21.   Former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda is a stateless person who will be deported as soon as the home affairs ministry completes some paperwork, local newspapers reported Tuesday.

22.   Georgian security forces are continuing their crackdown on the nationalist opposition group Mkhedrioni and arresting its members, the internal affairs ministry said on Thursday.

23.   He lived in Kuwait for nine years before moving to the UAE, where he became an expert in Islamic studies at the Islamic affairs ministry.

24.   He takes over the economy portfolio from Shimon Shetreet, who keeps the religious affairs ministry.

25.   In a move to broker peace between the warring parties, Mandela this week gave the powerful home affairs ministry to Buthelezi.

26.   Influential Georgian warlord Dzhaba Iosseliani was arrested overnight, a spokeswoman the internal affairs ministry in Tbilisi said Wednesday.

27.   A meeting due to be held on Monday between the charity groups and the social affairs ministry was abruptly cancelled with no explanation.

28.   A spokesman for the internal affairs ministry said that they were released after signing forms pledging not to engage in further unsanctioned demonstrations.

29.   Arrests of Georgians affiliated with the paramilitary opposition group Mkhedrioni continued at the weekend, a spokesman for the internal affairs ministry said on Sunday.

30.   Austria will sign in at the next meeting of the Schengen executive committee in Brussels, the Belgian European affairs ministry added.