■ Jordan
Diplomat killers hanged
Two militants were executed by hanging yesterday for the killing in Amman of a US diplomat. Laurence Foley, a 60-year-old administrator of US aid programs in Jordan, was gunned down outside his Amman home on Oct. 28, 2002. Jordanian authorities have blamed al-Qaeda in Iraq's top operative, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, for Foley's death. The two militants were Salem bin Suweid, a Libyan, and Yasser Freihat, a Jordanian. They were part of an 11-member cell headed by al-Zarqawi.
■ Russia
Eight die in Chechnya unrest
Seven Russian soldiers and a policeman have been killed in a bloody 24 hour period in Chechnya, an official in the region's administration said on Friday. Four soldiers were killed and five others wounded in a string of ambush attacks on federal forces, said the source. In another incident, a soldier was killed when a military vehicle came under fire near a village in the Nozhai-Yurt region. A further two servicemen from a unit stationed near Nozhai-Yurt were killed on Thursday by a grenade that exploded in their hands. In the southern Vedeno region a police unit was ambushed early on Friday, with one policeman killed and another wounded.?
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