51.  Earlier Wednesday, in a separate attack, Albanian rebels opened sniper fire on police positions in the nearby village of Lucane.

52.  Earlier this month, a Civil Guard officer and a town councilman were killed in separate attacks blamed on Basque separatists.

53.  Eighteen Turkish soldiers were killed in the past week in two separate attacks on military stations by rebels reported to have infiltrated from Iran.

54.  Elsewhere in the state, five civilians were gunned down in separate attacks by unidentified gunmen.

55.  Earlier, two of their checkpoints in the city also came under fire in separate pre-dawn attacks.

56.  Ethnic Albanians, meanwhile, said one of their own died in a separate attack.

57.  Ethnic Albanian officials said one of their own was killed in a separate attack underlying the tit-for-tat nature of the struggle over Kosovo.

58.  Eight people were killed Sunday in a clash between police and extremists in southern Egypt and a separate attack by militants on a civilian, police said.

59.  Even as lawmakers debated, the police reported three separate attacks on European tourists over the weekend.

60.  Families of Israeli diplomats might be called home from Jordan after two Israeli envoys were injured in separate shooting attacks in less than a month, officials said Wednesday.