31.   The killings came on the eve of a visit to the capital Algiers by a fact-finding mission of lawmakers from the European Parliament.

32.   The killings come in the middle of a two-month stalemate in Middle East peace talks.

33.   The killings come just hours after authorities discovered the bodies of five other men, all executed with a bullet to the back of the head.

34.   The killings on Saturday came a day after another governing party activist was shot dead in a crowded market in western Bangladesh.

35.   The killing also came at a time of protracted ethnic fighting in Karachi.

36.   The killing came the day after the senator, known for his fiery temperament, failed to block an amendment to a controversial gaming law that he wrote.

37.   The killing comes just days before Gbetie was to leave Haiti.

38.   The killings came a day after the militants blew up two large oil depots in the capital.

39.   The killings came amid violence between tribal and non-tribal groups in the thickly forested mountainous region.

40.   The killings came as ULFA claimed responsibility for sabotaging an oil depot of the state-owned Indian Oil Corp. on Tuesday.