21.   Israel refused to confirm or deny it killed Karmi, who escaped an assassination bid in September when Israeli helicopters fired at his vehicle and killed two other people.

22.   A military spokesman here confirmed the assassination bid but could not give more details or the date of the incident.

23.   An Algerian high school superintendent was killed by suspected Moslem fundamentalists and a journalist survived an assassination bid, newspapers here reported Tuesday.

24.   Assassination bids will also rock Lebanon.

25.   Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed survived an assassination bid when security agents foiled the plot, a report said Saturday.

26.   Chechen separatists said the assassination bid was set up by Moscow hardliners who wanted a resumption in fighting in the breakaway Caucasus republic.

27.   Despite the assassination bid, Greek-Macedonian normalization were to continue in Athens, a Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.

28.   Egypt also tried to defuse a row with Ethopia by denying it had accused the Addis Ababa security forces of acting as accomplices in the assassination bid.

29.   Egyptian investigators have gone to Addis Ababa to follow the enquiries into the assassination bid, an Egyptian police source said.

30.   Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak escapes an assassination bid by Islamic militants in Addis Ababa which accused Sudan of being behind.