1.   It has negotiated agreements with Hong Kong to facilitate extradition, legal assistance and prisoner transfers, each of which require Senate ratification.

2.   The agreements, which still need Senate ratification to be implemented, cover prisoner transfers, mutual legal assistance and extradition.

3.   The accords would facilitate extradition, prisoner transfers and mutual legal assistance.

4.   The accords, which still need Senate ratification to be implemented, facilitate prisoner transfers, mutual legal assistance and extradition.

5.   This time, after noticing a flaw in prisoner transfers, he managed to slip from his cell into a deserted room.

6.   Yet comments made earlier this month by General Tommy Franks, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, support the notion of a prisoner transfer.

7.   A spokesman for the faction of ethnic Uzbek warlord Gen. Rashid Dostum, who handled the prisoner transfer, did not contradict the reports of possible deaths.

8.   And a prisoner transfer is only possible if the crime is punishable in both countries.

9.   In Jerusalem, Israeli and Palestinian officials met to finalize the Ramallah withrawal and the prisoner transfer, a Palestinian security official said.

10.   Later Wednesday, Israeli and Palestinian teams met in Jerusalem to finalize the arrangements for the prisoner transfer and the Israel pullback from Ramallah, Palestinian security officials said.