In West, Texas, which is near Waco, a fertilizer plant exploded on Wednesday, killing at least five people, injuring more than 160, and leveling homes, apartments and a school.
An investigation into claims that a US nuclear submarine accidentally sank a French fishing boat in 2004, killing five sailors, is to be reopened.
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On March 12, a Black Hawk helicopter crashed outside Kandahar, killing five U.S. troops.
Yet even with these losses, the airline industry has figured out how to move millions of spoiled, complaining Americans like me every day inside of tens of thousands of flying metal tubes without killing a single person in four of the past five years.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) One of the Philippines' most active volcanoes spewed huge rocks and ash after daybreak Tuesday, killing at least five climbers and trapping more than a dozen others near the crater in its first eruption in three years, officials said.
Earlier, a policeman found guilty at Cairo Criminal Court of killing 18 protesters was sentenced to five years in jail.
However, Syria's military said Wednesday and again Thursday in state-run media that Israel had struck at a defense research facility near the capital of Damascus, killing two workers and injuring five others.
Just 30 meters away is a polling station run by Buth Chhay Hoeung, a 45-year-old teacher who lost his mother and five siblings to the killing fields.
Lebanese soldiers stepped up an artillery attack Monday on a crowded Palestinian refugee camp thought to house militants linked to al-Qaida, killing at least five civilians.
Meanwhile, one of five American soldiers accused of killing Afghan civilians for sport pleaded guilty and was given a 24-year prison sentence.
Meanwhile, Argentina's highest criminal court has confirmed the dismissal of a trial against former President Fernando de la Rua, who was accused of being responsible for the killing of five protesters in 2001.
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