31.   A top ethnic Albanian politician demanded Friday that foreign powers intervene to stop fighting in Kosovo and warned violence could spill into neighboring regions.

32.   A top ethnic Albanian politician demanded international action to stop fighting in Kosovo Friday and warned violence could spill into neighboring regions.

33.   Aid packages of clothes and food have arrived from neighboring regions in the North Caucasus, and at least one from Germany, the refugees said.

34.   Akashi said he won Croatian Serb agreement Tuesday to stop harassment of vital aid convoys for the neighboring Bihac region.

35.   Also Tuesday, Russian forces tightened security on the border between rebel Chechnya and neighboring region of Ingushetia, which included more searches and dogs sniffing vehicles for explosives.

36.   Among the homes destroyed was the residence of Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who led Islamic militants in two attacks against the neighboring Russian region of Dagestan this summer.

37.   An official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has been kidnapped in a neighboring region to breakaway Chechnya in southern Russia, authorities said Friday.

38.   An unknown number have come to Nazran, the main city in Ingushetia, a neighboring ethnic region that has close ties with Chechnya.

39.   Armed gangs roaming Chechnya and the neighboring Russian regions have made kidnapping for ransom a booming business.

40.   Armed Chechen fighters rallied Sunday and threatened to use force to free two comrades held captive in a neighboring region of southern Russia.