1.   Police found dozens of grenades in an apartment abandoned by suspected Basque separatists wanted in the kidnap death of a politician, a news agency reported Thursday.

2.   A governing party town councilor who allegedly made up a story about his kidnapping by suspected Basque separatists insisted Sunday his abduction tale was true.

3.   A shootout erupted Wednesday in a narrow downtown street between suspected ETA Basque separatists and Civil Guard police, leaving two men dead and an officer wounded.

4.   A suspected Basque separatist died Tuesday when a bomb she was handling exploded inside a beach house in southeastern Spain, the government said.

5.   A POLICE team has finished gathering evidence against three suspected Muslim separatists who were arrested last month, Assistant Police Director General Sopon Waratchanon said Monday.

6.   Also Monday, Spanish police arrested six suspected separatists in the northern Basque towns of Carranza y Sopelana.

7.   Clashes erupted last April, June and July when suspected separatists resisted arrest by police, Zhou, the Yili party secretary, said.

8.   Despite the cease-fire, which still allows Indian security forces to carry out search and seizure operations, there has been no letup in killings by suspected separatists.

9.   Ethnic Albanian militants in Kosovo have intensified their fight to secede from Serbia since Serbs launched a bloody crackdown on suspected separatists in February.

10.   Forty thousand ethnic Albanians poured into the capital of the southern Kosovo province on Monday to protest a Serb police crackdown against suspected separatists that left dozens dead.