21.   Italy also recently amended its legislation allowing its citizens to hold dual nationalities.

22.   Many of those voting around the country hold dual nationality and the election has aroused interest in their mother country among many young Algerians who grew up in France.

23.   Most of them hold Spanish nationality, but the charge sheet does not give their countries of origin.

24.   Residents holding dual nationality have until Sunday to renounce their foreign citizenship, under new laws brought out last year.

25.   Seven foreigners took an examination for municipal officials Sunday in Kawasaki, southwest of Tokyo, after the city scrapped the rule requiring public servants to hold Japanese nationality.