31.   Berthiaume said talks were underway with the Sudanese authorities aimed at securing a reversal of their decision to impose the ban.

32.   Carlos the Jackal was first picked up for questioning last December after entering Sudan on a false Arab diplomatic passport, the Guardian reported Thursday, citing Sudanese authorities.

33.   Earlier this week, Sudanese military authorities said they had successfully repulsed an offensive by rebels backed up by Ugandan troops.

34.   Earlier this year, Sudanese authorities decided the UN investigator could return to the country, saying Biro had apologised for his criticism of Islam.

35.   Earlier this week Sudanese military authorities said they had successfully repulsed an offensive by the rebels backed up by Ugandan troops.

36.   The resolution also calls on Khartoum to desist from supporting terrorism, a charge strongly denied by Sudanese authorities.

37.   The Sudanese authorities said two of their policemen died in clashes in a disputed border region late Tuesday.

38.   They turned themselves in to the Sudanese authorities at Kassala earlier this month, a Sudanese security source, quoted by the official SUNA news agency, said.

39.   Khair also denied an Egyptian press report that Ethiopia had complained to the UN Security Council that the Sudanese authorities had tortured Ethiopian nationals in Sudan.

40.   Mubarak said in an interview published Thursday one of the militants may have been killed under torture by Sudanese authorities soon after the failed attack.