51.   Continuous downpours since Saturday at the tail end of the annual monsoon season devastated farmlands, washed away bridges and blocked highways in hundreds of villages in northern India.

52.   Commuters languish because labor protests block highways.

53.   Coal miners block highway to prevent arrest of leader.

54.   Crews worked Monday to raise levees against rising streams in the eastern Dakotas and Minnesota, where flooding already had blocked highways and washed out rural roads.

55.   Continuous downpours since Saturday at the tail end of the annual monsoon season devastated farmlands, washed away bridges and blocked highways.

56.   Crimean Tatars also blocked two highways on the Black Sea peninsula, a nominally autonomous region of Ukraine that has its own parliament, the Interfax news agency reported.

57.   Despite an improvement in the weather in most parts of Greece, many main highways were still blocked due to heavy snowfall, floods and mudslides.

58.   Dozens of demonstrators demanding the release of Islamic militants threw stones at Palestinian police outside a West Bank lockup Saturday and blocked a highway for more than an hour.

59.   Despite an improvement in the weather in most parts of Greece, many highways were still blocked due to heavy snowfall, floods and mudslides.

60.   Drivers have not blocked highways, the transport ministry said, and no sanctions against the striking workers are planned.