61.   In a challenge to the government, an elite unit of Serbian police blocked a highway Saturday protesting recent arrests of those wanted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal.

62.   In a further blow to peace talks, opposition Sen. Heberto Castillo resigned Wednesday night from the congressional peace commission in Chiapas to protest the arrest of Yanez.

63.   In Moscow, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov called U.S. Ambassador James Collins to the ministry to formally protest the arrest.

64.   In the West Bank town of Nablus, meanwhile, Palestinian police prevented Hamas from holding a march to protest the arrests.

65.   In the West Bank town of Nablus, meanwhile, Palestinian police prevented Hamas from staging a march to protest the arrests.

66.   International human rights groups have protested the arrests.

67.   ITAR-Tass reported that the former premier had gone on a hunger strike to protest his arrest.

68.   Kurds in cities across Europe protested his arrest with marches, sit-ins, hunger strikes, self-immolations and a suicide bombing.

69.   Late Wednesday, hundreds of people had gathered outside government building to protest the arrest, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

70.   Local Serbs had protested the arrest.