21.   Political violence that has plagued Yemen since elections this week left five more people dead and five injured Friday, security officials said.

22.   Patasse paid the late salaries after the April violence and promised amnesty to mutineers, whose uprising lasted three days and left at least nine people dead.

23.   Police clashed with pro-reform demonstrators in several Kenyan towns Monday, leaving at least seven people dead and hundreds injured.

24.   A bloody ethnic-related shooting Sunday in a poor district of southern Karachi left eight people dead, including two young girls, police said.

25.   A day after angry confrontations left at least two people dead, Bosnian Serbs blocked hundreds more Muslim refugees from visiting homes and cemeteries on Tuesday.

26.   A clash between two rival gangs in the Tajik capital left two people dead and one wounded, officials said Friday.

27.   A German truck driver appeared in court Thursday, accused of causing a highway pileup that left four people dead.

28.   A bloody ethnic-related shooting in a poor district of southern Karachi left eight people dead, including two young girls, police said.

29.   A clash in Yemen between soldiers and men in a truck hauling honey left four people dead and two injured, police officials said on Sunday.

30.   A daytime shootout between police and robbers with hostages left three people dead and nine wounded in an upper-class residential neighborhood.