31.   Meanwhile, a French aid worker apparently abducted for ransom managed to escape his captors and reach the capital, Grozny, news reports said.

32.   News from remote areas of this vast archipelago nation often reaches the capital several days later.

33.   News of the accident reached the capital, Dhaka, late Saturday.

34.   Now, as civil war reaches the capital, death has become a brutal reality for Luminda and other homeless children.

35.   Once confined mainly to rural and isolated areas of Algeria, the increasingly savage insurgent violence has now reached the capital, Algiers.

36.   Ondekane said rebel soldiers were still around Kinshasa, and were blocking supplies from reaching the capital from the key Atlantic Ocean port town of Matadi.

37.   Other farmers also stopped commercial traffic from reaching the capital by blocking highways near the southern port city of Patras.

38.   Police said they would attempt to prevent the bus from reaching the capital, and were expecting to stop the bus in Corinth.

39.   Protesters trying to to reach the capital were forced to retreat after police began firing tear gas.

40.   Reports from many remote areas were yet to reach the capital Katmandu.