31.   The Russian troops Tuesday were also continuing a similar offensive in the southeast Vedeno region, another rebel stronghold.

32.   The southeast region of Chechnya is the prime base of support for Chechen separatist leader Dzhokhar Dudayev.

33.   The Russian troops Tuesday were also conducting reconnaissance missions in the southeast Vedeno region, another rebel stronghold near where two separatists were killed, the Russian command said.

34.   The talks will now go ahead in the Shali region southeast of the capital Grozny.

35.   Turkish officials said the army commander for the southeast region, General Hassan Kundakci, met last Saturday with Barzani to discuss the situation in northern Iraq.

36.   Two men froze to death in Istanbul and two others in southeast regions of Turkey that normally enjoy mild winters.

37.   Two men froze to death in Istanbul and two others in southeast regions that normally enjoy mild winters.

38.   Two civilians were killed and nine others were wounded in an ambush attack by suspected Kurdish rebels in the southeast Diyarbakir region, the Anatolian News Agnecy said Thursday.

39.   Two men froze to death in Istanbul that normally enjoy mild winters and two others in southeast regions of Turkey .

40.   It said the southeast Afar region and the eastern part of the country were hardest hit by flash floods caused by heavy rain which was continuing Wednesday.