11.   Palestinian suicide bombings have prompted the Israeli military to seize West Bank towns and lock Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his residence in Ramallah.

12.   Rebels say they seized three towns near Eritrea border.

13.   But the Zapatista National Liberation Army and opposition political parties repeatedly seized towns and threatened either new violence or greater protests against alleged electoral fraud there.

14.   He and his men seized the town a week ago.

15.   In Goma, four weeks after the rebels seized the town of several hundred thousand at the north end of Lake Kivu, a sense of optimism is growing.

16.   Israeli troops seized the town and took over most of the complex.

17.   It was not clear whether they had taken part in the battle to seize the town or had been bused in afterward.

18.   Khudoberdyev seized the town last month and then marched on the capital.

19.   Meanwhile, insurgents were reported to have seized another town on the other side of Grozny.

20.   One seized a town on the western border with Uzbekistan, and another took the southern town of Kurgan Tyube.