21.   The number of Egyptian women who die during pregnancy and childbirth is twice as high as the official maternal mortality rate, a health ministry report said Wednesday.

22.   The surge was partly due to the approval of six giant projects worth more than one billion dollars each, the ministry report said.

23.   The two Nepalese were not identified in the ministry report.

24.   Violence in the Palestinian territories has gone down in the past two weeks, according to an Israeli foreign ministry top secret report cited by Israeli public radio Sunday.

25.   It was impossible to independently confirm the defense ministry report.

26.   Korean log yards are reported to be heavily stocked, the ministry report said.

27.   The health ministry report found the birth of baby boys had rapidly outpaced that of girls, adding to a numerical imbalance between the sexes.

28.   The judge in the case, Said Mirza, made the decision after receiving a foreign ministry report confirming the three had diplomatic status.

29.   The ministry report claimed the majority of the defectors were escaping prosecution for economic crimes and made no mention of political considerations.