61.   An AFP correspondent said his telephone had been cut and troops were blocking access to his home.

62.   An AFP correspondent said insurance companies, banks, post offices and the airport were operating as normal on Thursday, as was water and electricity distribution.

63.   An AFP correspondent said that about a dozen vehicles were wrecked and a few passers-by were hit by stones thrown by the demonstrators.

64.   An AFP correspondent said that Russian warplanes were attacking several villages in southwest Chechnya in an attempt to flush out Chechen rebels in the entire region.

65.   An AFP correspondent said the expulsees on Monday threw stones and bottles at interior ministry buildings near the police post and attacked police who dispersed them with tear gas.

66.   An AFP correspondent said the region was clearly in the hands of separatists.

67.   An agency correspondent said Grozny appeared calm late Friday, with local television broadcasting its normal programs.

68.   An explosion ripped through a building used by US military officials in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Monday, leaving several American casualties, an AFP correspondent said.

69.   An ITAR-TASS correspondent said many residents of the Chechen capital were being killed by artillery shells, shrapnel and sniper fire while lining up at water sources.

70.   Another Mega correspondent said the rebels dynamited part of a bridge between Gjirokaster and Delvine to prevent tanks and other heavy army vehicles from coming in.