31.   The ministry would not confirm the report.

32.   The ministry would not confirm the reports.

33.   The Spanish foreign ministry confirmed that two Spaniards were among the dead, believed to be the first foreign tourists killed in the conflict in Northern Ireland.

34.   The Thai foreign ministry confirmed the visas had been denied.

35.   The suspension was ordered after the ministry confirmed that excessive levels of radiation had been measured seeping from nuclear waste shipments arriving at processing plants in France and England.

36.   The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corp. said the defense ministry confirmed the soldiers were disarmed and taken prisoner Monday after their troop carrier airplane landed near the eastern town of Kabalo.

37.   France has refused to issue visas to relatives and close associates of the late Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, the foreign ministry confirmed Wednesday.

38.   However, he denied reports the ministry had confirmed in a statement Monday that two Chinese ships were stopping the Vietnamese drilling activities.

39.   However, the defence ministry would not confirm this officially.

40.   In a separate statement, the finance ministry confirmed that Madelin had resigned, without elaborating.