31.   Elsewhere, militants killed four villagers near Bernine, in the Medea area, on Monday, La Tribune reported.

32.   Four suspected Muslim militants killed a police guard and wounded two other people Saturday in southern Egypt.

33.   French government confirms militants kill third hostage on jetliner in Algeria.

34.   He made the comments in the town of Rafiabad during the funeral of a legislator killed by militants, The Observer and the Urdu-language Uqab newspaper said.

35.   He called for a peaceful resolution of the crisis in the contested Presevo Valley, where ethnic Albanian militants killed four Serb police last month.

36.   Hours after the Israeli strikes, Hezbollah militants killed a soldier, the sixth in two weeks.

37.   In another effort to undermine talks on Palestinian autonomy, Palestinian militants killed an Israeli security guard in the PLO-ruled Gaza Strip on Monday.

38.   In a hail of gunfire, the militants killed six men, including two Muslim customers.

39.   In Boudjelal el-Ghorf, alleged Islamic militants killed the local chief of the GLD, a civilian defense force armed by authorities, Le Matin daily reported.

40.   In addition to Deputy Inspector General S. K. Chakravorty, the militants also killed three other soldiers and the wife of one soldier.