1.   The embassy spokesman said she had spent the weekend on a family visit to Britain, where she was born and raised.

2.   A USA embassy spokesman dismissed the claim as baseless.

3.   An embassy spokesman said that neither American is in serious condition.

4.   An embassy spokesman said Golez had been authorized by the embassy to make that statement.

5.   An embassy spokesman told the Associated Press it would try to contact Wu in Wuhan.

6.   A night watchman on the ground floor got out when officers shouted to him that smoke was coming out the second-floor windows, an embassy spokesman said.

7.   But last week, Yu Shuning, the embassy spokesman, dampened expectations.

8.   But Mark Wentworth, U.S. embassy spokesman in Islamabad, said the most recent U.S. State Department report on human rights continues highlight problems in Pakistan.

9.   But those detainees too are unwilling to talk, said an embassy spokesman.

10.   Early Thursday, US Ambassador James Collins was summoned to the Foreign Ministry, although an embassy spokesman said the meeting was planned in advance.