21.   Yassin was freed as part of a swap to free two Israeli Mossad agents caught trying to assassinate another Hamas leader in Jordan.

22.   He made no mention of the US hostages, but suggested Yap would be freed as part of a deal with a Filipino politician, Chavit Singson.

23.   If freed as expected, she says her plan is to re-marry her Ibrahim, her first husband, whose mother has died.

24.   Hundreds of hostages held in the Budennovsk hospital since Wednesday were freed as the guerrillas departed.

25.   As they distributed leaflets announcing a time for the conference, they were grabbed by APEC security officers, but freed as fellow journalists swarmed around them.

26.   But also participating in the demonstration outside parliament was a communist guerrilla leader freed as part of separate peace talks with the insurgents.

27.   Formal peace negotiations in Brussels ended in June after the rebels insisted jailed communist guerrilla field commander Sotero Llamas be freed as a precondition for the discussions.

28.   The United States threatened sanctions Monday if all Bosnian prisoners of war were not freed as required under the Dayton peace accord signed late last year.