81.   Nasser also said no new date had been fixed for another round of talks to end the siege.

82.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat accepted Sunday a US proposal to end the siege at his West Bank compound, senior Arafat advisor Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP.

83.   Palestinian negotiator Imad Natche told AFP Friday the Israelis indicated it was no longer useful to conduct the talks on ending the siege at a local level.

84.   Palestinian negotiator Imad Natche told AFP the Israelis indicated it was no longer useful to conduct the talks on ending the siege at a local level.

85.   Pope John Paul II was to send out French cardinal Roger Etchegaray in an attempt to end the siege, a Vatican source said.

86.   Police ended the siege of his house after he slipped through their net.

87.   Sarajevans welcomed the reports of a possible offensive aimed at ending the siege but were too accustomed to disappointment to allow their hopes to rise.

88.   Southern leaders appealed Thursday to the international community to use force to ensure a ceasefire holds in the Yemen civil war and end the siege of Aden.

89.   The EU discussions have revolved around the legal status of the men, whose exile was part of a peace deal that ended the siege.

90.   The decision will bring relief to EU leaders who risked seeing their diplomatic triumph in ending the siege spoilt by the reluctance of member states to host the men.