41.   Emirates President Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan offered to mediate after rebels seized a strip of land along the Ethiopian border.

42.   Farmers fear the possibility of new restrictions on private land along many Southwestern rivers, after the government declared the region a critical habitat for an endangered minnow.

43.   Floods are frequent in India, where houses and shops often encroach on public land along the river banks.

44.   Hezbollah has continued to carry out occasional attacks on a disputed patch of land along the Israeli-Lebanese border.

45.   Israeli troops control a narrow strip of land along the border and Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers have often exchanged fire in the area.

46.   Lebanon maintains that Israel is still occupying tracts of its land along the border.

47.   Meanwhile, Israel made a unilateral move, declaring a strip of West Bank land along the Israeli border a closed military zone.

48.   Mines kill or injure dozens of people every month and render stretches of land along the former front line unusable.

49.   Mines kill or injure dozens of people every month and render unusable stretches of land along the former front line.

50.   Mine explosions kill and injure dozens of people every month, and minefields render stretches of land along the former front line of the war unusable.