1.   Armed Forces faction spokesman, Achmad Roestandi, said the draft decree stipulates conditions that a president must fulfill before exercising extra power.

2.   Faction spokesman Soewardi said the crisis had triggered massive unemployment that would burden the next government.

3.   A Liberian armed faction has executed four of its fighters after they were found guilty of looting and harassing civilians, a faction spokesman said Monday.

4.   Ousted Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani held talks Wednesday with a rival warlord over forging an anti-Taliban alliance, a faction spokesman said here.