1.   Relations between them have long lurched from provocation to crisis and back again, and brought the region close to war.

2.   Simple white wine from the Veneto, a region close to Venice.

3.   Dinkas are vulnerable because they predominate in northern Bahr el Ghazal, a region close to the front between north and south.

4.   Ethnic Albanian sources also reported fighting in the Decani region close to the Albanian border, with Serb forces shelling eight villages.

5.   The region close to the capital has not previously been involved in clashes that started in February.

6.   The silo was blown up at a military range in the southern Mykolaiv region close to Pervomaisk, according to the Interfax news agency.

7.   Turkish troops were aided by the Iraqi Kurdish opposition group, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which has control over the region close to the Turkish border.

8.   Turkish troops have been aided by the Iraqi Kurdish opposition group, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which has control over the region close to the Turkish border.

9.   The PUK said Friday it had consolidated its control of Marga after expelling KDP fighters from the region close to the border with Iran.

10.   Watsa is at the centre of a very rich gold-bearing region close to the Sudanese and Ugandan borders.