11.   The violence began Thursday after Ariel Sharon, leader of the hard-line opposition Likud party, visited a Jerusalem site holy to Muslims and Jews.

12.   Tribal leaders loyal to King Hussein appeared set Wednesday to win parliamentary elections that were spurned by the main opposition Islamic party and a majority of voters.

13.   Yossi Sarid, leader of the opposition Meretz party and a former environment minister, said he believed Azam Azam was innocent.

14.   Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing opposition Likud party, has already indicated that he will not oppose the choice of Peres.

15.   The opposition Jatiya party and fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party could not be reached immediately for comment, but it was unlikely they would differ.

16.   The right-wing opposition Likud party is interfering in internal American affairs to undermine the Middle East peace process, an Israeli minister charged Thursday.

17.   Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin defended the Palestine Liberation Organization on Sunday accusing the right-wing opposition Likud party of telling lies about the organisation.

18.   Sudanese students held demonstrations in the main streets of Khartoum Monday to protest high prices and call for the fall of the government, the opposition Umma party said.

19.   The killing of Daniels, a member of the opposition Liberal party, comes one week after rebels kidnapped independent presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt in southern Colombia.