1.   A blanket of tear gas covered the fashionable Corso Torino, a broad shaded boulevard skirting the center of this Mediterranean port.

2.   But Duncan and Scott argue that when bubonic plague occurred in medieval Europe, it was generally confined to Mediterranean port cities and southern France.

3.   In Marseilles, demonstrators had been refused admittance to the main office of the regional government headquarters in the Mediterranean port.

4.   It moved quickly to other Mediterranean ports and the rest of Europe, spread by fleas from the black rat and people with pneumonic plague.

5.   Last September in Latakiya, the Mediterranean port that is the unofficial capital of the Alawites, the army rounded up followers of Rifaat Assad.

6.   The latest Palestinian attack came at noon Sunday in the Mediterranean port city of Haifa.

7.   Yukos recently bought part of a Slovakian pipeline with an eye on reaching a Mediterranean port that could be used to supply the United States.

8.   Others were arrested in raids in the northern city of Reims and the southern Mediterranean port city of Marseille.

9.   Police and judicial sources in the Mediterranean port city of Nice on Tuesday denied a report that a failed bombing there was linked to the Paris subway attack.

10.   A police officer in this Mediterranean port city has been arrested in a series of bombings by Basque separatists, officials said Wednesday.