1.   Baghdad stalled proceedings in protest of U.N. distribution methods it said were unsatisfactory.

2.   Republicans have also criticized Clinton for what they believe is an effort to stall the proceedings until next year, when Republicans will hold an even slimmer majority.

3.   Republicans said they saw the White House move as an effort to stall the proceedings until January, when a new Congress, with five more Democrats, convenes.

4.   When the Rome conference ended, the Security Council was left with the power to stall proceedings but not prevent them.

5.   While the Indian government said it was satisfied, opposition politicians stalled proceedings in the Indian Parliament demanding that the government challenge the patent.

6.   A controversy over quotas for women politicians stalled proceedings in the Indian parliament for the second straight morning Tuesday.

7.   Fugitive Mexican banker Carlos Cabal Peniche and his brother-in-law, both imprisoned in Australia, are trying to stall extradition proceedings against them, a court heard Tuesday.

8.   Gerard Boulanger said he would put the case to the European Court of Human Rights and predicted France will be found guilty of stalling the proceedings.

9.   However, there were noisy scenes in Parliament as opposition lawmakers stalled proceedings in the House accusing the government of failing to contain the violence and protect Muslims.

10.   Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday fired his flamboyant foreign minister and her top deputy over a feud that has stalled parliamentary proceedings.