31.   Rumours spread earlier this week that Sumeth and Suthep held negotiations after the former insisted he would quit the TOT board.

32.   Somali elders on Wednesday launched negotiations hours after gunmen took away seven Red Cross workers, a Somali and two pilots when their aircraft landed in north Mogadishu.

33.   She said one of her main aims is to restart Israeli-Syrian negotiations after a three-year breakoff.

34.   Somali elders on Wednesday launched negotiations hours after the gunmen took away seven Red Cross workers, a Somali and two pilots when their aircraft landed in north Mogadishu.

35.   Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar reportedly escaped during surrender negotiations after being surrounded in the mountainous north of Kandahar.

36.   The bottom fell out of the negotiations after several failed attempts at compromise by political foes.

37.   The announcement came after a key Macedonian party returned to negotiations after temporarily backing out of the talks.

38.   The dispute came as the United States appeared to be stepping up its involvement in the negotiations after weeks of letting the two sides fend for themselves.

39.   The head of the Palestinian negotiating team, Ahmed Qureia, said his side was prepared to return to negotiations after the election.

40.   The Indo-Pakistan bilateral meeting capped a progression that began in March when senior diplomats resumed negotiations after a three-year suspension.