1.   The UN Security Council issued a statement yesterday that criticized the latest interruption of weapons inspections.

2.   U.N. weapons inspection teams called off visits to Iraqi weapon sites today after U.S. experts were denied access in the third such incident in as many days.

3.   Eight British Tornado bombers were to arrive in Kuwait on Monday as part of an American and British buildup for a possible strike on Iraq over U.N. weapons inspections.

4.   In the past two weeks, newspaper editorials and magazine articles have attacked Annan personally and professionally, charging that he appeased Saddam and undermined U.N. weapons inspections.

5.   Iraq Friday dismissed U.N. attempts to end the crisis over weapons inspections and accused the United States of using the standoff to gather information for an attack.

6.   The rest pays reparations to Kuwaiti victims of the Gulf War and to finance U.N. weapons inspections in Iraq.

7.   The Russian leader has previously warned the United States not bomb Iraq during the periodic standoffs over United Nations weapons inspections in the Arab nation.

8.   The Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt a resolution that punishes Iraq for halting U.N. weapons inspections while giving Baghdad a way out of the impasse.

9.   The Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to punish Iraq for halting U.N. weapons inspections in a resolution that also left Baghdad a way out of the impasse.

10.   U.S., Japan call on Iraq to cooperate on weapons inspections.