31.   Neighboring Azerbaijan has blocked shipments of oil and natural gas during an eight-year-old conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.

32.   On Thursday, a federal judge refused to block the shipments of weapons-grade plutonium.

33.   Proposed legislation would give state authorities the power to ask federal courts to block shipments to states where they are outlawed.

34.   Rwanda joined Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, who had already imposed sanctions, suspended air traffic and blocked shipments by road and water to and from Burundi.

35.   Rwanda joined Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, who had already imposed sanctions, suspended air traffic and blocked shipments to and from Burundi.

36.   Serb fighters on Friday targeted a Sarajevo streetcar and blocked food shipments from reaching hungry Muslims in eastern Bosnian enclaves.

37.   Solana said a NATO military committee is still discussing proposals for allied warships to block oil shipments to Yugoslavia by stopping and searching ships under threat of force.

38.   Since the fishing agreement expired at the end of last month, fishermen have sporadically blocked shipments of Moroccan fish to other Spanish Mediterranean ports.

39.   Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda have already suspended air traffic and blocked shipments by road and water to and from Burundi.

40.   Some truckers, heartened by the accords, went ahead and started dismantling the barricades that have blocked fuel shipments and caused huge traffic jams across France.