31.   Air Force jets bombed Tamil rebel positions Wednesday, and the navy sank a rebel boat after a gun battle off the eastern coast.

32.   Another person was swept away by waves as he was fishing on the eastern Hualien coast, and was classified as missing.

33.   Eastern coast consists of thousands of islands and the northern border reaches above the Arctic Circle.

34.   Fighting between Tamil rebels and government troops continued Wednesday and the navy sank a rebel boat after a gun battle off the eastern coast, the military said.

35.   Floods caused by torrential rains along the eastern Black Sea coast killed at least seven people and collapsed scores of houses, the semi-official Anatolia news agency said Sunday.

36.   Floods caused by torrential rains along the eastern Black Sea coast killed seven people and collapsed scores of houses, the semi-official Anatolia news agency said Sunday.

37.   Flooding also remained severe from Guizhou in the southwest to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces along the eastern coast.

38.   Heavy rain also led to similar disasters in towns on the eastern Black Sea coast since Friday, killing four people.

39.   Hospital officials at the eastern coast port of Tonghae said the two sailors were in stable condition.

40.   Hit the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean, the Bahamas and then much of the eastern coast of the United States.