31.   The International Committee of the Red Cross plans to begin an emergency airlift of food aid into the battered capital, officials said.

32.   The UNHCR operates about a dozen different programs in the battered capital, Kabul.

33.   Tolstoy-Yurt, a town just over the ridge from the battered Chechen capital Grozny, is a stronghold of opposition to secessionist leader Dzhokhar Dudayev.

34.   Tolstoy-Yurt, a town just over the ridge from the battered Chechen capital Grozny, is a stronghold of opposition to secessionist Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev.

35.   West African peacekeepers and Sierra Leone rebel fighters waged a fierce one-hour gunbattle Sunday in Freetown, prompting fears of renewed fighting in the battered capital.

36.   All flights were suspended Thursday as the Taliban prepared for their final push into the battered capital which fell with hardly a fight just hours later.

37.   Analysts said they feared this was the beginning of a long battle to control the battered Somali capital, divided into enclaves ruled by rival warlords.

38.   The shooting shook the area around the Villa Hotel in the south of the battered Somali capital Monday morning, UN military spokesman Rich McDonald said.

39.   The statement did not refer by name to the Islamic Taliban militia who are besieging the battered Afghan capital.

40.   Power supply was restored to the battered Afghan capital of Kabul late Sunday for the first time since the Islamic Taliban militia swooped into the city last week.