31.   But it has been pushed back from the southern and western fringes of the capital in heavy fighting over the past week.

32.   China demanded Friday that NATO immediately stop bombing Yugoslavia to push forward a peace deal Belgrade accepted to end the fighting over Kosovo.

33.   Eleven rebels and a soldier were killed during a clash between government soldiers and members of an ethnic group fighting over disputed territory.

34.   Ethiopia and Eritrea have been locked in a border dispute since May, when heavy fighting over disputed border regions left hundreds dead.

35.   Eritrea also said it had destroyed two tanks and shot down a helicopter in the fighting over the weekend.

36.   Food shortages caused by years of drought in Afghanistan have been compounded by intensive fighting over the last weeks.

37.   He had been wounded in recent fighting over a neighborhood south Mogadishu.

38.   He said that despite some fighting over the past weeks, the cease-fire had been a success.

39.   Hundreds of people were killed in sporadic fighting over the next decade or so.

40.   Intense fighting over the past few weeks has prevented relief agencies from supplying the government-held city with much-needed food and medicine.