21.   Franceville is in the isolated southeastern region of Gabon.

22.   Heightened military activity was seen in the southeastern region with buses ferrying soldiers to locations along the border.

23.   In return, said the newspaper, Shell wanted leaders of the oil-rich southeastern Nigerian region of Ogoniland to call off global protests against Shell.

24.   In the meantime, Turkey also stepped up its offensive against the Turkish Kurdish rebels in the southeastern region since last week.

25.   It said there had been an upsurge in violence since May, particularly in the southeastern regions.

26.   It survived the transition to democracy, largely because of its traditional power base in the southeastern region, Youngnam.

27.   Kurdish guerrillas, fighting for autonomy within Turkey, stage hit-and-run attacks from their bases in northern Iraq against targets in the southeastern region.

28.   Local officials in Puglia, the southeastern region that has received most of the Albanians, say their towns are full to overflowing with refugees.

29.   No elections will be held in the southeastern Somali region, which has been hard-hit by drought and severe food shortages.

30.   One miner died at the Stashkova mine in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region due to an unspecified violation of safety rules, the Emergency Situations Ministry reported.