1.   After roundtable talks on labor market reforms collapsed Tuesday, union leaders accused the government of seeking confrontation instead of the consensus they earlier sought.

2.   Clinton campaigned on behalf of sampling in his weekend radio address and at a Houston community roundtable talk this week.

3.   Pictures include roundtable talks, bilateral meetings and arrivals.

4.   A statement issued after roundtable talks, initiated by Berisha, offered a way out of the rebellion gripping southern Albania.

5.   But the speaker of the lower house, Gennady Seleznyov, a Communist, said broader roundtable talks were needed.

6.   Earlier, sources in Bonn had said the roundtable talks were being postponed in favor of separate negotiating sessions with industry, unions and environmental groups.

7.   Schroeder warned employers against endangering the roundtable talks, in an interview for Thursday editions of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

8.   According to Newsnight, the body -- whose report is not binding -- will not insist on the handing over of arms as a precondition to entering roundtable talks.

9.   Assad declined to join the satellite roundtable talks.

10.   This conflicts with British insistence that some arms must be turned in before roundtable talks begin.