1.   Debate on the budget and the tax cuts was held up yesterday when opposition parties boycotted parliament to protest the arrests of two Finance Ministry officials for accepting bribes.

2.   Debate on the budget and the tax cuts was held up yesterday when opposition parties boycotted parliament to protest the scandal.

3.   Opposition parties boycotted the parliament yesterday to protest the scandal.

4.   An opposition ethnic Albanian party in Macedonia, the Democratic Prosperity Party, announced it was boycotting parliament beginning Monday.

5.   An opposition ethnic Albanian party in Macedonia, the Democratic Prosperity Party, began boycotting parliament Monday.

6.   But Berisha has continued boycotting parliament.

7.   But Macedonian lawmakers have failed for weeks to take up reforms promised under the peace deal, prompting ethnic Albanian deputies to boycott parliament sessions in protest.

8.   But it will boycott parliament.

9.   Dhaka, Bangladesh -- Opposition legislators who have been boycotting parliament for months to demand new elections hold a rally, during which they plan to resign en masse.

10.   Hasina held a news conference challenging the results, but did not say whether she would boycott parliament.