1.   OAS officials have said that if the negotiations succeed it will help free hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid suspended after flawed general elections last year.

2.   Scores of people died when Russian troops bungled an attempt to free hundreds of hostages being held by Chechen gunmen in a city hospital.

3.   The OAS has said that if the negotiations succeed it will help free hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid suspended after flawed general elections last year.

4.   They then captured guards who tried to flog them and went on to free hundreds of prisoners from their cells.