21.   However, AFP correspondents reported that many voters ignored the threat.

22.   Hundreds of Bahrainis marched to the United Nations office here Monday evening to express support for the Palestinians, an AFP correspondent reported.

23.   However the rockets did cause some minor damage, an AFP correspondent there reported.

24.   Hundreds of Iraqi military vehicles headed north from the southern town of Basra on Tuesday, an AFP correspondent reported.

25.   However, some artillery shots were heard near the village, an AFP correspondent reported.

26.   In Grozny, artillery fire continued in the battered southern districts and in the centre of the town, AFP correspondents reported.

27.   Ingush President Ruslan Aushev went straight to Nesterovskaya after the killing, the AFP correspondent reported.

28.   Israeli soldiers shot three people on Friday as black-hooded Islamic fundamentalists led a protest against Palestinian self-rule by several thousand Gazans, a correspondent reported.

29.   Iraqis stopped work for five minutes on Wednesday in solidarity with the Palestinian intifada, or uprising, as an Arab summit opened in Beirut, AFP correspondents reported.

30.   Israel released a member of the pro-Syrian Amal movement on Wednesday nearly seven years after he was abducted from south Lebanon, correspondents here reported.