41.   In the northeastern cities of Dalian and Changchun, police asked train passengers to curse Falun Gong or show proof they were not group members, the e-mail said.

42.   Its proximity to Africa made it strategically important, and the government allowed the United States to use air bases in two northeastern cities.

43.   Legislators then called for a special parliamentary committee to investigate the slayings around the northeastern cities of Trieste and Gorizia and on the Istrian peninsula.

44.   Lopez was ordered into pretrial detention, while the other two were granted conditional release after appearing before a court in this northeastern city Wednesday.

45.   Meanwhile, a Seoul newspaper reported Tuesday that the North has decided to open up three northeastern industrial cities to foreign investment.

46.   One person was killed and at least four were seriously wounded Monday when an armed man went on the rampage in this northeastern Swiss city, police said.

47.   Officials in one northeastern Chinese city have banned fashion shows featuring male models dressed as women.

48.   Police in northeastern Changchun city on Sunday released Tang Yuanjuan, one of at least a dozen dissidents rounded up in the clampdown.

49.   Residents of Sabzevar rioted Thursday, smashing windows along main streets after a government decision that their northeastern Iranian city would not be declared a provincial capital.

50.   Some of the raids struck Serb positions around Tuzla, after Bosnian Serbs repeatedly shelled the U.N.-controlled airfield near the northeastern city.