11.   Serbs, who are largely Orthodox Christians, have been blamed for a string of attacks on Catholic churches in the Banja Luka region this month.

12.   The mediators visited the region this month with a sense of urgency.

13.   The Taliban have scored a string of triumphs in the region this month, pushing the opposition deeper into an isolated corner of northeast Afghanistan.

14.   There has been fighting in the region all month.

15.   This is the third massacre to take place on a road in the Mascara region this month.

16.   This was the second crash in the border region this month.

17.   U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is expected to visit the region this month.

18.   Yugoslavia sent long columns of tanks toward the region this month in an apparent warning to Croatia not to attack.

19.   Business activity picked up markedly in the Mid-Atlantic region this month, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank said Thursday.

20.   It was the third attack on a Civil Guard base in the region this month.