31.   But no protests were reported by midday, several hours before services were to begin at local mosques.

32.   Hundreds of relatives and townspeople converged on local mosques to pray over coffins bearing the dead.

33.   In his absence, they stayed in their own areas and attended local mosques that dot the belt of modest Shiite villages around Manama, villagers said.

34.   In his absence, they stayed home and attended local mosques, villagers said.

35.   In Auckland a mosque has been vandalized, and in Hamilton graffiti and a Nazi swastika were sprayed on walls and footpaths outside a local mosque.

36.   In return, Bulgaria has promised to finance the maintenance of some local mosques.

37.   In Spin Boldak, Alauddin Ayatullah, a young, bearded Taliban preacher at the local mosque, said loyalists were being given arms.

38.   Iranian diplomats are in Herat preparing to reopen their consulate, torched by a mob of several hundred in May after the mysterious bombing of a local mosque.

39.   Last year, Serb nationalists in Trebinje prevented a ceremony during which the cornerstone for a reconstruction of the local mosque was to have been laid.

40.   Last year, Serb nationalists in Trebinje prevented a ceremony during which the cornerstone was to have been laid for the reconstruction of the local mosque.