21.   An official in the provincial capital, Urumqi, said the latest blizzards had disrupted transport and telecommunications links with all three prefectures for a second time.

22.   The tanks were still in place late Wednesday, disrupting public transport in the area, the sources said.

23.   Its epicentre was located at the southern part of Ibaraki prefecture, the same spot as that of the quake which disrupted transport.

24.   Khan said factory workers, living mostly in violence-hit areas, could not reach their places of work as disturbances had disrupted public transport.

25.   Soldiers are under shoot-on-sight orders to foil any rebel attempts to block roads and disrupt public transport during the strike.

26.   Snowstorms cut virtually all air traffic to Paris on Tuesday as wintry weather disrupted transport in the west and north of the country, killing three people.

27.   Soldiers are under orders to shoot-on-sight any rebels who attempt to block roads and disrupt public transport during the strike.

28.   Strike activists barricaded roads and rail tracks, disrupting transport between this southeastern port city and the capital Dhaka, local officials said.

29.   Southern Sweden was also affected on Sunday and Monday by snowstorms which disrupted transport, but no casualties were reported.

30.   Strikers in the north and centre said later they were going back to the roadblocks which have disrupted commercial transport in and out of Greece.