31.   Amid the growing hostilities, Macedonian authorities closed the border with Kosovo and hundreds of residents fled Tetovo and surrounding villages, several of them now in rebel hands.

32.   An Indian village is surrounded by flames, says one group.

33.   Armed group surrounds Algerian village.

34.   Earlier, police and army soldiers surrounded the village in the border district of Poonch after receiving information that militants were hiding there.

35.   Earlier this month, helicopters dropped explosives into the Kuban River to break up ice jams that caused flooding in surrounding villages.

36.   Flames spread to several buildings, sending smoke billowing over the hills surrounding the village.

37.   He said armored vehicles and jeeps surrounded the village, barring residents from leaving and entering.

38.   He said a police team surrounded the village and arrested Singh early Tuesday.

39.   Herders regularly find unexploded mortars and other artillery on land surrounding the village.

40.   Hours after Bush spoke to the troops, ethnic Albanian rebels attacked an army barracks and surrounded four villages in Macedonia.