31.   Forty-five French nationals were among the victims, French officials said.

32.   Guerrillas fighting the secular authorities last October warned that foreign nationals were also targets, accused of collaborating with the government.

33.   Interrogation of the arrested persons revealed that two Saudi nationals were also involved in the effort to set up the cell.

34.   India had given Pakistan until Thursday to collect the bodies of the gunmen whom it said were Pakistani nationals -- a charge Islamabad denies.

35.   Israeli medical teams and rescue experts were to leave for the islands, the foreign ministry said in Jerusalem, adding that eight Israeli nationals had been on board.

36.   A foreign ministry statement said the French embassy was in permanent contact with authorities in the republic and that no French nationals had been hurt.

37.   A French national was among two people seriously injured in the attack, the police said.

38.   A Belgian national is among the Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners being detained at the US military base in Cuba, the Belgian foreign ministry said Thursday.

39.   A few days after the arrests, Lebanese Foreign Minister Fares Bweiz confirmed that several Japanese nationals were in custody.

40.   A former Japanese immigration official said Friday that foreign nationals were regularly intimidated and beaten while held in detention, a news report said.