91.   International mediators, at a weekend meeting in Moscow, threatened economic sanctions against the former warring parties if the prisoners are not freed by Sunday.

92.   Israel traditionally frees prisoners in advance of Muslim holidays.

93.   It added all prisoners would be freed before the end of this month.

94.   It also frees prisoners with tuberculosis, which has spread rapidly in recent years in prisons around the former Soviet Union.

95.   It is unclear when the prisoners will be freed.

96.   It said the president and his ministers had resigned, all political prisoners had been freed, and resistance to the coup had ended.

97.   Israel army radio said the prisoners would be freed next week.

98.   Israel said negotiators are to agree on which prisoners should be freed, according to guidelines set down by Israel.

99.   Israel will offer to free Egyptian prisoners in return for the release of an Israeli man convicted of espionage in Egypt, Israeli army radio reported.

100.   It was not immediately known if the Serb side would free rebel prisoners in return, as the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army had demanded.