1.   Both parties say the better approach is to back new neighborhood-based programs designed to reduce, not eliminate, punishment attacks.

2.   Gunmen shot a man to death early Sunday on the stairs of his Belfast apartment building in what police said appeared to be a punishment attack by paramilitaries.

3.   He had previously been shot in the legs by the IRA in a so-called punishment attack.

4.   The Russian army lobbed shells into Samashki on Wednesday, a day after surrounding and devastating the village in a calculated punishment attack, officials said.

5.   The Russian army surrounded and devastated the village of Samashki in western Chechnya in a calculated punishment attack, residents said Wednesday.

6.   Thirty-five people have been charged in connection with the punishment attacks, police said.

7.   Three other men were also shot and wounded overnight in the city what was described as a punishment attack.

8.   Two men were injured in two separate paramilitary punishment attacks on Saturday night in the Mount Vernon district of north Belfast, the Royal Ulster Constabulary said Sunday.