21.   Gunmen kidnapped a German woman from her home near the city of Medellin on Friday.

22.   Gunmen kidnapped a Russian sailor off a train passing through Chechnya on Friday, a week after a Russian police general was abducted in the breakaway republic.

23.   Gunmen kidnapped a Somali and nine foreign aid workers in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.

24.   Gunmen kidnapped a Somali employee of the World Health Organization from his home earlier this week, a U.N. official said Friday.

25.   Gunmen kidnapped the three men, who were trying to keep the civilian population out of the armed conflict.

26.   His office said the gunmen also kidnapped seven people.

27.   In one incident Wednesday night, Palestinian gunmen kidnapped two Israeli border policemen and only released them after Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and PLO chief Yasser Arafat intervened.

28.   In the past, gunmen have kidnapped aid workers because they believed their subclans were not getting enough jobs or goods from aid agencies.

29.   In the latest violence in the region, unidentified gunmen kidnapped two civilians from Di Blang Pidie village in southern Aceh on Friday.

30.   Khmer Rouge gunmen kidnapped Australian David Wilson, Briton Mark Slater and Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet during a July attack on a Cambodian train.