51.   Chechen authorities have been unable to control numerous gangs responsible for kidnappings and other violence in Chechnya that often spill into neighboring regions.

52.   Chechen authorities say dozens of civilians have died, although the president of the neighboring region of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev, said it was hundreds.

53.   Chechen kidnappers often cross the border to seize victims in neighboring regions as well.

54.   Clothes and food have arrived from neighboring regions in the North Caucasus, and at least one from Germany, the refugees said.

55.   Chechens fleeing fighting with Russians have overwhelmed the neighboring region of Dagestan, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said Tuesday.

56.   Dagestani authorities said the gunmen appeared to be from the same group blamed for an attack on a neighboring region last week, the fundamentalist Wahhabi Islamic movement.

57.   Crime is rampant in Chechnya and neighboring regions, where stealing cattle and kidnappings for ransom are quite common.

58.   Doctors prevented six people from passing into the neighboring Kinshasa region because they had fevers, but there was no indication they were suffering from Ebola.

59.   Even before Albania opened up after the fall of its xenophobic Communist rulers, ethnic Albanians in the neighboring Yugoslav regions of Macedonia and Kosovo were running drugs.

60.   Eyow said at least two people and dozens of livestock, especially camels, were being killed in land mine explosions each week in Galgudud and neighboring Hiran regions.