11.   They were busy getting their passports renewed for a possible trip to Belgium, she said.

12.   When Birbraer returned to Israel to renew his passport, he was arrested.

13.   Police declined to renew the passport of a leading human-rights activist days before he was shot and wounded, reports said Thursday.

14.   A red-faced passports official guarding the end of the line Tuesday turned away Sonja Cohen of Brooklyn, who needed to renew her passport before leaving for Israel.

15.   After years in Saudi Arabia, many needed to renew their passports to return home.

16.   After years in Saudi Arabia, many Afghans needed to renew their passports to return home.

17.   He said he sneaked into China because Chinese authorities refused to renew his passport.

18.   He is stranded in Germany because Kenyan authorities have refused to renew his passport.

19.   Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry has instructed Yemen embassies abroad not to renew Yemeni passports of people who are not Yemen nationals, a ministry official said.

20.   Most discovered they were no longer Greeks when they tried to renew their passports.