11.   In the extreme south of the country, security worsened.

12.   Sources familiar with the region say the group has its largest presence in the extreme south of the country near the Kenyan border.

13.   Tropical force winds could reach the Florida Keys and extreme south Florida by late Thursday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

14.   He heard the gunmen speak in Tausug, a dialect predominant in the extreme south, where the Abu Sayyaf has a strong presence.

15.   Also Thursday, Bosnian Serb forces were involved in the shelling of the Croatian town of Dubrovnik in the extreme south of Croatia, which killed three people.

16.   Bozidar Vucurevic, the mayor of Trebinje in the extreme south of Bosnia-Hercegovina, recently claimed an agreement existed between Pale, Zagreb and Belgrade.

17.   Fighters loyal to President Dzhokhar Dudayev only operate in four separate areas across the extreme south, a high-ranking Russian officer was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.

18.   There are also guerrilla groups operating in the extreme south and in the southwest, based around the devastated village of Bamut.

19.   Most of those who fled to Sabah come from the island of Basilan and the provinces of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi in the extreme south of the Philippines.

20.   The military also claims to have captured a bridge in the extreme south linking Sierra Leone to Liberia across the Mano river.