1.   A Congolese rebel commander said Thursday government troops loyal to President Laurent Kabila had retaken three towns in northwestern Congo after a week of aerial bombing.

2.   A military effort to retake the town would be useless, EU ministers agreed.

3.   Abdic and his Bosnian and Croatian Serb allies launched fierce counterattacks in November and a month later they retook the town.

4.   But he said most government troops had retreated to villages east of Kunduz and were trying to retake the town.

5.   Government retakes remote town after costly rebel siege.

6.   Government troops retook the town, but clashes continued in the area, the daily Al-Anba newspaper reported.

7.   However, Israeli TV reports said the army had a contingency plan to retake Palestinian towns should the violence escalate.

8.   However, Israeli TV reports said the army had a contingency plan under which it was prepared to retake Palestinian towns should the violence escalate.

9.   In recent months, infighting between rebel groups has allowed the Islamic government in Khartoum to retake towns in the south.

10.   It was unclear when they had retaken the frontier town, Kabo.