31.   The Iraqi blasts violently shook the glass windows of the Information Ministry building near the center of Baghdad where foreign reporters are based.

32.   The old women covered their heads with their hands as the blasts shook the ground.

33.   The midday blast shook the office building housing the Communist newspaper Il Manifesto.

34.   The thunderous blast shook downtown Jerusalem and sent flames leaping from a car that caught fire.

35.   The state-run Tanjug news agency said several blasts shook the town, but no casualties were immediately reported.

36.   The thunderous blast shook downtown Jerusalem and sent flames leaping into the air from a car that caught fire.

37.   Two powerful blasts shook the Kosovo capital of Pristina early Thursday after NATO planes flew extensively over the city, reported independent Beta news agency.

38.   Violence also erupted as two bomb blasts shook the suburbs of the capital Skopje overnight, injuring a woman, and three civilians were reportedly abducted by ethnic Albanians.

39.   While the blasts shook a nearby maternity hospital and a row of embassies the fire was limited to the federal Interior Ministry and its Serbian republic counterpart.

40.   A big blast shook the small town of Thenia, east of the Algerian capital, before dawn on Thursday, residents said by telephone.