21.   In one attack, Chechen gunmen seized a car full of Russian riot troops and killed three of them, the Russian military command reported.

22.   Israeli riot troops opened fire on Palestinian stone throwers outside a West Bank high school Thursday and five students were wounded, hospital officials said.

23.   Manchete TV showed footage of riot troops with rubber batons and metal poles pushing and beating men and women and carrying away bleeding demonstrators.

24.   Lukashenko has sent riot troops against rebellious legislators and strike leaders, and he uses the press to lash out at political opponents and at the press itself.

25.   Mobs of striking Romanian coal miners stormed through police lines Thursday, attacking riot troops with clubs and homemade explosives.

26.   Officials said the prisoners decided to end the rebellion after riot troops threatened to storm the penitentiary.

27.   One group seized a metal barrier and rammed it into a line of riot troops.

28.   Riot troops in this Far East city carried out an anti-terrorist exercise by seizing the TV station, threatening the staff and roughing the place up a bit.

29.   Riot troops on Monday guarded the office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, where the talks were held.

30.   Riot troops patrolled streets and activists were arrested last week after the government banned a protest rally.