51.   Also on Saturday, Ebdane said his men arrested three members of another kidnap gang in an entrapment operation in Laguna province, south of Manila.

52.   An imitation firearm, masks, gloves and money were recovered and the men arrested soon after the raid at a petrol filling station in republican West Belfast.

53.   Captain Jean-Pierre Farce, commander of the paramilitary police company here, said his men arrested half a dozen people each year.

54.   Egyptian security men arrested Agha at Cairo airport after receiving a request from the UAE.

55.   Ethiopian radio said earlier quoting radio that the two men arrested after the disaster off the Comoro Islands were not the hijackers after all.

56.   The two other men arrested with Koussa, Abdelkader Maameri and Abdelkader Bouhadjar, told police they had brought supplies several times to Kelkal at his Vaugneray camp.

57.   It said those held included two men arrested at Fiumicino airport after arriving on a flight from Egypt and a number of Algerian nationals.

58.   Last week, Serb authorities released an eighth man arrested after the original seven.

59.   Police did not name the victim or the man arrested following the shooting by three masked men in a Protestant district of Belfast.