11.   Peacekeeping soldiers closed the port and ordered merchants who set up stalls there daily to go home, and cars were stopped and searched for weapons.

12.   All ports were closed from Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, to Mazatlan in Sinaloa state.

13.   All ports were closed from Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, to Acapulco.

14.   All ports were closed all the way from Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, to Acapulco.

15.   As a precaution, many nations banned all flights to and from India and closed their ports to Indian ships.

16.   Fishermen blocked at least six Atlantic coastal ports in Normandy and closed a port in Vendee, further south.

17.   Greenpeace asked Italy on Monday to close its ports to French military ships during an inquiry into a confrontation between a French destroyer and the environmental group.

18.   Heavy snow and rainstorms blustered through several Middle Eastern countries, closing ports, uprooting trees and disrupting power supplies across the region.

19.   International peacekeekpers closed the port and searched for the insurgents.

20.   Many in the crowd were angry that their small port had been closed by the military, stopping them from fishing.