21.   Earlier Thursday, Kaunda said an alliance of opposition groups supported a court challenge his party filed last month in an attempt to have the proposed amendments struck down.

22.   Hoping to discredit the leading presidential contender, the ruling party filed a legal complaint Thursday, asking prosecutors to investigate him on corruption charges.

23.   Large crowds gathered in Kuruwita as parties filed nomination papers for local government elections that will test the popularity of the government of President Chandrika Kumaratunga.

24.   Mainly white opposition parties have filed lawsuits against the requirement, which could threaten to delay the balloting.

25.   On Monday, the party filed a lawsuit demanding the government halt the privatization program.

26.   Should the party not file complaints it would have to forego its rights.

27.   Since then, both parties have filed several lawsuits against each other both in Thailand and the United States.

28.   Stanislaw Michalkiewicz, one of the leaders of the rightist Unia Polityki Realnej, or Union for Real Policy, said the party filed for the trademark last year.

29.   The Labor and Meretz parties filed a new no-confidence motion to protest stalled peace talks and confrontations with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

30.   The main opposition Nepali Congress party filed a no-trust motion against Chand Monday.