1.   But support for statehood has picked up steam on the island since then, fueled in part by the popularity of pro-statehood Gov. Pedro Rossello.

2.   Few tourists have ventured onto the island since then.

3.   A bomb destroyed the car of an anti-terrorist judge early Tuesday, continuing the nightly ritual of blasts that has shaken the island since late July, police said.

4.   A pair of lighthouses and territorial markers erected by Japanese rightists have been the target of several protest voyages to the islands since July.

5.   A moment of silence to remember the victims was observed early Friday on a flight from Oslo, the first plane to fly into the islands since the crash.

6.   Bougainville rebels announced Tuesday they will release five Papua New Guinea soldiers held hostage on the island since September.

7.   But his trip to Cyprus was his first to the island since being appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton to solve the Cyprus problem.

8.   Chinese forces have been holding exercises near the island since Tuesday and have test-fired four missiles over the past eight days.

9.   Human rights abuses and a war by rebels have plagued the southern Indonesian island since the invasion.

10.   Last week a group of Turks and Turkish Cypriots killed two unarmed Greek Cypriot demonstrators in the buffer zone that has divided the island since the Turkish invasion.