31.   In Kandahar city, food aid returned on Friday for the first time in weeks due to U.S. bombing raids.

32.   It suffered serious damage in World War II bombing raids, and the victorious Red Army took parts of it back to the Soviet Union after the war.

33.   Israel then retaliated with deadly bombing raids on Lebanon, drawing an intensified rocket attack by Hezbollah which killed two Israelis.

34.   Like many other Hanoi residents, Ngo evacuated her children to the countryside but continued working in the city during U.S. bombing raids.

35.   Libya and Iraq, which have been on the receiving end of U.S. bombing raids, were quick to condemn NATO.

36.   Meanwhile Friday, federal jets kept up bombing raids near the border between Chechnya and the neighboring Russian region of Dagestan, where rebels have attacked federal troops.

37.   NATO bombing raids appeared imminent after Yugoslavia rejected the terms of a peace settlement in Kosovo, the province where Yugoslav forces are battling ethnic Albanian guerrillas.

38.   NATO carried on with its bombing raids just the same, hitting at least three Serbian towns early Monday, local media reported.

39.   NATO conducted bombing raids Monday despite bad weather, returning to sites already hard hit in the air campaign.

40.   Opposition troops along the front line have been withdrawing from their posts during the U.S. bombing raids in order to avoid being hit by strays, Bari said.