41.   Malika Husseinova, who tried to return to Novogrozny on Tuesday to find her children, said she had been driven back by intense artillery fire.

42.   Malika Husseinova, who tried to return to Novogroznensky on Tuesday to find her children, said she had been driven back by intense artillery fire.

43.   Secessionist Serb forces and the Croatian army engaged in intense artillery exchanges in southern Croatia Friday, a UN spokesman told AFP.

44.   Serb and Bosnian government gunners have been trading shellfire in intense artillery duels for the past two days in Bihac, Bosnian Serb television reported Thursday.

45.   Russian forces unleashed intense artillery and bombing attacks Sunday across a wide front of Chechen towns and villages controlled by secessionist rebels, eye-witnesses and officials said.

46.   Russian warplanes late Wednesday bombarded separatist Chechen forces to the west and southwest of the capital Grozny, where intense artillery exchanges resumed, AFP correspondents observed.

47.   The area was the target of intense Russian artillery bombardments on Thursday.

48.   The Chechen-held sector came under intense artillery bombardment overnight Monday and the Chechen fighters said there had also been fierce fighting around Minutka Square.

49.   The Brcko corridor in northern Bosnia was reopened to traffic Thursday following an intense artillery barrage between Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat troops, the Tanjug news agency reported.

50.   The intense artillery and air assault came after Russian troop reinforcements inched into Grozny earlier Thursday to support forces hemmed in by the Chechen offensive.