31.   A Russian soldier serving on the Tajik-Afghan border was killed in an outlying region of the Tajik capital, the interior ministry said Thursday.

32.   A Tajik security ministry officer and another from the defence ministry were killed late Friday in separate attacks in outlying regions of the Tajik capital, military officials said.

33.   A Russian officer serving on the Tajik-Afghan border was killed in an outlying region of the Tajik capital, the interior ministry said Sunday.

34.   As well as sending troops to more outlying regions, the army has since February taken on more youths as troops in Kinshasa.

35.   ECOMOG soldiers policing the highway in western Liberia said the victims were all believed to be market workers who commute between Monrovia and outlying regions in the west.

36.   There also were disturbances in outlying regions of the capital but no information was available on the extent of the damage caused by the rioting there.

37.   Many commuters trying to reach Nairobi from outlying regions were forced to turn back Thursday because of the flooding.

38.   The observers were speaking after arriving back in the capital from outlying regions of Algeria where they had been monitoring the vote.