1.   Mitterrand will be buried after a private funeral Thursday morning in Jarnac, the southwestern French village where he was born.

2.   Born in Tungipara, a southwestern Bangladeshi village.

3.   Clashes continued over the weekend in southwestern Chechen villages that Russian troops say are rebel bases.

4.   Dissident members of a Maoist rebel group shot dead five of their former comrades in a southwestern village Tuesday, police said.

5.   Ethnic Albanian sources said Serb forces on Monday attacked seven southwestern villages near the Albanian border with artillery and helicopter gunships.

6.   Fighting continued Wednesday in southwestern villages, and nightly rebel attacks against federal troops in Grozny continued, news agencies said.

7.   Inside Chechnya on Thursday, clashes were reported outside the southwestern villages of Achkhoi, Goiskoye and Orekhovo, Russian news agencies said.

8.   Medics arrived with a stretcher at his home in an ivy-covered converted windmill in this southwestern French village near Bordeaux.

9.   Moments after the decision, Einhorn emerged from his home in this southwestern village with his wife, Annika.

10.   On Friday, military officials claimed a victory at the rebel stronghold of Bamut, a southwestern village that has withstood Russian offensives throughout the war.