41.   Election officials delayed preliminary results a day while checking reports of irregularities of results faxed to the election tribunal.

42.   Election officials delayed releasing preliminary results for a day to check reports of irregularities in results faxed to the election tribunal.

43.   He said civil defense officials are checking tsunami reports.

44.   Health officials were checking those reports, Stroot said.

45.   He said monitors were trying to check a report that a mortar shell had hit a house in the village of Sahani, killing two people.

46.   However, the Israeli military checked the report, and said that no such clash took place.

47.   However, the Israeli military checked the report, and said that no such confrontation took place.

48.   In another related development, Information Minister Harmoko said he will check reports that Portugal was planning to broadcast television program to East Timor via satellite starting in October.

49.   In Cairo, a spokesman for the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights said it was checking the report.

50.   In Israel, an army spokesman said authorities were checking the report.