1.   In another attack, suspected separatists shot three Hindus at point-blank range early Tuesday in the southern Kashmir district of Udhampur, police said.

2.   It was unclear if the separatists shot arrows at police before the officers opened fire.

3.   Military officials speculated that separatists could have shot down the plane with a missile.

4.   Military officials said the separatists could have shot down the plane with a missile.

5.   Military officials said the Tamil Tiger separatists could have shot down the plane with a missile.

6.   Separatists shot a physician and nurse to death as they rode in a police truck in the troubled Indonesian province of Aceh on Thursday, police said.

7.   Suspected Basque separatists shot and killed one police officer and wounded another Friday in this northern Basque city.

8.   Suspected Muslim separatists shot dead at least nine Hindu villagers in a remote mountainous area of Jammu-Kashmir state, police said Thursday.

9.   Suspected Basque separatists shot a policeman Monday at the Guggenheim Museum, which King Juan Carlos opens next weekend.

10.   In an all-night battle, separatists shot at an interior ministry forces command post near a bridge over the Sunzha river in Grozny.