11.   A special agency in charge of collecting and processing materials containing precious metals is to be established, Karpov told the agency.

12.   A mission control official told the agency Linenger and his colleague Vasily Tsibliyev will spend more than five hours outside the station.

13.   However, Capt. Sam Sesing, the police spokesman, told the agency he did not see any officers among the protesters.

14.   However, Fleischer did not say which agencies were told or what they did in response.

15.   If all goes well, Schenk told the agency, Sykora could resume training in six to nine months.

16.   Most of the dead were children whose homes collapsed, the head of the Natural Disasters Headquarters, Hasan Momtahen, told the agency.

17.   One person was taken in for questioning but later released, police told the agency.

18.   One women told the agency she felt an explosion and ran out into the street to find splintered chairs and tables near the intersection where the accident occurred.

19.   Some villages had been attacked by MiG fighter jets, he told the agency.

20.   Some of the victims also were Polish tourists who were part of another group, witnesses told the agency.