11.   The authorities withdrew the license for the European Broadcasting Union, used to transmit TV pictures abroad, on Monday.

12.   Therefore, the authorities should withdraw all gun licences for the purpose of hunting with provisions for review after some time, and freeze applications for licences.

13.   They vented their anger in a meeting with cooperative officials on Thursday in which they demanded that the authorities withdraw the operation permit of the new vans.

14.   Transport authorities withdrew all bus services from Belfast in response.

15.   Tunisian authorities have withdrawn the passport of a human rights activist after questioning him about a meeting he attended last week in Paris, human rights groups said Wednesday.

16.   U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on Friday called on Yugoslav authorities to withdraw forces from Kosovo and accept an international military presence to oversee the return of refugees.

17.   Iranian authorities on Tuesday withdrew extra security forces they had deployed at the French embassy in Tehran, embassy officials said.

18.   Authorities withdrew a police cordon around the airport where a few hundred supporters had gathered to welcome Sharif.

19.   Cambodian authorities have withdrawn a suspension order on two local newspapers but instead have filed civil defamation charges, the information ministry said Tuesday.

20.   The Zairean authorities later withdrew this demand.