21.   Municipal employees will begin receiving hazard pay in Zamboanga City following a series of terrorist attacks, the acting mayor said Wednesday.

22.   Municipal employees will begin receiving hazard pay in Zamboanga City, an important southern Philippine city, following a series of terrorist attacks, the acting mayor said Wednesday.

23.   On Friday, Judge Caridad Cuerdo ruled that Cuneta can remain in office until June and Trinidad may only serve as acting mayor when Cuneta is not present.

24.   Regional governor Yevgeny Nazdratenko named Yuri Kopylov acting mayor on Monday, Russian news reports said.

25.   The acting mayor of a Siberian town was shot dead by unidentified assailants as he left his home for work on Wednesday, a news report said.

26.   The acting mayor of Ciudad Juarez has suspended two city officers implicated along with state and federal police in the kidnapping and torture-murder of four men.

27.   The plans were part of efforts by new acting mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko to revive the historic city and attract much-needed foreign investment.

28.   This week the acting mayor of Rio named a street in a fashionable beach district in her honor.

29.   Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma tightened his grip over the unruly port city of Odessa on Tuesday, appointing a deputy prime minister to serve as acting mayor.

30.   Viorel Lis, the acting mayor, and Sorin Oprescu, a respected surgeon from a leftist opposition party, have the best chances.