41.   President Emil Constantinescu has promised to back the demands of ethnic Hungarians for separate education in their language, ethnic Hungarian leaders said Wednesday.

42.   Police said their leader, an NPD member, had a banner with an anti-foreigner slogan hidden under his clothing.

43.   A huge explosion at the home of a dissident Khmer Rouge military commander has killed at least nine people and injured eight, a dissident leader said Thursday.

44.   A state with so many problems, says opposition leader Modi, needs an effective chief minister.

45.   A territorial dispute in western Yemen left nine dead and nine wounded Saturday, tribal leaders said.

46.   A statement issued after the meeting demanded the release of UN hostages and said Serbian leaders will be held accountable for their well-being.

47.   A small pro-Kurdish party was shut down for pushing for separatism, making it the third such to be closed for the same reason, its leaders said Tuesday.

48.   According to ITAR-Tass, Batalov said leaders of the Chechen national security service spent all day Wednesday talking with the kidnappers.

49.   Aliev said rebel leader Rovshan Dzhavadov, whom Aliev fired this week as his deputy interior minister, was fatally wounded in the fighting.

50.   Al-Jaradi tribesman killed two members of the al-Arabigah tribe in retaliation, and fighting continued into the night, leaders said.