21.   In either case, the hurricane will cause heavy rains and possibly flash floods and mudslides, the hurricane center reported.

22.   It was the second attack in the eastern part of the city Monday, the center reported.

23.   Serbian police detained the director of the ethnic Albanian information center in strife-torn Kosovo province but released him unharmed after three hours, the center reported Thursday.

24.   Sixteen people, including two police officers, were missing in Hualien and the central county of Nantou, the center reported.

25.   The Albanian center also reported that fighting in the Decane region of western Kosovo had claimed two lives of two ethnic Albanians in the past two days.

26.   The center also reported that a hurricane warning had been rapidly extended northwestward from well below Acapulco to Puerto Vallarta.

27.   The center also reported that police found a weapons cache in the home of Nadjif Iljazi, a student leader in Prizren, who is on the run.

28.   The center also reported the eight soldiers were unharmed late Friday.

29.   The center reported additional fighting in the border area with Albania, near Djakovica, saying Serb forces there also were shelling Albanian villages.

30.   The Albanian center also reported that two ethnic Albanians had been killed in fighting in western Kosovo over the past two days.