31.   Earlier Tuesday, before the truce was announced, a Palestinian farmer was killed.

32.   Eight white farmers have been killed in the violent campaign.

33.   Elsewhere, a Serb farmer was killed and his brother injured early Friday when a missile struck their house in the northern Kosovo village of Kursumlija, Tanjug reported.

34.   Elsewhere, a Serb farmer was killed and his brother injured early Friday when a missile struck their house in Kursumlija, north of Kosovo, according to Tanjug.

35.   Gunmen killed two farmers on Wednesday as they walked through their village in southern Egypt.

36.   He said several farmers were killed earlier this year in similar incidents.

37.   However, at the beginning of the campaign last month, security forces shot and killed eight farmers who were protesting the state poppy policy in Helmand province.

38.   Hours before South African President Thabo Mbeki and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo arrived for the talks, a white farmer was killed in escalating postelection violence.

39.   In escalating violence, a white farmer is killed.

40.   In new violence, a Palestinian farmer was killed and three Israeli soldiers wounded in shootings in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.