least eight Palestinians dead in a weekend of escalating violence throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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PATNA, India (Reuters) - Outlawed leftist insurgents in India's eastern Bihar state shot dead five women and three children on suspicion they belonged to a rival faction of the group, police said Thursday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - At least eight people drowned and 32 were missing and feared dead after two ships collided in thick fog and one of them capsized on a river in southwestern China Wednesday, state media said.
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RIOBAMBA, Ecuador (Reuters) - Shaken residents of an Ecuadorean city ventured back on Thursday to homes ravaged by a series of explosions at an army munitions dump that showered nearby streets with shells and killed eight people.
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(AP) - Sen. Paul Wellstone, the passionately liberal Democrat whose re-election campaign was vital to control of the Senate, was killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota on Friday along with his wife, daughter and five others.
CHIERI, Italy (Reuters) - In the latest killings involving families or children to shock Italy, a man went on a rampage Tuesday, shooting dead seven people with three guns before killing himself. It was the third episode of domestic violence in Italy in less than 24 hours, leaving a total of 12 dead and two critically injured.
KIDAPAWAN, Philippines (Reuters) - A bomb ripped through a bus terminal in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least eight people and wounding 19 in the latest of a series of bomb attacks in the violence-hit region.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Eight people were killed and nine others wounded Sunday when Western coalition planes bombed targets in southern Iraq, an Iraqi military spokesman said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rescuers combed through rubble in search of survivors on Wednesday after an explosion ripped through a Moscow apartment block killing at least eight people and burying others, emergencies officials said.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A disgruntled Lebanese employee opened fire with an automatic rifle at colleagues on Wednesday, killing eight and wounding five at the office of a teachers' pension fund, witnesses and officials said.
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - The Bangladesh army joined rescue operations on Wednesday after a fresh wave of floods and mudslides killed at least eight people and cut off highways in southeastern Bangladesh.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains killed eight people in Nepal on Monday and Tuesday and thousands have fled their homes to higher ground, police said.
ROMETTA MAREA, Sicily (Reuters) - Italian rescuers recovered eight bodies, including the driver, from the mangled wreckage of an express train that derailed in Sicily, officials said Sunday.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber killed seven people and wounded 35 at a Jerusalem bus stop on Wednesday, prompting President Bush to delay a speech laying out the path to a Palestinian state.
JAMMU/India, MUZAFFARABAD/Pakistan (Reuters) - Eight civilians and an unspecified number of soldiers were killed as Indian and Pakistani troops traded fire in disputed Kashmir on Friday, officials said as a U.S. envoy took his peace mission to New Delhi.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A roof at Russia's Baikonur space complex, the linchpin of the Soviet space program, collapsed Sunday, trapping eight workers who were feared to have died under the rubble, space officials said.
BAKERSVILLE, N.C. (Reuters) - Fire broke out in a county jail in western North Carolina, killing eight inmates who were trapped inside and injuring 13 other people as it rapidly filled the building with dense smoke, local officials said on Saturday.
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RAMALLAH (Reuters) - Washington's Middle East envoy met Yasser Arafat under the guns of Israeli tanks besieging the Palestinian leader's headquarters on Friday. At least eight Palestinians were killed and 24 wounded as battles raged through the night in Nablus, the West Bank's biggest city, Palestinian security officials and witnesses said.
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NANTERRE, France (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at a town hall in western Paris Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding about 30 in what Prime Minister Lionel Jospin called an act of "raging madness."
(Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber killed seven people on a bus in northern Israel Wednesday, posing a threat to U.S. efforts to secure a halt to nearly 18 months of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Reuters) - His voice cracking with emotion, President Bush warned Americans on Friday to expect more combat losses like the eight killed in an ongoing battle at Gardez, Afghanistan, saying there are "still dangerous missions left ahead."
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JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Seven Palestinians, including five policemen, and an Israeli soldier were killed in heavy fighting in the northern West Bank Thursday.
RABAT, Morocco (AP) -- A Ukrainian cargo plane crashed high in the mountains of southern Morocco and killed all eight crew members, the Interior Ministry said Thursday.
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(AP) - A hard freeze overnight left roads in the South even more treacherous Thursday after snow and sleet caused power outages, snarled traffic and prompted South Carolina's governor to call up the National Guard to help stranded drivers. A winter storm stretching from Louisiana to Virginia caused hundreds of traffic accidents, killing at least eight people.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians on Friday, most of them during a huge round-up of militants in the West Bank, and launched a new air raid on Gaza in retaliation for Palestinian attacks.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Eight track and cross-country runners from the University of Wyoming were killed early Sunday when their sports-utility vehicle collided head-on with a pickup truck that had apparently swerved into their lane.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq said Monday that eight civilians were killed in a weekend airstrike by U.S. and British warplanes on southern Iraq. The Pentagon gave no word of casualties.
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OSAKA, Japan (AP) -- A man brandishing a knife burst into an elementary school on Friday and slashed nearly two dozen people, killing at least eight children, in Japan's worst mass-killing since a deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways six years ago.
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AZUR, Israel (Reuters) - A Palestinian driver smashed a bus into a crowd of Israeli soldiers and commuters at a bus stop Wednesday, killing at least eight people in the bloodiest attack in Israel in almost four years.
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MOSCOW, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Twelve out of 20 crew members from a Russian fishing boat that sank in the Pacific were found alive aboard a raft on Thursday after 12 hours lost at sea, an officer at Russia's Sea Rescue centre said.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Eight people, including five separatist guerrillas, were killed and 11 people wounded in shootouts and explosions in India's Jammu and Kashmir state, police said Wednesday. They said Indian security forces shot dead two separatist militants Wednesday morning at Jamnagari village in Pulwama district, 20 miles south of state's summer capital Srinagar.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Rebels from Colombia's largest insurgency took their war to a remote village, killing eight people and burning 20 houses, a school and a church, the army said.
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ZURICH, Switzerland (Reuters) - Eight people were killed and four injured when two helicopters carrying sightseers collided over western Switzerland Tuesday, police said. Police in the Alpine canton of Valais said the Air Glaciers helicopters collided while preparing to land and plunged onto a soccer field near the town of Beuson, spilling highly flammable kerosene.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico was being lashed Thursday by two storms that killed eight people in mudslides and flooding and forced the evacuation of hundreds of families. Storm warnings were posted in four western Mexico states while on the others side of the country authorities reinforced flood barriers and coped with raging rivers.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian security forces have killed eight armed insurgents in northeastern Iran, state-run Tehran television reported Thursday. The television report said the clashes took place in the suburbs of Torbat-e-Heydarieyeh, near the border with Afghanistan. It gave no other details. But the Khorasan daily said the eight were drug traffickers who had taken five people hostage. It said the hostages, who were not identified further, were freed.
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- With its pilot and seven passengers apparently unconscious, a twin-propeller plane continued to fly across Australia on autopilot for six hours before it ran out of fuel and crashed Tuesday, killing all eight.
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MOSCOW (AP) -- An eighth person has died as a result of two bomb explosions in southern Russia, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Monday. In one of Sunday's explosions, a homemade bomb blew up under a car near an outdoor market in Vladikavkaz. A sixth person has now died in that case, and 22 are wounded, said Marina Ryklina, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (Reuters) - Up to eight people were crushed to death and several were injured at a rock festival in Denmark by the American group Pearl Jam, Danish media reported Saturday.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- At least eight people have died in the record-breaking heat wave which has roasted Northern California this week, including two elderly people in a nursing home that isn't air conditioned.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - At least eight inmates died Thursday in a clash pitting ultra-right death squad fighters against rival gang members in the Colombian capital's notorious Modelo prison, authorities and inmates said.
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ACWORTH, Ga. (AP) -- Fire destroyed a mobile home early today and killed eight people, including an infant, authorities said. Firefighters found eight bodies in the four-bedroom, doublewide trailer after getting the fire under control, Cobb County Fire Department spokesman Mark Gresham said.
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BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) -- A lieutenant moving from office to office randomly opened fire on fellow officers at an infantry base today, killing six people before he was fatally shot. A seventh victim died later.
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A man spouting obscenities and mocking religion walked into a church service for teen-agers Wednesday night, pulled a gun and opened fire, fatally shooting seven before he shot and killed himself in a church pew.
Khattab, an Arab who leads Chechen militants in western Dagestan, said in an interview that eight of his fighters have been killed and 12 wounded in fighting since Sunday.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- A lobster boat with 72 people on board sunk off the Caribbean coast after being hit by a giant wave Tuesday and a plane carrying 16 was believed to have crashed in a Nicaraguan jungle. Sixty-four of those on board the boat were rescued; eight others were still missing.
NEW DELHI -- At least eight people were killed and 150 injured on Friday when a New Delhi-bound passenger train rammed into a derailed goods train in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A 70-year-old woman pleaded guilty today to smothering eight of her 10 young children in a series of crimes dating back to 1949. Marie Noe, whose children were once believed to be victims of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, admitted to eight counts of second-degree murder. A judge sentenced her to 20 years of probation, the first five of which must be served under home confinement.
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Militant youths protesting the election of Olusegun Obasanjo as president torched two police stations and fought running battles with officers today. At least eight people were killed in the fighting, witnesses said.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) - A far-right death squad murdered eight people and kidnapped at least three others in working class neighborhoods of Colombia's main oil refining town, authorities said Monday. The attack, which took place in Barrancabermeja Sunday, came two days after the U.S. State Department issued a damning report on Colombia's human rights record and accused the military of collaborating with outlawed paramilitary gangs.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Tornadoes ripped across the South for the second time in less than a week, a punishing storm system that killed at least eight people in two states and left thousands of people without power early today.
JACKSON, Tenn. -- A string of tornadoes raced across western Tennessee, ripping apart homes, killing at least eight people and critically injuring 11 others. Six of the deaths Sunday evening came when a tornado touched down in Madison County, said Kurt Pickering, spokesman for the state's Emergency Management Agency. At least 71 county residents were hospitalized.
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OSLO -- At least eight people died when a light aircraft crashed in western Norway on Monday as it was ferrying workers from Denmark to their jobs at a shipyard, police said.