21.   Peacekeeping troops in Sarajevo on Sunday started investigating the shooting dead overnight of a Ukrainian soldier who was guarding a warehouse earmarked for the storage of voter ballots.

22.   Police in Northern Ireland investigating the shooting dead of a man by three mased attackers on Tuesday arrested a suspect, police said.

23.   Police said he broke into the home of Federico Kerkoc, a manufacturer of camping equipment, on Thursday evening after shooting dead the family guard dog.

24.   Separately, IFOR officials defended the shooting dead last week of an armed Serb within the separation zone by elite French troops.

25.   Shops, businesses and some schools closed in Nablus on Monday in protest at the shooting dead of three Palestinians by Israeli troops in a week.

26.   Tension between the two ethnic communities has resulted in a spate of recent attacks, including the shooting dead of a Serbian policeman of Albanian origin last week.

27.   That followed reports by Guerin on organised crime, including the shooting dead in Dublin of crime boss Martin Cahill, known as The General.

28.   The latest unrest Saturday saw the shooting dead of Minister of Energy and Mines Ernest Kabushemeye in central Bujumbura.