11.   He said there had been heavy fighting around Suva Reka and Prizren and that civilians were being forced out of the area.

12.   Karzai could not attend the talks in Germany because of the fighting around Kandahar, the southern Afghan city that is the spiritual home of the Taliban.

13.   Residents said that street fighting around the main city hospital, less than a mile from the presidential palace, was intense.

14.   Some of the refugees had been wounded in the fighting around Velika Kladusa while wandering around in mine fields, Kessler said.

15.   Tension also remained over the way to return what appear to be thousands of Macedonians who fled their houses in recent days because of the fighting around Tetovo.

16.   The cease-fire seemed to hold throughout most of the country Sunday, although there were reports of continued fighting around the northwestern town of Bihac.

17.   The fighting around Goma has dislodged another half-million refugees from camps along the Rwandan border.

18.   The recent fighting around Bihac began when the Muslims launched an offensive in the area.

19.   The total number of deaths in other fighting around Chechnya that day was not known, he said.

20.   U.N. military officials reported the heaviest fighting around Velika Kladusa in the north of the Bihac pocket.