21.   Rescue operations were thwarted as the storm pounded the area for a second day, dumping rain from eastern India to Bangladesh and parts of Myanmar.

22.   Russian warplanes and artillery pounded three areas of Chechnya over the past day, an official in the Moscow-backed Chechen administration said Monday.

23.   Serb tanks had taken position in the hills opposite Racak and pounded the area with artillery.

24.   Shelling pounded the area Saturday, and a Thai military officer at the border said there was fighting around Samrong on Friday night.

25.   The attack came from both north and west, the forces pounding the area with frequent tank, rocket and Katyusha fire, according to photographers at the scene.

26.   The airstrikes draw heavy anti-aircraft fire as they pound areas around the presidential palace and beyond.

27.   The hills surrounding the jars are scarred with scorched craters left by U.S. bombers who pounded the area during the Indochina War.

28.   The planes from NATO nations also pounded the area of Pale, the Bosnian Serb stronghold southeast of Sarajevo.

29.   The security officials said that Israeli artillery began pounding the area soon after the first encounter.

30.   The storm weakened to a tropical storm before moving Sunday into southeastern China, where it pounded coastal areas with torrential rains.