21.   Heavy rain hampered voting in northeastern provinces and occasional showers fell in the metropolitan Buenos Aires area, home to one-third of the population.

22.   He said the medicine is not the same as the one found by researchers in a northeastern province.

23.   High waters also raged on the Songhua river in northeastern Heilongjiang province, threatening Harbin city, the provincial capital and major center of heavy industry and grain production.

24.   Huang Shidong and Zhang Shifeng were arrested on a train in northeastern Heilongjiang province Tuesday, the TVBS cable network reported.

25.   In addition to the ransom, the kidnappers have also demanded that the government build more roads in their northeastern Dhamar province.

26.   In Honduras, five people drowned in surging rivers in the northeastern province Olancho after rains from a tropical depression in the Caribbean Sea lashed the Atlantic coast.

27.   In neighboring Cambodia, three northeastern provinces suffered heavy flooding and the capital, Phnom Penh, was under threat.

28.   In the northeastern Corrientes province, the scene of almost daily protests for well over a month, workers blocked roads leading to the neighboring city of Resistencia.

29.   In the northeastern Khorasan province, eight people were killed and four were injured when a car collided with a minibus on Friday, said IRNA monitored in Dubai.

30.   Iranian authorities seized more than two tons of drugs over the past few days in northeastern Khorasan province, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported Thursday.