11.   Russian aircraft on Wednesday raided southwestern Chechen villages, killing and wounding civilians, while rebel fighters tried to break into the capital Grozny, the warring sides reported.

12.   Skirmishes continued between Russian and Chechen forces in the southwestern villages of Goiskoye, Orekhovo and Stary Achkhoi, Russian news reports said.

13.   The Japanese public shared his anger, particularly in this remote southwestern fishing village, home to students still missing from the disaster.

14.   The same words are repeated in Buhonga and Rushojwa, two other southwestern villages where mass graves were found.

15.   The women said they saw Russian planes bomb the southwestern villages of Shalazhi, Orekhovo and Goiskoye.

16.   Tikhomirov also said Russian guns were pounding the southwestern villages of Orekhovo and Stary Achkhoi on Wednesday.

17.   Two vans of police were keeping guard outside his converted-windmill home in this southwestern French village.

18.   Animal lover Brigitte Bardot has protested a plan to massacre pigeons infesting this southwestern French village and is urging the birds be given contraceptive seeds instead.

19.   Until the offensive, Chechen rebels and Russian forces only had full-scale clashes in a cluster of southwestern ruined villages.

20.   Pyros, captured in Slovenia this week, emerged from the truck that brought him to the mountains near this small southwestern village and headed straight into the hills.