31.   Despite ongoing disputes with NATO on how many weapons the rebels hold, the government reacted positively.

32.   For the third time in recent weeks, federal agents on Tuesday removed hundreds of lobster traps set by an Indian group in an ongoing dispute over fishing rights.

33.   Friends of the dead man said the shooting was sparked by an ongoing dispute, police said.

34.   German pharmaceuticals company Schering said on Thursday it has reached an agreement with U.S. Biogen over an ongoing patent dispute.

35.   Goods were moving smoothly from docks around Australia but an ongoing dispute kept ships loaded at Newcastle and Port Adelaide, the Maritime Union of Australia said Saturday.

36.   Gunmen ambushed a pickup truck, killing three people and wounding three more in an ongoing dispute between two subclans, witnesses said Tuesday.

37.   He had been questioned about the ongoing dispute between Russian Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov and security chief Alexander Lebed.

38.   He pledged to fight widespread corruption, resolve an ongoing dispute with Zapatista rebels in southern Chiapas state, and build a strong, healthy economy.

39.   If related to the ongoing dispute, that death would be the first fatality in the latest wave of violence.

40.   In the ongoing dispute over the recent fighting in the Jenin refugee camp, Annan rejected the Israeli demand to hold up the arrival the fact-finding mission.