51.   Ikeda flew to Lima on Thursday and held talks with President Alberto Fujimori and others on the crisis in which leftist guerrillas are holding hostages at the diplomatic compound.

52.   In the frontline western village of Stary Achkhoi, which still comes under Russian artillery fire despite a two-month old ceasefire, guerrillas are holding another deserter.

53.   Abu Sayyaf guerrillas are still holding a US missionary couple and a Filipina nurse somewhere in the Muslim-majority south of the Philippines.

54.   Abu Sayyaf Muslim guerrillas are holding a US Christian missionary couple hostage on Basilan island in the south.

55.   Allied to the al-Qaeda network of alleged international terrorist Osama bin Laden, Abu Sayyaf guerrillas are holding captive a US Christian missionary couple on the island.

56.   Chechen guerrillas hold dozens of hostages and are demanding the release of Chechens taken prisoner during recent fighting in the neighbouring Russian republic of Dagestan.

57.   The village where Chechen guerrillas have held scores of hostages since Wednesday was not the only place cut off.

58.   Khmer Rouge guerrillas are holding Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet, Briton Mark Slater and Australian David Wilson.

59.   Philippine military troops on Tuesday prepared to invade an island held by guerrillas of the main Moslem insurgent group in violation of a ceasefire with the government.

60.   President Boris Yeltsin, on a pre-election campaign swing through southern Russia, Wednesday visited the hospital in Budennovsk where Chechen guerrillas held hundreds of civilians hostage last June.