21.   Zinni has no plans to leave the region, a U.S. embassy spokesman said Wednesday night.

22.   Pakistani Foreign Secretary Shamshad Ahmad left Beijing Tuesday morning to return home, said embassy spokesman Rafique Dahar.

23.   Paul Winder and Tom Hartdyke were freed Tuesday night after negotiations involving the embassy and the International Committee of the Red Cross, embassy spokesman Johnny Welsh said.

24.   Police in Moscow threw the passport of Damian Stepien in a garbage can on Monday, damaging it, said embassy spokesman Jacek Niedzielski.

25.   Pleuger was to leave Beijing on Tuesday, said the embassy spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity.

26.   A British dancer, Mark Bolden, had surgery to remove shrapnel from his abdomen, a British embassy spokesman said.

27.   A club for American expatriates in Singapore was evacuated and the U.S. Embassy was searched on Monday after a bomb threat, an embassy spokesman said.

28.   A club for American expatriates in Singapore was evacuated and the U.S. Embassy was searched on Monday after an anonymous bomb threat, an embassy spokesman said.

29.   A building inside the U.S. Embassy compound in Cairo was evacuated Tuesday following the discovery of a powdery substance in two bathrooms, an embassy spokesman said.

30.   A Chinese embassy spokesman in Manila has said these were just shelters for Chinese fishermen.