31.   The Solidarity led bloc and its junior coalition partner haggled over the justice ministry post Thursday, but signaled they had nearly reached agreement on all Cabinet posts.

32.   The third largest ethnic Albanian party, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, with eight seats in the assembly, will also get two ministry posts.

33.   Gailis takes over the defense ministry post until a successor is named.

34.   General Sava Zhendov, former head of security for the presidency and parliament, is to be given the interior ministry post.

35.   He agreed to share out ministry posts with the opposition but the rebels said that while they welcomed the move they still wanted him to step down.

36.   He held a score of key ministry posts, including director-general of the basic industry bureau and the machinery and information industries bureau.

37.   Berisha agreed to share out ministry posts with the opposition but the rebels said that while they welcomed the move they still wanted him to step down.

38.   The reshuffle of the top ministry posts came six months before expiration of their second one-year terms at the end of June.

39.   The Russian military command said one Russian soldier was killed and eight were wounded when Chechen separatists attacked two defence ministry posts in southeastern Chechnya overnight.

40.   They will be replaced by two RPP deputies, Hassan Farah Miguil for the justice ministry post and Abdallah Chirwa Djibril, for the defense ministry.