31.   Police in a far west Chinese region rocked by a series of terrorist attacks have arrested a group of suspects and seized firearms, an official newspaper reported.

32.   Police in southern Sindh province blamed the killing of six policemen and three civilians on a family blood feud, English-language newspapers reported Wednesday.

33.   Party leaders refused to allow the statement to be read, relenting only when Mandela threatened to distribute it to the media, the newspaper reported.

34.   Police seized more money and jewelry from bank lockers of a former telecommunications minister accused of favoring some companies with lucrative government contracts, newspapers reported Wednesday.

35.   Policed arrested a Martinique man after he fired shots into a crowd of Christmas carolers, injuring three people, a local newspaper reported Wednesday.

36.   Preparations will begin soon on holding a non-proliferation forum later this summer, possibly in the city of Hiroshima, Japanese evening newspapers reported.

37.   President Lee Teng-hui plans a trip to a Caribbean country following visits to El Salvador and Panama in September, a newspaper reported Sunday.

38.   President Robert Mugabe vowed to seize more white-owned land, effectively nationalizing hundreds of farms, a state controlled newspaper reported Sunday.

39.   Police are investigating reports of a child prostitution racket involving foreign nationals, a newspaper reported Thursday.

40.   Police have arrested two Thai and two Cameroonian men for swindling people by claiming to teach them how to counterfeit U.S. dollars, Thai newspapers reported Friday.