51.   Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has lodged a protest with Beijing, saying police should not have entered a Japanese diplomatic office.

52.   Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi immediately lodged a protest with Beijing and ordered a high-ranking diplomat be dispatched to investigate, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda.

53.   Peru charged that the mines were planted by Ecuadorean troops in Peruvian territory and will file a protest with an international peace mission monitoring the disputed region.

54.   A day after Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinian laborers, Israeli army commanders met with Palestinian officers Wednesday and asked them to put down possible protests with force.

55.   A spokesman for Kolenergo, Viktor Krivtsov, said the power company filed a written protest with the fleet command.

56.   A Yugoslav government representative in Kosovo, Nebojsa Vujovic, also blamed ethnic Albanian rebels for the deaths and lodged a protest with the peacekeeping force.

57.   A Yugoslav government representative in Kosovo lodged a strong protest with the peacekeeping force in Kosovo.

58.   AFP has lodged a protest with Palestinian officials.

59.   After the debate, Communist lawmakers filed a protest with the parliamentary ethics committee, complaining that ultranationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky had acted rudely.

60.   Agence France-Press has lodged a protest with Palestinian officials.