11.   Often, the laws themselves must be amended, delegates said.

12.   The alliance delegation then added Qanooni and Abdullah to the list, said a delegate who spoke to The Associated Press and Radio Free Europe on condition of anonymity.

13.   Talks at the U.N. climate conference were deadlocked Friday as the deadline approached for concluding a legal text defining action to curtail global warming, delegates said.

14.   Talks have gone well so far, say delegates.

15.   The two largest merger and acquisition deals in the region this year involved Australian and Singaporean companies, delegates said.

16.   Yet although many women object to the wars around them, some delegates said, they often help elect male leaders who fail to represent their views.

17.   India, Pakistan and Indonesia were among the strongest opponents of the passage on labour rights being included in the final declaration, other delegates said.

18.   A breakthrough has been achieved at the UN population conference with international recognition of the problem of women dying from unsafe abortions, a key delegate said.

19.   Before the handover Hong Kong is a British matter, after the handover it becomes a European Union matter, the delegates said.

20.   They said delegates, and particularly Yorubas, should withdraw from a constitutional conference now under way, saying it was not representative.