1.   Troops have now sealed the valley, refusing requests by foreigners to inspect the site.

2.   Those assertions were impossible to verify since Rwandan troops sealed the border this morning and would not let journalists cross.

3.   Troops sealed off a section of Tel Aviv for hours Thursday on a tip that a bomber was about to strike but turned up nothing.

4.   Peacekeeping troops sealed off the docks and kept a wary eye on a crowd of East Timorese who have been jeering and taunting the departing troops in recent days.

5.   After the clash, Russian troops sealed off Shali and threatened to attack.

6.   All roads leading to the area were sealed by troops, and authorities were demanding that the man be released.

7.   Although Russian Interior Ministry troops sealed off the village, he and a colleague were able to get inside by secret means.

8.   An Israeli government spokesman, Arnon Perlman, said troops sealed Tulkarem and Qalqilya because of warnings that militants there were preparing to launch suicide attacks in Israel.

9.   Dutch, American, British and United Arab Emirates troops sealed off the airfield as those on board the plane were taken to an adjacent refugee camp.

10.   Early Tuesday, troops sealed the two-room Shaghnoubi house in the West Bank village of Burka.