111.   The agency quoted Taliban sources as saying anti-Taliban Pashtuns also fired on positions of the Islamic militia in the Kandahar area.

112.   The agency quoted the foreign ministry as saying that Bahrain approved the U.S. request for deploying one squadron in keeping with the defense cooperation agreement between the two countries.

113.   The agency quoted the mayor of Igualapa, Apolonio Alvarez Montes, as saying one person was killed in nearby Azoyu and three more in the town of Xochitlahuaca.

114.   The agency quoted the Moscow-backed government in Chechnya.

115.   The agency quoted Tourism Minister Vladimir Mitrovic as saying several NATO members expressed their readiness to compensate war damages .

116.   The agency quoted witnesses as saying the missile was seen coming from the direction of Saudi Arabia to the southwest before it struck.

117.   The CTK agency quoted chief of staff Jiri Sedivy as saying that the first NATO transport could cross Czech territory on Thursday.

118.   The dead included three women and three children, the agency quoted a police official as saying.

119.   The investment would be spread over the next two years, Bernama new agency quoted Esso Production Malaysia Inc. chief Philip Dingle as saying.

120.   The gunmen then opened fire indiscriminately on survivors, the agency quoted witnesses as saying.