31.   Savuth and two other negotiators met Hun Sen near this northwestern town in the highest-level peace talks yet held on government territory since the Khmer Rouge split last month.

32.   Sporadic gunfire also continued around the northwestern towns of Sweh, Mecca, Tubmanburg and diamond-rich Lofa Bridge, defense officials said.

33.   Suspected leftist rebels stopped a van carrying the mayor of a northwestern Colombian town, then shot him to death, police said Friday.

34.   Sporadic fighting was also reported around the northwestern towns of Tubmanburg and Swehn-Mecca, as well as along the road linking northern and central Liberia.

35.   Sporadic fighting was also reported Wednesday around the northwestern towns of Tubmanburg and Swehn-Mecca, as well as along the road linking northern and central Liberia.

36.   The army has deployed troops to two northwestern Uganda towns near the border with Sudan after they were bombed by a Sudanese aircraft, a radio station said Tuesday.

37.   The agreement was already in question after the rebels announced fresh territorial gains last week, capturing northwestern towns of Gbadolite and Gemena.

38.   The Brahmaputra River burst its banks at many places and flooded large parts of a northwestern town Wednesday, bringing more deaths and disease, officials said.

39.   The former rebel stronghold of Pailin, a northwestern town where Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan have chosen to live, will have its say.

40.   The government army battled renegade Muslims for control of a northwestern town Friday and dug in elsewhere in the region to protect recent gains from an anticipated Serb onslaught.