11.   Local correspondents say they are resigned to having their reports mutilated by the censors.

12.   Several versions of the exchange were reported by Israeli military and political correspondents before Netanyahu said the reports had been exaggerated.

13.   The correspondents said the Tajik government had agreed to send helicopters to Afghanistan to bring home followers of warlord Rezvon Sadirov.

14.   The correspondents said by telephone that the Tajik government had agreed to send helicopters to Afghanistan to bring home followers of warlord Rezvon Sadirov.

15.   The president of Kyrgyzstan sent press officers to interfere in the publication of a newspaper and they demanded removal of protest letter, a correspondent said Thursday.

16.   Four loud explosions were heard in the city, an AFP correspondent said.

17.   He later walked into two shops, an AFP correspondent said.

18.   Heavy shooting broke out early Saturday in Bangui, with the army apparently probing the defences of the rebels, correspondents there said.

19.   However, apart from the administration building, the rest of the town appeared to be in control of the pro-Russian police, an AFP correspondent said.

20.   His convoy of black Volga cars could be seen entering the Kremlin, an AFP correspondent said.