11.   Eight truckloads of oil barrels and three shipping containers have been brought to the dump site.

12.   Girdled with life-size oil barrels, activists propped the cell outside the merchant marine ministry at the port city of Piraeus.

13.   Rescuers combing the deep waters of the Nandu River in Leizhou found five bodies amid the wreckage of the oil barrels, the Yangcheng Evening News reported Friday.

14.   Witnesses said the blaze started in the engine and then spread when a small oil barrel on the bus caught fire.

15.   Young men in Ain Helwe burnt tyres and set up oil barrels to block off main entrances to the camp near the southern port city of Sidon.

16.   Russia, which exports nearly three million oil barrels a day, said in mid-May it would not extend production cuts either.