21.   In Bosnia, NATO postponed Indian Summer, a routine military exercise that had been planned for next week.

22.   Pakistan Foreign Ministry, however, said the planes were shifted for a routine exercise.

23.   One policeman was killed and seven others wounded Monday when a mine exploded during a routine training exercise, the state news agency HINA reported.

24.   Other than that, it was a routine exercise in statutory construction.

25.   South Korea dismissed what was going on in the North as a routine military exercise.

26.   Signaling it does not want to be involved in any potential military confrontation between Syria and Turkey, Israel is limiting routine exercises along its own border with Syria.

27.   Taiwan has scaled down and postponed a routine military exercise planned for next month in a bid to ease tensions with China, the Defense Ministry announced Friday.

28.   The army said the Patriots were part of a routine exercise.

29.   The fifth-seeded Pierce strained her back Monday while throwing a medicine ball during routine stretching exercises.

30.   The ministry said the jet had been on a routine training exercise.