1.   NATO officials have asked the rebel guerrillas to refrain from starting military actions from Macedonia, fearing that it could destabilize the country, Western diplomats said.

2.   That would set up a confrontation with Chechen armed forces and rebel guerrillas that the Russian authorities have repeatedly said they want to avoid.

3.   The refugee agency in essence ceded the registration to the Kosovo Liberation Army, the rebel guerrillas who fought Serb forces in Kosovo.

4.   Rebel guerrillas, also withdrawing from Grozny after capturing most of the city in a swift offensive this month, fired off submachine gun salutes into the air.

5.   Authorities in North Ossetia later said seven men were carrying documents identifying them as Chechen rebel guerrillas.

6.   Calls to streamline the military and improve its capability have mounted since the army suffered a series of humiliating defeats at the hands of rebel guerrillas in Chechnya.

7.   Fighting between Burmese government troops and rebel guerrillas eased Tuesday, one day after the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat, rebel sources said.

8.   Government forces said Wednesday they shot dead five rebel guerrillas on the copper-rich island of Bougainville.

9.   Gunmen shot and killed a former rebel guerrilla who had abandoned the armed struggle for independence and become a politician, his colleagues said Sunday.

10.   In Colombo on Saturday night, assailants shot and killed a former rebel guerrilla, Karaiwa Kandasamy, who had abandoned the insurgency and become a politician.