31.   A Turk, three Britons, and a New Zealander, as well as many more Russians captured in surrounding regions, are known to be held there.

32.   A U.N. diplomat has been appointed to oversee U.N. humanitarian operations in eastern Zaire and the surrounding region.

33.   After hammering surrounding regions early Friday, Russian artillery fell mostly silent for the rest of the day.

34.   After hammering surrounding regions with artillery early Friday, Russian artillery fell mostly silent for the rest of the day.

35.   Adolphe Onusumba, head of the Rwandan-backed rebels who control Goma and the surrounding region, implored residents not to try to return to their homes.

36.   After six years in Serb hands, Vukovar and the surrounding region, known as eastern Slavonia, returned to Croatian rule last January.

37.   Banyoles and the surrounding region in Catalonia have the highest concentration of African immigrants in Spain.

38.   Blida and the surrounding region has been the site of repeated bombings and massacres by suspected Islamic militants.

39.   Bosnian Serb and Croatian Serb forces, together with rebel Muslims, are closing in on the embattled town of Bihac and its surrounding region in northwestern Bosnia.

40.   Bosnian government forces will relinquish the town of Mrkonjic Grad and a surrounding mountainous region to the Serb entity.