51.   Suspected right-wing paramilitary gunmen kidnapped the head of a parliamentary peace commission as she drove on a road in northwest Colombia, authorities said Sunday.

52.   The gunmen also allegedly kidnapped three young men in northern Grozny Monday night.

53.   The ICRC stopped its operations in Somalia last April after a small planeload of its international staff was kidnapped by gunmen and later freed unharmed in Mogadishu.

54.   The president of the Bogota Stock Exchange was kidnapped by gunmen at his country home outside the capital, a police source said Monday, confirming radio reports.

55.   Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a Russian military official in Chechnya, Russian news agencies reported Thursday, amid mounting tension in the breakaway southern republic.

56.   Unidentified gunmen kidnapped five aid workers in the self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland, the United Nations said Saturday.

57.   Unidentified gunmen kidnapped the family of a Taiwanese businessman in the southern Philippines, where suspected Muslim rebels abducted an Italian missionary a day earlier, police said Thursday.

58.   Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a chairman of an Islamic court on his way to the mosque for morning prayers in southern Mogadishu, witnesses said Tuesday.

59.   Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a Russian officer following a confrontation on the border with Chechnya, a news agency reported Wednesday.

60.   Gunmen kidnapped a German woman, her son, and their Colombian driver and maid outside Medellin Friday, police said.