21.   An elite unit on a mission between two villages near the city of Nablus got into a firefight with Palestinian gunmen.

22.   An ethnic Albanian village near the border, Seciste, remained deserted, some of its houses scarred by fire.

23.   An official with an international agency said six young men had left one village near Batken.

24.   And it has agreed to turn over to the Palestinian Authority three Arab villages near Jerusalem.

25.   And the next day, hundreds of flood victims were airlifted out of Supai, a village near the Grand Canyon.

26.   Andrew Tumwesigye of Kyanshama, a village near the park, displayes a tree damaged by an elephant.

27.   Anthony Quinn frames his interesting and readable biography in a bicycle ride through the villages near his home in Italy.

28.   At least one other had been decapitated as the volunteers retreated south with the Taliban from this village near the strategic Bagram air base.

29.   At the outset of the Russian campaign, a warplane dropped cluster bombs on a Georgian village near the border with Dagestan.

30.   Barak had planned to hand over three small Arab villages near Jerusalem Sunday to ease growing Palestinian frustration.