41.   The Bakassi Peninsula sits in the Gulf of Guinea and straddles the borders of the two West African countries.

42.   The pact came after the first meeting of top anti-drug officials of a region where gangs that straddle borders have benefited from lack of coordinated enforcement.

43.   The rebels had crossed into Uganda from the heavily forested Rwenzori Mountains that straddle the border between Uganda and Congo.

44.   The peninsula sits in the Gulf of Guinea and straddles the border between the two West African countries.

45.   The report said the settlements would be linked to Israel by incorporating them into local councils straddling the border.

46.   The two governments also have a territorial dispute over Halaib, an arid, but mineral-rich enclave that straddles their borders.

47.   The town straddles the border with Thailand and has long been known as a key smuggling route for drugs into Thailand and onto Western nations.

48.   Unpredictable weather is only part of the reason for the high number of casualties on the mountain that straddles the border between Tibet and Nepal.

49.   Yugoslav army troops on Thursday battled militant Kosovo Albanians on mountain straddling the border to Albania.

50.   And on the Gaza Strip they clashed with Palestinian gunmen near the town of Rafah that straddles the border with Egypt, wounding six of them with gunfire.