61.   A Palestinian hardline group on Thursday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of plunging the peace process into deadlock by shackling it to his demands.

62.   A hardline Islamic extremist group opposed to the peace process, Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing.

63.   A hardline Islamic fundamentalist group claimed responsibility for a bomb attack against a pro-democracy demonstration, a report said Sunday.

64.   Algerian security forces killed a regional leader of a hardline Moslem fundamentalist group on Thursday, state-run television reported.

65.   Algeria is in the throes of a bloody civil war between the military-backed government and hardline Islamic groups.

66.   Arafat also welcomed reports that the jailed leader of the hardline HAMAS group has ask his followers to call off attacks ahead of the Israeli vote.

67.   Arafat and other leaders appeared wary of having the Palestinian Authority blamed for not stopping the attacks, which were claimed by HAMAS, the leading hardline Islamic group.

68.   Anti-Israeli attacks by hardline Palestinian groups were a reaction to Israeli policy, the paper said.

69.   Another missile was fired at a building owned by the hardline Islamic Hamas group, which also served as a school.

70.   Another hardline fundamentalist group, Islamic Jihad, had initially claimed responsibility for the double killing in a telephone call to AFP.