Word: bloodiest
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...Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli soldiers firing on protesters killed 19, bringing the total for Friday and Saturday to somewhere between 58 and 71, depending on the toll in the mosque; another 250 people were wounded in the riots. Friday was the bloodiest day in the occupied Palestinian lands since Israel conquered them...
...years since the powerful military canceled the first free parliamentary elections to forestall a Muslim fundamentalist victory, Algeria has plunged into its bloodiest crisis since the 1954-62 war of independence from France. The Islamic Salvation Front, seeking to turn the country into a religious state, has attracted the allegiance of millions in a population ripe with discontent after 30 years of misrule by the one-party socialist government. Declining oil revenues, crushing unemployment, rampant inflation and widespread government corruption have fueled a revolt against the old leadership and a crisis in national identity...
...bloodiest takeover battle in years enters its final...
October 4, 1993, was a full news day. In Moscow, Boris Yeltsin stormed the White House with tanks; in Somalia, eighteen Americans were killed in the bloodiest violence yet directed against U.N. forces; in San Fransisco, President Clinton continued his whirlwind tour to pitch his health care plan. Amid all this, one piece of significant news didn't make the networks' evening programs until halfway through the broadcasts: After a 38-year career in the House of Representatives, House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois announced his retirement from politics...
Besieged by hard-line rebels, Russia survives its bloodiest autumn since World War II -- barely...