31.   Domico said she believes the paramilitaries may have abducted her father to intimidate the Embera Katio into ending protests against paramilitary incursions.

32.   Earlier, King Norodom Sihanouk urged dialogue to end the protests, which he said were bringing shame to the nation.

33.   Earlier this month, he ordered hard-line clerics to end their protest over a newspaper cartoon lampooning a cleric.

34.   Earlier, King Norodom Sihanouk urged dialogue between rival political leaders in a bid to end the protests, which he said were bringing shame to the nation.

35.   East Timor resistance leader orders students to end protests.

36.   Farmers initially said they would not end their protest until the government scrapped a new law aimed at curbing tax evasion among merchants, self-employed professionals and farmers.

37.   Farmers around the country have so far rejected every government overture to end their protest.

38.   Former guerrilla fighters of the African National Congress blocked a highway Monday and later damaged cars when police ordered them to end a protest.

39.   French fisherman blocked northern ports for a second day Wednesday, but courts ordered them to end their protest that stranded hundreds of truckers and diverted car ferries.

40.   Government negotiators on Monday summoned air traffic controllers for a meeting intended to end protests that have caused havoc at Italian airports.