21.   In Gaza, Jabali said the police were taking steps to collect unlicensed weapons, but would not provide any details.

22.   Jaabari said the arrests were part of a campaign to round up unlicensed weapons.

23.   Officers primarily look for unlicensed weapons, drugs and stolen goods.

24.   Tazhutdin Bizhamov, justice minister of Dagestan, has been formally charged with carrying an unlicensed weapon, the Interior Ministry press service said.

25.   The charges ranged from murder, grand theft and looting to arson, destruction of property and ownership of an unlicensed weapon, the report said.

26.   The court sentenced Ali Omar Deeb Saab to nine months in jail for smuggling cigarettes into Lebanon from Israel and for carrying an unlicensed weapon.

27.   The government is promising not to prosecute anyone who turns in an unlicensed weapon by July, James said.

28.   The Interior Ministry on Friday ordered the banning of all unlicensed weapons in an effort to curb rising violence.

29.   The searchers seized unlicensed weapons and looked through files, the official said.

30.   The rally was relatively peaceful, though a scuffle broke out when police tried to confiscate an unlicensed weapon.