31.   Sudan this week denied SPLA reports that rebels were advancing on Juba, for years a key but elusive goal of the guerrilla army.

32.   Sudanese rebels advanced Saturday toward a hydroelectric dam in their long-running campaign to topple the government.

33.   The Defense Ministry said that the rebels were advancing and had surrounded four nearby villages.

34.   The rebels are advancing fast.

35.   The rebels were advancing.

36.   The rebels have been advancing toward Lubumbashi in recent days.

37.   The rebels were advancing on the Wenga region in an attempt to capture the strategic town of Mbandaka, the administrative center of Equateur province, Longo said.

38.   The Taliban rebels have been advancing steadily since their stunning victory two weeks ago in the eastern city of Jalalabad.

39.   The ultimatum came at the end of a three-day deadline rebel leader Laurent Kabila gave Mobutu to step down or watch rebels advance on Kinshasa.

40.   U.N. envoy Mahmood Mestiri, who tried and failed to broker a temporary cease-fire, warned of massive bloodshed if Taliban rebels advance on Kabul.