11.   Leftist guerrillas have freed an American backpacker kidnapped in Colombia last month, authorities said Sunday.

12.   Leftist guerrillas freed three Colombian journalists and three local officials Wednesday after taking them hostage earlier in the week, authorities said.

13.   On Friday, guerrillas freed police Cmdr. Luis Valencia Hirano, an anti-terrorism officer who the Red Cross said needed medical care.

14.   The guerrillas freed most of the captives hours later.

15.   The guerrillas immediately freed three of the nine to relay their ransom demands.

16.   The soldiers surrendered and the guerrillas freed them at a hamlet schoolhouse.

17.   Meanwhile police in Colombo said Friday that Tamil guerrillas had freed two police hostages who have been on an indefinite hunger strike.

18.   Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin calls on the guerrillas to free their hostages.

19.   Tamil Tiger guerrillas Tuesday freed nine Sinhalese fishermen captured by them several years ago in northern Sri Lanka, official sources here said.

20.   The convoy is blocked at the Dagestani-Chechen border near the village of Pervomaiskaya, where the guerrillas free seven hostages, including the two ministers.