21.   President Omar el-Bashir said several officials were killed, including the vice president, Maj. Gen. Zubair Mohamed Saleh.

22.   A municipal official has been killed by a car bomb in southern Bulgaria, newspapers and police said Wednesday.

23.   A Palestinian intelligence official is killed in a car explosion, hospital officials and witnesses said.

24.   A high French government official was killed by two gunmen on the violence-torn island of Corsica Friday evening, police said.

25.   A local government official was killed when a land mine exploded Friday under an International Organization for Migration truck in northwest Rwanda, the Geneva-based agency said.

26.   A Palestinian intelligence official was killed in a car explosion Saturday, hospital officials and witnesses said.

27.   A Palestinian intelligence official was killed in a car explosion, hospital officials and witnesses said.

28.   A senior army official has been killed during a gun battle between rebel militia and government forces, his family said Thursday.

29.   A senior security official was killed in his home in the mountains outside the capital of Chechnya, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Saturday.

30.   A news report Wednesday said two security officials were killed in what the government suspects was retaliation for the crackdown.