1.   Agence France-Presse, a global wire service that competes with Reuters and the Associated Press, has opened its first bureau covering Silicon Valley.

2.   That was not the first bureau foul-up in the McVeigh investigation.

3.   Dilan also said the PKK now had a representative office in Greece, which would make it the first such bureau in Europe.

4.   For the first time foreign exchange bureaus approved by the state were also allowed this month to buy foreign currency on the black market.

5.   The group included six Palestinian journalists, some of whom will man the first bureau in Gaza of the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

6.   The launch coincides with the opening of a CNN bureau in Havana, the first bureau of a US news organization on Cuban soil in almost three decades.

7.   The office had been due to open in April, when Israel launched its first interests bureau in Tunis.