51.   Rival clans fought fierce street battles for a fourth day Tuesday.

52.   Rival clans resumed fighting early Friday, breaking a day-old cease-fire with mortars, rifles and grenades.

53.   Sporadic gunfire was heard in Mogadishu on Saturday, a day after rival clans clashed in the heaviest fighting since the United Nations withdrew in March.

54.   The convicted killers were themselves Palestinian security officers engaged in a longstanding feud with a rival clan.

55.   The motive for the attacks was unknown, but Ngolweni and other areas of KwaZulu-Natal have been wracked for years by fighting between rival clans or political factions.

56.   The local leaders claim the fighters were hired by members of the Borana community to intimidate and kill members of the rival Degodia clan.

57.   The military said gun battles between rival clans continued Monday.

58.   The president recently ended a long civil war in the former Soviet republic, but the country still is torn by rival clans battling for territory and influence.

59.   The state-run Associated Press of Pakistan said local tribesman attacked the police van that was carrying six rival clan members to the courthouse.

60.   Tribesmen in a remote corner of northwestern Pakistan ambushed a van carrying rival clan members, killing six people and wounding six more, a newspaper reported Sunday.