1.   Except for a prisoner swap last year, however, the negotiators have made almost no headway.

2.   Prisoner swaps have been notoriously difficult to negotiate whenever they have occurred during the Bosnian war.

3.   A Sarajevo-based journalist seized by Bosnian Serbs was being held for use in a prisoner swap, U.N. officials said Saturday.

4.   A spokesman for the Muslim-led government side on prisoner swaps said it expected to release all prisoners Saturday.

5.   An-Nahar quoted unnamed security sources as saying Schmidbauer was to return to Beirut soon to continue the negotiations for a prisoner swap involving Arad.

6.   Armed groups kidnap civilians and Russian security personnel from neighboring regions in order to demand prisoner swaps or ransom.

7.   But a last-minute dispute stalls completion of the prisoners swap.

8.   Critics of the prisoner swap say it will encourage the FARC to capture servicemen and use them as bargaining chips.

9.   Elsewhere, Bosnian Serbs told U.N. officials they were holding a Sarajevo-based journalist for use in a prisoner swap.

10.   Germany and unnamed foreign mediators were said to have taken part in negotiations aiming at securing a prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah.