21.   President Hosni Mubarak has ratified death sentences imposed on five Islamic militants for trying to kill Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi, an Egyptian newspaper reported Wednesday.

22.   Rights group Amnesty International appealed Saturday to Kuwait to commute death sentences imposed on three Bangladeshis who next week face a public hanging after being convicted of murder.

23.   Seventy-five British barristers Monday petitioned Pakistan to lift the death sentences imposed on two Christians -- including a teenaged boy -- convicted of blasphemy against Islam.

24.   The Canadian Government said Thursday it deplored the death sentences imposed in Nigeria on Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other human rights campaigners.