21.   A bodyguard was killed and a district official was badly wounded by an unknown assailant Thursday in the port of Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, police said.

22.   A Canadian peacekeeper at an observation post in southern Croatia narrowly escaped injury early Wednesday during an exchange of gunfire with an unknown assailant, a military spokesman said.

23.   A Cambodian opposition journalist escaped uninjured after unknown assailants fired at his car with a silencer-equipped gun, human rights workers said Monday.

24.   A fresh attack in Istanbul on Thursday claimed the life of a soldier when a paramilitary vehicle ambushed by unknown assailants on a deserted stretch of highway.

25.   A former Taliban official was shot dead by unknown assailants on the main road through the Khyber Pass in northwestern Pakistan, police said Wednesday.

26.   A legislator from the region, Seitkulov Begimkul, told the Salam Azia newspaper that unknown assailants had fired shots from a truck at the crowd on Monday night.

27.   A British patrol also came under small arms attack in Pristina, and unknown assailants targeted a Danish bulldozer with machine gun fire in northern Kosovo near Vucitrn.

28.   A crime reporter for a leading daily newspaper in southeastern Siberia was murdered by unknown assailants, a news agency reported Monday.

29.   A Muslim farmer cutting hay in Bosnian Serb territory was fatally shot by unknown assailants, U.N. police said Friday.

30.   A journalist shot by unknown assailants died Monday in pre-election violence, his newspaper said, while an Islamic moderate became the first to declare his candidacy for president.