31.   Israeli fighter-bombers flew over the cities of Sidon and Tyre in mid-morning, AFP correspondents also reported.

32.   A general strike in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who are fasting for freedom paralyzed the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, correspondents reported.

33.   A few protesters who began to hurl stones at the Israeli forces were quickly calmed down by Moslem religious authorities, AFP correspondents reported.

34.   A general alert was sounded in Zagreb Thursday afternoon but no explosions were heard, an AFP correspondent reported.

35.   A local doctor said five wounded civilians who were brought to Shali from Mekhketi on Tuesday later died, the correspondent reported.

36.   A loud explosion was heard in a working-class district of the Algerian capital Algiers on Thursday, an AFP correspondent reported.

37.   A Red Cross ship unloaded medical supplies in Aden on Sunday and evacuated civilians as the port came under fire from northern artillery, correspondents reported.

38.   A new salvo of Katyusha rockets fell on northern Israel late Thursday causing damage but no casualties, an AFP correspondent reported.

39.   A photographer for the French photo agency Sipa covering the war in Chechnya was wounded by shrapnel at the bus station in Grozny, correspondents there reported Thursday.

40.   A top NATO commander in Bosnia and the acting Bosnian Serb president flew Tuesday to inspect a Bosnian Serb weapons site at Han Pijesak, an AFP correspondent reported.