41.   Serbs appear to have driven the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army from most of their remaining strongholds in the strategic central region of the embattled Serbian province.

42.   The commander said villages were in flames all over the embattled Yugoslav province.

43.   The council started discussing a report on the embattled Serbian province by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday morning and issued a statement after the closed meeting.

44.   The EU diplomats, who visited the embattled Serbian province Wednesday, said they saw extensive destruction caused by Serb forces.

45.   The diplomats, who visited the embattled Serbian province Wednesday, said they saw extensive destruction caused by Serb forces during their offensive.

46.   The KLA has taken up arms for independence of the embattled province.

47.   The refugees are ethnic Albanians driven from their homes in the embattled Yugoslav province by war.

48.   The rebel Kosovo Liberation Army controls small parcels of southwest Kosovo and has been funneling fighters and weapons into other parts of the embattled province.

49.   The U.S. envoy for Kosovo headed back to the region Wednesday to try to revive the stalled peace process for the embattled Yugoslav province.

50.   The United States is pledging to keep working on a formula for the future of embattled Kosovo province after the chief ethnic Albanian negotiator rejected the latest U.S. plan.