51.   As soldiers closed in Thursday on Kurdish rebels taking refuge in a mountainous area after a massive attack, new casualties were reported on a second front.

52.   Baghran is in a mountainous area at the northern tip of Helmand province.

53.   Both police and officials are refusing to say if Maoist rebels who have been fighting in remote mountainous areas were behind the blast.

54.   But conservationists blamed rockfalls on farming of vegetables and fruit trees, as well as golf courses and other entertainment facilities built in remote mountainous areas.

55.   But he said the drought has also adversely affected the livestock and poultry production in the mountainous Kurdish areas.

56.   But more than half of the people living in dry mountainous areas would face some difficulties.

57.   But it said dozens more bodies have been recovered in El-Haouz province, a mountainous area east of Marrakesh flooded by violent storms Thursday night.

58.   Clouds and precipitation were predicted in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, and snow was expected in mountainous areas.

59.   Dinniyah, a lightly populated mountainous area east of the northern port city of Tripoli, is known to be a haven for Jamaa Al-Islamiya.

60.   Earlier Sunday, government forces opened fire on the mountainous area where the kidnappers are believed to be hiding with their hostage.