41.   Kashmiri separatist rebels holding four Westerners hostage Sunday renewed their threat to kill the captives if the government continued to reject their demands, a news agency reported.

42.   Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has renewed his threat to deport Palestinians, insisting he is offering them the chance to go home rather than to live as refugees.

43.   Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has renewed his threat to deport Palestinians, insisting that he is offering them the chance to go home rather than to live as refugees.

44.   Meanwhile, European Union officials renewed threats to withdraw economic aid from any parties to the Balkan peace accord that do not cooperate fully with the tribunal.

45.   NATO met Sunday and demanded that Serb-led government forces stop their assault against ethnic Albanian rebels, but did not immediately renew the threat.

46.   Muslim separatists demanded talks with the Philippine government Monday after renewing threats to kill an American hostage who they said is growing gravely ill.

47.   North Korea recently renewed its threat to restart its nuclear program.

48.   On Monday, China renewed its threats to Taiwan, saying it might attack if Taiwanese leaders indefinitely refuse to talk unification.

49.   President Franjo Tudjman on Sunday renewed a threat to evict U.N. peacekeepers, and said he would not resume internationally-mediated negotiations with a rebel Serb leader.

50.   President Franjo Tudjman renewed a threat Sunday to evict U.N. peacekeepers and said he would not resume internationally mediated negotiations with the rebel Serb leader.