21.   Croatian Serbs are actively helping their brethren across the border in the northwestern Bosnian region of Bihac.

22.   Cotino said the arrested Colombian, identified as Alfonso Leon, was the link between Colombian drug cartels and Spanish drug gangs based in the northwestern region of Galicia.

23.   Earlier this week it claimed responsibility for the killings of three police officers in the tense northwestern region of Tetovo.

24.   Eastern Rite Catholics, whose supreme authority is the pope, live in the northwestern region of Transylvania.

25.   Ethnic Albanian militants and Macedonian security forces clashed in the tense northwestern region early Saturday, a day after a shadowy rebel group threatened a new insurgency.

26.   Estonia wants Russia to give back lands in its northwestern Pskov region.

27.   Fighting continued in the embattled northwestern Bihac region.

28.   Fighting in the northwestern Bihac region was less than in previous days, U.N. officials said Saturday.

29.   Fraga is the president of the northwestern autonomous region of Galicia and a founding member of the Popular Party.

30.   For now, Nikon will retire to the Pskov-Pechorsky Monastery in northwestern Pskov region, Hilarion said in a telephone interview.