31.   Later, Hoenlein told a reporter that Powell urged said Palestinian media and officials should stop calling for violence.

32.   Litvinenko was among those who conducted that probe, Russian media said.

33.   Mourning services for Araki were also held among Shiites in Pakistan, India, Lebanon and other Muslim countries, the Iranian media said.

34.   Netanyahu was also meeting Sunday night with U.S. ambassador Martin Indyk to discuss the meeting, Israeli media said.

35.   North Korea received thousands of tons of frozen beef from Germany on Monday as humanitarian aid for the impoverished communist state, official media said.

36.   Observers have recently voiced concerns about Romanian press freedom, saying media over places disproportionate focus on Prime Minister Adrian Nastase.

37.   President Slobodan Milosevic will invite a rival ethnic Albanian leader for talks on the troubled Kosovo province this month, independent media said Wednesday.

38.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israeli security forces to increase intelligence gathering in the autonomous Palestinian areas, Israeli media said Monday.

39.   President Slobodan Milosevic will invite the rival ethnic Albanian leader for talks on troubled Kosovo province this month, independent media said Wednesday.

40.   Speaking generally, Powell said all media deals force the government to look at concentration and diversity.