1.   Chaplains and guard officers were on hand to offer counseling and information on burial plans, life insurance and other needs, Magaldi said.

2.   Guard officers lined up the observers for execution, and refrained from shooting only when their foot soldiers intervened.

3.   A Civil guard officer killed himself in a car explosion after he blew up a small bomb strapped to his stomach, the regional Interior Ministry said.

4.   In parliament on Tuesday, legislators listened attentively as Melnichenko, the guard officer, described how he secretly taped Kuchma and later gave selected excerpts to Moroz.

5.   Most of the teens performed small tasks like carrying supplies, cooking and helping guard senior officers.

6.   Five former border guard officers meanwhile went on trial in Berlin Friday accused of installing particularly deadly fragmentation mines along the frontier with West Germany.

7.   A pan-Islamic militant group has formed suicide squads to attack a forthcoming Hindu pilgrimage in troubled Indian-Kashmir, a top border guard officer said Wednesday.

8.   A Russian border guard officer was killed on Wednesday in a clash with Chinese frog hunters near the Russian-Chinese border, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.

9.   A Russian border guard officer was killed on Wednesday in an armed clash on the Russian-Chinese border, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.

10.   Another border guard officer was injured in the shoot-out.