41.   And outside the French finance ministry building where the conference was taking place another more personal protest was taking place.

42.   At least four helicopters circled the area around the local interior ministry building, which was seized by hundreds of well-armed Chechen fighters overnight.

43.   Eight militants chained themselves together outside the ministry building, while others sprayed graffiti slogans.

44.   The students allowed women to leave the ministry building but were holding all of the men inside.

45.   The windows of the ministry building were shattered and the walls were covered in cracks.

46.   Those blasts hit a justice ministry building and buildings near secular universities, amid warnings by fundamentalists that students who turned up for the new term would be targets.

47.   Three bombs also exploded on the main road between the defence ministry building and the Presidential Palace but local security guards reported no casualties.

48.   Three wire-guided missiles were fired into central Sarajevo Thursday, two hitting the interior ministry building.

49.   Two days of talks in Rome aimed at reaffirming the Dayton peace accords ended at the foreign ministry building Sunday.

50.   Witnesses reached by telephone in El Khobar said the explosion destroyed an eight-story Saudi defense ministry building housing Americans and other foreigners.