41.   Then this afternoon, after the market closed, the group announced the punishment.

42.   To enlarge its presence even more, the Virgin Islands group announced Friday that it was expanding to other Caribbean communities.

43.   When the album was initially released, the group announced that it was going to forgo a tour.

44.   Yesterday the group announced Wang would stick around and take whatever punishment his father found fit.

45.   Other militant groups have not announced a halt to attacks.

46.   A day after two rival Iraqi Kurdish groups announced a far-reaching peace agreement, one of the sides Friday retreated from some of its pledges.

47.   A former chief of staff of the Iraqi army, Gen. Nizar al-Khazraji, has defected to Jordan, a leading opposition group announced on Wednesday.

48.   A former chief of staff of the Iraqi army, Gen. Nizar al-Khazraji, has defected to Jordan, a leading opposition group announced Wednesday.

49.   A Cuban athlete competing in Puerto Rico has left his team and plans to seek asylum in the United States, a Cuban exile group announced Saturday.

50.   A Greenpeace ship is headed to the Caribbean on a mission to block a freighter from carrying processed nuclear fuel through the region, the environmental group announced.