31.   Nine Greenpeace activists were detained Tuesday after illegally blocking the entrance to the Norwegian Foreign Ministry in an anti-whaling protest.

32.   Police also detained an activist of the Muslim militant group Hamas, Adel Khzeik, but officials denied reports that Khzeik had prepared a suicide bombing in Israel.

33.   Police detained the activists for holding an unauthorized protest.

34.   Police in China on Saturday detained an activist who helped set up a branch of a banned opposition political party two days earlier, a human rights group said.

35.   Police refused to say where the activists were being detained.

36.   Police said none of the immigrants or supporters was hurt, but they detained six activists suspected of attacking or trying to attack officers.

37.   Police then detained the activist, Kazimierz Switon, and detonated the explosives.

38.   Several dozen activists have been detained in the past month in what has become an annual crackdown.

39.   Six activists were detained following the overnight protest near the power plant at Stade, police said.

40.   The activists were detained for questioning.