51.   HAMAS militants who kidnapped an Israeli soldier were tracked down through two video cassettes of their hostage which they had broadcast, military sources told Israeli radio Saturday.

52.   Hariri will travel to Brussels for the ceremony, with Economy Minister Bassel Fleihan signing the deal, government sources told AFP.

53.   He later admitted to raping the woman and a search of his home found the balaclava, knife and gloves he allegedly used, police sources told Anatolia.

54.   He was transferred to the capital where he remains under police detention, the sources told AFP.

55.   He will also visit the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq, oil sources told QNA.

56.   In the end, the authorities seem almost to be practising a policy of containment rather than conquest, a gangland source told AFP.

57.   India has reduced the number of troops massed on the border with Pakistan, a high-ranking Pakistani intelligence source told AFP on Friday.

58.   Iraqi forces withdrew overnight from the Kurdish city of Arbil in northern Iraq which they had occupied at the weekend, a United Nations source told AFP Monday.

59.   Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian who was strapped with explosives Monday at an Israeli checkpoint on the border with the Gaza Strip, military sources told AFP.

60.   A bomb exploded at dawn Tuesday in the centre of the Yemeni capital, blowing in the front of the civil aviation headquarters, police sources told AFP.