11.   In Hebron Thursday, Israeli military authorities extended for six months a shutdown order against four charitable and academic institutions allegedly linked to Islamic militant groups.

12.   New York-based Human Rights Watch expressed concern earlier this month that Uzbek authorities had extended their crackdown on dissident Muslims to women.

13.   Swedish authorities have extended his term of detention until early November.

14.   The electoral authorities twice extended closing the polls for a total of three hours.

15.   The land is now privately owned, and the owner had allegedly refused to allow the authorities to extend the facilities to their homes.

16.   The residents claimed they had been denied these amenities by a landowner who refused to allow the authorities to extend the facilities to their houses.

17.   Without saying outright that authorities were extending the deadline, President Boris Trajkovski issued a statement saying the deadline pressure on the rebels had accomplished positive results.

18.   Formally, that authority extends only to matters of Roman Catholic faith and spiritual doctrine.

19.   German authorities extended their investigation into the promotion of deadly illicit slimming pills Tuesday as the number of suspect deaths in the mounting scandal reached at least six.

20.   Ghanaian authorities have extended until next week a curfew imposed in the northeast of the country after an outbreak of ethnic fighting, officials said.