1.   Rebel troops end siege of Manila area.

2.   Relatives of Keith Pringle allege police refused their pleas to be allowed to speak to him in a bid to end the siege peacefully.

3.   Federal agents bathed the cult compound with bright lights and played tapes of previous negotiations over loudhailers early yesterday in efforts to end the siege.

4.   Arafat also has been widely criticized for approving deals that ended the sieges of his Ramallah compound and the Church of the Nativity.

5.   As apparent reward, a start on ending the siege is to be made next week.

6.   Beyond the civil trial, the spent casings could raise new questions about the credibility of the FBI and the steps it took to end the siege.

7.   A deal to end the siege, which would have sent some Palestinians militants to Italy, stalled on Tuesday after Italy said no one had sought its consent.

8.   Bush then began pressuring Sharon to accept his compromise proposal to end the siege here.

9.   But the Clinton administration insisted that the unusual agreement with Fidel Castro ended a siege that had threatened to turn bloody.

10.   Chirac has now staked considerable political capital on ending the siege of Sarajevo.