41.   In Paris, the defence ministry issued a statement late Saturday identifying the three dead soldiers as Jean-Marie Herve, Raymond Aublanc and Sylvain Beilon.

42.   Aseh said the home ministry would issue a special card to Thai citizens frequently travelling to Malaysia which they could use instead of a passport.

43.   Burns also lambasted Bogota over a statement the Colombian foreign ministry issued on Tuesday that targeted Frechette.

44.   Confronted by the enormous concern stirred up by the impending trial, the health ministry has issued a string of reassuring statements.

45.   Earlier in the day, the ministry issued a deportation order for him.

46.   Earlier the French foreign ministry had issued a condemnation of the murder.

47.   Earlier Saturday the Algerian foreign ministry issued a protest to the Moroccan embassy in Algiers.

48.   The ministry has issued a notice to all banks, securities institutions and postal savings offices to redeem treasury bonds falling due this year.

49.   The Swiss foreign ministry issued a communique reminding Nigeria that it was a signatory to international laws covering civic and political rights.

50.   The Saudi health ministry has issued the bylaws of a mandatory scheme of Islamic medical insurance to be imposed on some seven million foreigners in the kingdom.