1.   Arab diplomats had speculated the reported expulsions were related to clashes between government troops and Muslim activists in Benghazi and Dirnah, both on the Mediterranean close to Egypt.

2.   Both the State Department and the Pentagon had no official comment on the reported expulsions.

3.   In Washington, both the State Department and the Pentagon had no official comment on the reported expulsions.

4.   Iranian authorities are expelling two German diplomats, apparently in retaliation for the reported expulsion of two Iranians from Bonn, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Sunday.

5.   Jomhur Islami said only that the Germans had been ordered out of Iran within two weeks in reprisal for the reported expulsion of the two Iranians.

6.   The Russian government has failed to give the United States any information about the reported expulsion of an American businessman, U.S. officials said Monday.

7.   Three captured U.S. soldiers faced charges Friday in Kosovo, where NATO continued its bombing campaign against Serb targets in hopes of halting reported mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians.

8.   The ministry refused to comment on the reported expulsion of Pakistani diplomats.

9.   The reported expulsions come amid a ceasefire that went into effect in Bosnia last Wednesday.