21.   The Bush administration is considering providing more aid to Colombia now that its peace talks with the main leftist guerrilla group has broken down.

22.   The bombings came two days after an announcement that peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians would resume after a nearly four-month break.

23.   The Marxists say they will only back peace talks if the rebels publicly give up their demand for an independent nation.

24.   The MQM has threatened to push for a separate ethnic province if peace talks now underway with the government fail.

25.   U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher meets Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus and emerges hopeful about unblocking peace talks between Israel and Syria.

26.   Zaire peace talks to begin in South Africa.

27.   Earlier this week Foreign Minister Maigore Kallon said that peace talks between the government and rebels would resume shortly in Ivory Coast.

28.   Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy reportedly began the initiative to kick-start the peace talks, frozen for almost a year.

29.   It also coincides with the start of a regional mission by US Secretary of State Warren Christopher to help kick-start the stalled peace talks between Syria and Israel.