41.   He also said that similar operations by troops on Friday and Saturday, in Alue Lhok and Manyak Payed, left three civilians shot dead.

42.   Heavily armed rebels overnight shot dead two politicians -- both members of the local ruling Telugu Desam Party -- in the Guntur and Karimnagar districts of the state.

43.   He was the third Palestinian shot dead by soldiers in Hebron this month.

44.   In a new attack Thursday Tamil Tiger guerrillas stormed an isolated police post on the edge of their planned homeland and shot dead six policemen, police said.

45.   In a further two incidents the leader of an Islamic charity was murdered and a leading South Korean businessman reported shot dead in the Algerian capital.

46.   In both cases the drivers were found shot dead in Sarajevo and their cars are missing.

47.   In the southeastern province of Kahramanmaras, PKK members kidnapped and shot dead four civilians, the agency said.

48.   Indian troops have shot dead six separatist Muslim militants in Indian-administered Kashmir, a police spokesman said Thursday.

49.   Indian border guards shot dead four Moslem guerrillas here Monday following a failed grenade attack on a police officer, officials said.

50.   Indian border guards shot dead two Moslem militants here Monday after a failed grenade attack on a police officer, officials said.