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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - At least nine people were killed in Haiti's largest slum on Friday during a raid by security forces targeting armed gangs blamed for a recent surge in kidnappings and other crimes in the capital Port-au-Prince.
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside the compound of the Afghan governor of southern Helmand province on Tuesday, killing eight people, provincial officials said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A fire at a Russian psychiatric hospital killed nine people and wounded 16, local media reported on Sunday, just over a day after a blaze at a hospital in Moscow killed 45 women.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide blast killed at least eight people near the Somali government seat of Baidoa on Thursday in an attack the administration blamed on Islamists backed by al Qaeda.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on a bakery in eastern Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing nine people and wounding two, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen stopped three minibuses carrying Shi'ites south of Baghdad, killed nine passengers and kidnapped 13 others on Saturday, local police said.
TOKYO (Reuters) - At least nine people were killed, at least 20 injured and others trapped under rubble when a tornado hit northern Japan on Tuesday, local officials said.
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BALAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Nine people were killed by mortars in the Shi'ite city of Balad and militias attacked two Sunni villages nearby, police said on Friday, in a new round of sectarian attacks in an area where dozens were killed this week.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed nine Palestinians, at least three of them Hamas militants, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, pressing a nearly four-month offensive launched after a soldier was abducted, witnesses said.
LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - At least nine people died and 60 were wounded on Thursday as miners fighting for control of tin mines, including one of the world's biggest, battled each other with dynamite in western Bolivia.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three separate roadside bomb attacks in Baghdad on Tuesday killed at least nine people, Iraqi police sources said.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine police officers killed nine suspected members of a kidnap syndicate in a gunbattle on Saturday after a brief car chase in a province north of the capital Manila, officials said.
QASMIYEH, Lebanon (Reuters) - Hizbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers and killed at least seven on Wednesday, drawing a wave of Israeli air strikes deep into Lebanon that hit 10 bridges and killed two civilians.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces in Iraq killed seven militants with links to senior al Qaeda leaders in a raid on Monday near the area where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed last week, the U.S. military said. It said there were several women and children at the scene and that two children had also been killed.
CONAKRY (Reuters) - At least nine people were killed and more than a dozen wounded when soldiers opened fire on student protesters in Guinea on Monday, police and witnesses said, as a general strike gripped the poor West African country.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nine severed heads were found in the latest atrocity in a volatile area north of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said, as Iraqi leaders faced a crisis over filling key security jobs critical to ending rampant bloodshed.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamic court militia seized a strategic town outside Mogadishu on Sunday, dislodging a member of the anti-terrorism warlord coalition in fierce fighting that left nine people dead, officials and residents said.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Nine people have died after being injected with a fake drug made by a Chinese company and 14 executives have been detained for questioning, state media said on Monday.
CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - At least five people drowned and four were missing after a boat carrying Tamil refugees fleeing violence-hit Sri Lanka capsized on Saturday, Indian police said.
KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. military helicopter with nine personnel aboard crashed while on combat operations in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb exploded near a courthouse in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least nine people and wounding 46, police said.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military attacked Tamil Tiger rebel targets on Tuesday in retaliation after a suicide attack on the army's headquarters that killed nine, raising fears a battered ceasefire might be collapsing.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen dressed as Iraqi police commandos killed nine people in an attack on an electronics store in Baghdad on Wednesday, the latest in a series of raids targeting lucrative businesses in the capital.
DULUIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops killed nine people, including a family, after their patrol was ambushed in an Iraqi town early on Sunday, Iraqi police said.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A blast killed nine Afghan policemen as they were bringing back the bodies of four Macedonians kidnapped and killed by the Taliban and dumped in a valley, the Kandahar provincial governor said on Saturday.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police are investigating two separate cases of suspected group suicide after nine people were found dead in parked cars, the latest in a series of such cases.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's once-oppressed Shi'ite majority saw its political dominance confirmed in final election results on Friday, and a car bomb at a Sunni mosque underlined the deep sectarian divisions a new government must confront. The blast targeted worshippers leaving prayers at a mosque in the Doura district of Baghdad, one of the capital's most violent areas. Nine people were killed and dozens wounded.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Eight policemen and one civilian were killed on Tuesday when an armed gang in military fatigues attacked the offices of the Italian oil company Agip in Nigeria and robbed a bank.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed 9 sailors in a fragmentation mine ambush on a main supply route in Sri Lanka's north on Thursday, the military said, amid growing fears of a return to civil war.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least nine prisoners and guards were killed in a gun battle at an Iraqi high-security jail on Wednesday after detained guerrilla suspects, some of them foreign, grabbed weapons and tried to flee, officials said.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Nine policemen were killed in two separate attacks by Taliban guerillas in Afghanistan, police said on Saturday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Masked men shot dead nine Iraqis near Baghdad on Wednesday, underscoring the country's dire security situation two weeks before elections and as President George W. Bush was due to unveil a comprehensive new strategy.
PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) - Police recovered the bodies of nine men and women on Friday after a boat bringing more than 100 illegal immigrants ran aground off Sicily.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine communist rebels killed nine soldiers and civilians during an ambush on troops in a remote farming town on the southern island of Mindanao, an army spokesman said on Monday.
SEOUL (Reuters) - Nine South Korean construction workers were crushed to death and five injured when a three-storey structure they were building collapsed on top of them, police said on Friday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bomb blasts in Iraq have killed nine Americans, including a U.S. State Department security officer, since Monday, U.S. defense officials said on Tuesday.
VIENNA (Reuters) - Nine Germans, including six children, were killed when a helicopter dropped a concrete block on a gondola at a popular Austrian ski resort, emergency services said on Monday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least nine people, including a poll worker, have been killed this week in Afghanistan, part of a fresh wave of violence ahead of next month's parliamentary polls, officials said on Wednesday.
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FRESNO, Calif (Reuters) - Convicted child killer and rapist Marcus Wesson was sentenced to death on Wednesday for murdering nine of his children and grandchildren.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed nine guerrillas, five of whom were reported to be Syrians, in a village northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Friday.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nine people were killed in a brief gunbattle in western Nepal after Maoist rebels opened fire from behind bushes at a security patrol, an army officer said on Saturday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. and four Italian airmen and an Iraqi were killed in separate aircraft crashes in Iraq, officials said on Tuesday, but there was no indication insurgents downed them.
KABUL (Reuters) - Insurgents launched three nearly simultaneous attacks on U.S. and Afghan government positions and up to nine attackers were killed, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
CLEVELAND - A fire broke out at a crowded house during a children's sleepover early Saturday, killing seven kids and two adults, the fire department said. The fire was so hot it scorched the frame of the home jet black and forced back neighbors who rushed in to help.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's Maoist rebels killed nine soldiers and policemen in the east of the turbulent Himalayan nation, an army officer said on Tuesday, the biggest loss to security forces since the king lifted emergency rule.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Iraq and U.S. troops shot dead eight Iraqis, including five civilians, during an attack on a patrol, the American military said.
KABUL (Reuters) - Anger spread in Afghanistan on Friday over a report that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Koran, and nine people were killed and about 30 wounded in protests, police and residents said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents shot dead five Iraqi policemen at a checkpoint and a car bomb killed four people in Baghdad on Sunday, underscoring the dire security situation on the third day of violence since a new government was formed.
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TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Suicide car bombers launched twin attacks inside a police academy compound in the town of Tikrit Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding dozens, Iraqi police and doctors said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents attacked an Iraqi National Guard convoy and killed nine troops in one of at least five car bombings on Saturday in an upsurge of violence as Iraq's political leaders bicker over a new government.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Nine Australian military personnel died when their helicopter crashed during an aid mission to the earthquake-hit Indonesian island of Nias.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suicide car bombers mounted two attacks on Iraqi soldiers in northern Iraq Thursday, killing at least seven people, as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ites converged on a southern city for a religious ceremony.
TIRANA (Reuters) - A U.S. military plane with nine people on board crashed in a mountainous area of southern Albania on Thursday, exploding in a ball of flame, police and villagers said.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - A bungled bank raid in Costa Rica that erupted into a bloody hostage crisis ended on Wednesday when the only robber left standing gave himself up to police after a day of shootouts that left nine dead.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Militiamen killed nine United Nations Bangladeshi peacekeepers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday in one of the worst attacks against U.N. troops in Africa.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on customers in a bakery in eastern Baghdad Friday, killing nine people, police said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Nine people died and 17 others were still missing after an explosion in a coal mine in Russia on Wednesday, a local administration spokeswoman said. A team of 30 miners and experts had been sent to the mine in the Kemerovo region in Siberia on Tuesday to investigate smoke inside the mine and stop it spreading.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police said on Saturday they were investigating two separate cases of suspected group suicides after nine people were found dead in parked cars, the latest in a series of such cases.
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BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a U.S.-Iraqi military center in the town of Khanaqin near the Iranian border Saturday, killing at least three Iraqi soldiers and five civilians, the U.S. army said.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A land mine blast killed nine Afghan soldiers near the border with Pakistan on Saturday in the bloodiest attack yet on Afghanistan's army.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - All nine people aboard a Russian plane that went missing on Thursday have been killed, an Emergencies Ministry spokesman said on Friday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinians marched on Friday to celebrate the killing of six Israelis by militants who mounted their strongest challenge yet to President-elect Mahmoud Abbas and his call for non-violence. Three Palestinian gunmen were also killed during the bombing and shooting assault at Karni, the main cargo crossing between Israel and Gaza, late on Thursday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - All nine people aboard a Russian plane that went missing on Thursday have been killed, a Russian radio station reported on Friday.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed nine Palestinians on Thursday, including two teenagers, as tanks pushed into the southern Gaza Strip in what the army called a raid to stop mortar and rocket attacks on Jewish settlements.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Rescuers dug seven bodies, all of them from the same family, from the rubble of their house on Saturday after an abortive truck bomb attack on the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad in which nine people died.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A strong earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale shook Indonesia's Sumatra island on Sunday, killing nine people, triggering large waves at sea and sending thousands fleeing their homes in panic, officials and media said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A double suicide car bomb attack devastated a police station just outside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding 57 in the latest strike against Iraq's beleaguered security forces.
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KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen ambushed a minibus carrying nine Iraqi police recruits home from a training course in Jordan, killing all of them, police in Kerbala said.
GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli army killed nine militants in and around the Gaza Strip Saturday, raising the Palestinian death toll to 47 in one of the biggest and bloodiest offensives in four years of conflict.
GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli army killed nine Palestinians in Gaza Friday as it poured its forces into the coastal strip, expanding a ground offensive intended to root out militants firing rockets into Israeli towns.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Suspected Taliban militants launched a string of attacks on security posts in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing nine soldiers, an official said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least eight people in an attack on a police checkpoint in Baghdad Friday, after a night of U.S. air strikes around the rebel-held city of Falluja that killed scores.
PENSACOLA, Fla. (Reuters) - Hurricane Ivan slammed into the U.S. Gulf coast on Thursday with furious winds and towering waves that ripped houses off their foundations, sliced a bridge in half and cut power to millions. At least nine people died, most of them after Ivan spawned tornadoes in northwest Florida, while Ivan's 130-mph winds plucked tall trees out of the ground like they were carrots and filled the air with a blizzard of debris.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A powerful car bomb exploded outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta on Thursday, killing at least nine people and wounding 182 in an attack Indonesian police blamed on Islamic militants linked to al Qaeda.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Six Karamojong warriors and three government troops were shot dead during an operation to disarm the pastoralist nomads in remote northeastern Uganda, the army said on Friday.
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KAMPALA, Uganda (Reuters) - Ugandan troops killed nine Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels after a devastating raid on the group's headquarters in southern Sudan scattered its main force, the army said Tuesday.
TAVSANCIL, Turkey (Reuters) - Two trains including an inter-city express crashed head-on in western Turkey on Wednesday, killing nine people and injuring scores more, a local politician at the scene said.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Muslim militants killed nine Indian troopers in an attack on a paramilitary camp in divided Kashmir, just hours before India and Pakistan, which both claim the region, began a round of peace talks.
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - At least nine Colombian police officers were killed by suspected Marxist rebels who detonated a bomb as their patrol vehicle drove by, police said on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least nine Iraqis were killed and 16 others injured in fierce clashes between U.S. forces and gunmen overnight in Falluja, west of Baghdad, a doctor said Friday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A van crowded with Iraqis crashed into a U.S. tank in northern Baghdad, killing nine Iraqis on board and injuring 10, the U.S. military said on Friday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew up a fuel truck near a Baghdad police station Monday, killing at least nine people, wounding 62 and destroying cars and buildings.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A bomb at a crowded open-air market in southern Russia killed nine people and wounded more than 30 Friday, news agencies said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chechen separatist fighters killed nine soldiers from pro-Moscow forces in an ambush and skirmishes in the war-torn Russian region, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nine U.S. soldiers were killed in a bloody 24 hours for U.S.-led forces in Iraq on Sunday, and Washington said it was still deciding which former general from Saddam Hussein's army to appoint to restore order in Falluja.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian troops shot at least two armed militants dead in the southern Niger delta four days after seven people, including two American oil workers, were killed in an ambush, a Nigerian newspaper reported on Thursday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A five-day riot at a Brazilian prison, in which at least nine inmates were killed and prisoners brandished the severed heads of their enemies from the walls, ended on Thursday, authorities said.
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed nine Palestinians, the youngest 13 years old, in a raid into Gaza Wednesday to stop reprisal rocket attacks for the assassination of a Hamas leader.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents attacked a U.S. convoy carrying fuel west of Baghdad Friday, killing at least nine people, witnesses said.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Rival factions of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels exchanged mortar and machine gun fire in the country's east on Friday and nine people were killed in the worst fighting since a two-year truce halted the island's civil war.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Hundreds of Maoist rebels stormed a police post in eastern Nepal overnight and killed at least nine police officers, officials said Monday.
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KUCUKGECIT, Turkey (Reuters) - An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale killed nine people and injured dozens more in an eastern region of Turkey late on Thursday.
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani paramilitary forces attacked tribal fighters sheltering al Qaeda militants near the rugged Afghan border Tuesday and at least nine people were killed in clashes that raged through the day, officials said.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California man is to be charged with murder on Saturday after nine bodies -- including children he apparently fathered in incestuous, polygamous relationships -- were found in his home, police said.
BUL (Reuters) - American and Afghan troops killed nine suspected Islamic militants during a gun battle in the eastern province of Paktika, the U.S. military said on Saturday, in one of the heaviest clashes reported in recent months.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber killed eight people on a crowded Jerusalem bus on Sunday on the eve of World Court hearings into a controversial barrier Israel says will ensure its security against such attacks.
JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least nine people were hacked to death when a tribal militia group attacked a rival village in the latest outbreak of communal violence in central Nigeria, witnesses said on Saturday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents killed five American soldiers and four Iraqi civilians in bomb attacks north and west of Baghdad on Saturday only a day after U.N. experts arrived to assess security conditions in the country.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. general said on Thursday guerrillas were only a "sporadic threat" in Iraq as a surge of violence by insurgents in the volatile Sunni triangle region around Baghdad killed nine people.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Six militants and three Indian soldiers were killed in a shootout in Indian Kashmir on Saturday, police said, the highest toll in a single gun battle in the disputed region in months.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nine U.S. soldiers were killed on Thursday when a Black Hawk helicopter went down in Iraq and dozens more had a narrow escape when a huge C-5 transport plane was hit by ground fire shortly after take-off.
KABUL (Reuters) - Several Islamic militants were killed and three soldiers from U.S.-led forces injured in clashes along Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistan, the U.S. military said Thursday. Spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Bryan Hilferty said between three and 14 guerrillas were killed in a series of clashes on Wednesday near the U.S. base at Shkin, which lies close to the border with Pakistan.
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - A bomb killed nine people, including a baby, and injured more than 20 at an open-air New Year celebration where hundreds had gathered in Indonesia's troubled Aceh province, officials said Thursday.
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MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - Armed rebels stormed into a village near rebel Chechnya early Monday, killing at least nine Russian border guards and taking four hostages as they fled, a local official said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein is a broken man and has supplied intelligence that helped capture two top wanted men, officials said on Monday, but violence raged on in Iraq despite his arrest and bombings killed nine people.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber crashed through the gates of a Baghdad police station Thursday, killing at least three policemen and five civilians and wounding scores in the blast, Iraqi police said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops killed eight U.S-trained Iraqi guards and a Jordanian on Friday after mistaking the Iraqis for rebels in the heartland of resistance to the American-led occupation, witnesses said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian nuclear-powered submarine sank in stormy Arctic seas early Saturday, killing nine servicemen, as it was being towed into port for scrapping, defense officials said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Nine Russian soldiers were killed when a land mine exploded near a column of Russian military trucks in rebel Chechnya, Russian news agencies said on Friday, quoting military sources.
KABUL (Reuters) - About 200 Taliban fighters attacked a district headquarters in southeastern Afghanistan, killing three government soldiers and capturing four, a day after militants killed six troops in same area, police said on Monday.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Nine people were dead in Japan and twelve were missing on Monday in the wake of typhoon Etau, which raked the nation with high winds and pounding rain before heading out to sea and turning into a tropical depression.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistan official said on Friday two sons of Osama bin Laden were wounded and possibly arrested in a raid by U.S. and Afghan troops in Afghanistan but Washington disputed the report as did local officials and U.S. military in Afghanistan. The Pakistan official also said nine suspected al Qaeda men were killed in the operation.
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KARACHI (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen killed at least nine Shi'ite Muslims and wounded eight as they headed to evening prayers in Karachi on Saturday, police and hospital officials said,
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians and an Israeli soldier was shot dead on Sunday as Israel's center-left Labour Party said it was pulling out of talks on joining Ariel Sharon's coalition.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Nine people were killed and 15 seriously injured on Friday when a train derailed in rugged Australian bushland south of Sydney, rail officials said.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Nine people died on Thursday when their pickup truck crossed the median of a highway and slammed into an oncoming truck in Iowa's second deadly incident in four months involving illegal immigrants, police said.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Seven Palestinians, five of them unarmed, and two Israelis were killed in separate incidents on Thursday in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank city of Hebron.
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A deadly snowstorm left at least nine people dead and more than 1.5 million utility customers without power in the Carolinas as it swept into the U.S. Mid-Atlantic on Thursday, blanketing cities from Washington to New York with several inches of snow.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Nine Algerian soldiers were killed Saturday in an ambush by suspected Islamic rebels in the bloodiest anti-military attack since the start of the holy month of Ramadan, the official APS news agency said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chechen rebels shot down a Russian military helicopter on Sunday, killing nine servicemen, after Moscow said its forces had launched new military action to crush attempts by the guerrillas to stage "new acts of terror."
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (Reuters) - Dozens of vehicles slammed together on a Wisconsin highway in heavy fog Friday, killing nine people and starting a fire that trapped some victims in wreckage that burned hot enough to melt metal, police said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Nine Russian soldiers were killed in a major battle which raged in southern Russia on Thursday after Chechen guerrillas downed a Russian military helicopter, army regional command said.
GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli army killed nine Palestinians on Tuesday in one of its biggest raids in the Gaza Strip and faced international isolation over its siege of Yasser Arafat's base after the U.N. Security Council said it must stop.
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PAHALGAM, India (Reuters) - Suspected Islamic militants killed nine Hindus and wounded 31, as they slept in tents along a pilgrimage trail in Indian Kashmir, in a dawn raid Tuesday that New Delhi blamed on a Pakistan-based group.
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As the two armies clashed across their frontier, Indian forces and Muslim separatist rebels clashed in various parts of Indian-ruled Kashmir and nine people were killed, Indian police said.
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(AP) - Israeli forces took over this city early Monday, killing nine Palestinians, just hours after Israel's Cabinet reluctantly agreed to a U.S. proposal to release Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from his monthlong confinement and allow him to travel freely.
(Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bombing that killed eight passengers on a bus in Israel and a defiant Israeli pledge to press on with its West Bank offensive dealt a double blow Wednesday to a U.S. peace mission.
HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber killed at least eight people when he blew himself up on a bus crowded with early morning commuters near the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Wednesday, Israeli police said.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - At least nine Palestinians were killed when heavy fighting raged overnight in two West Bank towns just hours after President Bush pressed Israel to reverse an eight-day-old offensive.
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(Reuters) - Nine people were killed and 30 injured by a powerful car bomb near the U.S. Embassy in Lima, but President Bush vowed on Thursday that no "two-bit terrorists" would prevent his visit to Peru this weekend.
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ANCHORAGE -- Nine people were killed and one injured Wednesday morning when a PenAir commuter plane crashed soon after taking off from the airport in Dillingham. Alaska State Troopers said the plane, a single-engine Cessna 208 Caravan, was bound for King Salmon when it crashed almost immediately after taking off at 10 a.m. At least eight of the nine passengers were affiliated with the Bristol Bay Native Association, said the association's chief operating officer Terry Hoefferle.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- An air force cargo plane with nine crewmen aboard crashed into mountains near Rio de Janeiro on Thursday. News reports said rescuers found three bodies before a search was called off.
BROOKWOOD, Ala. (Reuters) - Nine workers missing in an Alabama coal mine were presumed dead as safety concerns forced rescue teams to suspend their efforts after explosions, an official of the mine's parent company said Tuesday.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. singer and actress Aaliyah was killed along with eight other people on Saturday when a small Cessna passenger plane crashed and burst into flames shortly after taking off from an island in the Bahamas, police and U.S. embassy officials said on Sunday.
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (Reuters) - Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines have beheaded four more hostages taking the death toll to nine since the Abu Sayyaf militia attacked a Christian village two days ago.
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Nepal Royal Family Is Shot Dead (AP) - Nepal's crown prince opened fire in the royal palace Friday, killing the king, queen, a prince, and five others before shooting himself, a senior military official said. The official said Crown Prince Dipendra, 30, killed all the members of the royal family. The dead included his parents, King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya, and his younger brother, Prince Nirajan.
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Eight Palestinians, 1 Israeli killed in renewed violence JERUSALEM (AP) -- Explosions, one near Yasser Arafat's headquarters, killed six Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on Monday. A seventh Palestinian died in a clash with Israeli soldiers.
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(Reuters) - A bomb exploded at an open-air concert in the Bangladesh capital on Saturday killing at least nine people and wounding nearly 50, witnesses said. A second blast about 45 minutes later wounded a policeman, they added. The concert, at Dhaka's lush Ramna Park, was part of celebrations marking the Bengali new year and, according to witnesses, had attracted a crowd of about 15,000 people. No group has claimed responsibility.
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HONOLULU (AP) -- As hope for finding survivors faded, officials investigating the sinking of a Japanese fishing boat by a U.S. submarine speculated that nine missing people may have been trapped inside the boat as it plunged to the ocean bottom.
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NABLUS, West Bank (AP) -- Defying an Israeli deadline for a truce, Palestinian gunmen and rock-throwers attacked Israeli soldiers at West Bank friction points on Friday. The Israelis returned fire, killing nine Palestinians in the deadliest day of fighting in two weeks.
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LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Maoist Shining Path rebels killed nine people in two attacks in Peru's jungle and highlands, raising fears of a return of rebel violence in the countryside, police said Friday.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- An American Airlines flight with 145 people aboard skidded off a runway while landing during a gusty hail storm, broke apart and burst into flames. Nine people were killed, including the pilot, and more than 80 were injured.
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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) -- A bomb ripped through Uzbekistan's government headquarters today, followed by a shootout and several other explosions aimed at killing President Islam Karimov. At least nine people were killed and dozens injured in six nearly simultaneous explosions, five of them car bombs, the government said.
COLOMA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- One day after a house fire killed six members of a southwestern Michigan family, including four children, a blaze 15 miles away killed three more children this morning.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - At least nine people were reported killed by flash flooding in the Kansas City area as a violent storm dropped heavy rain and snow across the central United States Monday.