1.   Police increase Kinshasa presence ahead of threatened protests.

2.   Despite the threatened protests by the umbrella labor group, Daewoo said it will reopen its main plant on Wednesday as scheduled.

3.   In Canada, truckers met Thursday with the provincial government of Ontario to try to avert a threatened protest over high fuel prices.

4.   Moldovan Premier Ion Ciubuc last week promised to subsidize some basic foods in an unsuccessful attempt to avert the threatened protest.

5.   Police expected the same mass protests that marred celebrations last year, but still the suicide attempt only hours before threatened protests surprised them.

6.   Security forces reportedly have picked up dozens of activists, and the government is said to be determined to stop threatened protests there on Sunday.

7.   Soldiers set up barricades around the university Tuesday and maintained a heavy presence across the capital to block threatened protests by students.

8.   Israeli Defence Minister Yitzhak Mordechai appealed to Jewish settlers in the Palestinian territories to stay calm and not to go ahead with threatened protests against a Hebron accord.

9.   Organisers expressed relief Sunday that the final ended without the threatened protest suicides.

10.   Organisers of the Miss World contest expressed relief Sunday after the pageant ended without threatened protest suicides, after a victory for Irene Skliva of Greece.