1.   New agencies quoted a Kunduz Taliban commander, Mullah Faizal, as saying that his forces would surrender, including the non-Afghans.

2.   Pavel Borodin was to meet with Swiss prosecutors on Monday but will refuse to answer questions, the agency quoted his lawyers as saying.

3.   Patrol boats seized the tankers on Monday and Tuesday, the agency quoted Isa Golverdi, a naval zone commander in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, as saying.

4.   A subsequent plan to launch big balloons carrying infrared cameras to search for the wild man failed, the agency quoted team leader Wang Fangchen as saying.

5.   After peace talks with rebel leaders in Moscow, Russian President Boris Yeltsin promised to secure her release, the agency quoted Chechen sources as saying.

6.   At the same time, the agency quoted unnamed veterinary officials as saying that U.S. poultry would be subject to stricter controls because of continuing concerns about its quality.

7.   Bernd Stange was replaced by national coach Rasheed Jaber, the agency quoted the head of the association as saying.

8.   Both agencies quoted unidentified Chechen government officials.

9.   But the agency also quoted the Russian military press center as denying that the Chechens had retaken Vedeno.

10.   But the agency quoted military commanders as saying that these exercises, dubbed Zulfiqar, were the biggest by Iran or any country in the Middle East.