51.   Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met late Thursday to discuss wanted militants in the autonomous territories.

52.   Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were to meet to discuss wanted militants in the autonomous territories, General Ofir said.

53.   Khartoum denied any involvement in the assassination bid and said it has found no trace of the three wanted militants on its territory.

54.   Meanwhile, Israeli troops conducted house-to-house searches in Jenin itself to track down wanted Islamic militants, Palestinian security sources said.

55.   Military sources in Jerusalem said the driver was a wanted militant.

56.   Pakistan police early Thursday shot dead a wanted militant allegedly involved in a massacre of Christians, police said.

57.   Police said gunmen killed the three alleged terrorists when they were taken to the Nazimabad district of the city to point out the hideouts of other wanted militants.

58.   Security services killed four wanted Islamic militants in a shootout as they tried to arrest them Saturday in the troubled province of Minya in southern Egypt, police said.

59.   Soldiers using loudspeakers issued a one-hour ultimatum to the wanted militants inside to surrender, witnesses said.

60.   Soldiers searched homes for wanted Palestinian militants and weapon caches.