31.   Three captured U.S. soldiers faced charges Friday in Kosovo, where NATO continued its bombing campaign against Serb targets in hopes of halting reported mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians.

32.   Under a peace deal, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic agreed Thursday to accept allied troops in Kosovo, withdraw his forces and reverse mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians.

33.   Under Boban, Croats proclaimed their self-styled mini-state and were accused of mass expulsions of Muslims, their detention in camps and killings.

34.   While Britain admitted nothing, it indicated that whatever happened the mass expulsion of diplomats was an overreaction.

35.   Five hundred years after the fact, Portugal expressed shame on Thursday for the mass expulsion of Jews during the reign of King Manuel I.

36.   Banja Luka became notorious at the beginning of the war for the mass expulsion of non-Serbs from their homes by Bosnian Serb soldiers and extremists.

37.   But reports from the border say that mass expulsions of Palestinians have been halted since Thursday.

38.   The reprisals could take the form of a freeze on Albanian assets and a mass expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Albanian illegal immigrants, the source said.

39.   Israeli authorities last year already began preparations for the mass expulsion of illegal immigrants, including the opening of special detention camps.

40.   Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has suspended the mass expulsion of Palestinians, travellers crossing the border into Egypt said Thursday.