51.   New aid convoys reached the northwestern Bihac region Thursday, but aid officials said they still were far short of the regular deliveries needed to alleviate rampant hunger.

52.   On Sunday, rebels killed a Presbyterian pastor and his family of five in the northwestern Gisenyi region.

53.   Officials also reported heavy fighting persisted for the third day close to the renegade Muslim stronghold of Velika Kladusa in the volatile northwestern region.

54.   On Tuesday, Wahid visited Aceh, a far northwestern region that also has been the scene of a bloody separatist struggle.

55.   Pahlawan, the opposition commander for the northwestern region, denied the Taliban radio report, however.

56.   Police in the northwestern region of Catalonia said they would continue to study existing laws in hopes of building a case against the two men.

57.   Romania and Hungary have a long history of strained relations over the Hungarian minority that lives in the northwestern region of Transylvania.

58.   Spanish national radio reporter Margarita Diaz said the fishing dispute is vitally important to the northwestern region of Galicia where nearly everyone lives off the sea.

59.   The agency subsequently pulled all local staff from the town and suspended all its operations in the northwestern region, he said.

60.   The agency subsequently pulled all local staff from the town and suspended all its operations in the northwestern region of the country, he said.