111.   The men went on strike on Saturday after the transport ministry refused to sign an overall agreement giving dockers in all ports the same pay scale.

112.   The Kuwaiti defence ministry refused to comment on the report.

113.   The labor ministry has refused these demands, said Ahmed Marai, a secretary general of the electricity workers union.

114.   The ministry refused to confirm the warhead on the fourth, which landed Wednesday in a targeted splashdown zone in international waters off the Taiwanese port of Kaohsiung.

115.   The ministry refused to say whether the wheat had been accidentally contaminated or whether it had been fed to the chickens on purpose.

116.   The ministry refused to say whether wheat had been accidentally contaminated or whether it had been fed to the chickens on purpose.

117.   The Portuguese foreign ministry refused to confirm or deny that a meeting is planned.