41.   Two warring Kurdish factions said they are respecting a US-brokered ceasefire that took effect early Thursday in northern Iraq.

42.   On Saturday this faction said it had no intention of joining.

43.   Radical Palestinian factions said Wednesday two of their guerrillas were killed in south Lebanon in a failed attempt to infiltrate northern Israel a day earlier.

44.   Reconciliation talks between Sudanese rebel groups scheduled to open in Nairobi on Monday, were called off after the two main factions said they would not attend.

45.   The Afghan Hezb-i-Islami faction said Tuesday its fighters had repulsed a military advance by armed religious students known as Talibans in Wardak province near Kabul.

46.   The first assault came from within the PDP, when a faction supporting outgoing Foreign Minister Prasong Soonsiri said it wanted only elected MPs in the cabinet posts.

47.   The factions said the station would be open without censorship to humanitarian organisations, both national and international, that want to announce their projects.

48.   The FLNC-Canal Historique faction said it carried out the attacks against public buildings in the southern French city of Nimes, which caused damage but no casualties.

49.   The Kerubino faction said the ICRC had not informed them of the arrival of the plane before it landed.

50.   The Iraqi Kurdish factions also said they were committed to ensuring the security of the border with Turkey, Davies said.