61.   Fighting for Bihac continued, with government troops facing Serbs from Bosnia, from the neighboring Krajina region of Croatia, and a renegade Muslim force.

62.   Fighting also took place in the neighboring region of Ingushetia, where residents share ethnic ties with the Chechens and support them against Moscow.

63.   Fighting for Bihac continued, with outgunned government troops facing rebel Serbs from Bosnia, Serbs from the neighboring Krajina region of Croatia, and a renegade Muslim force.

64.   Forces in the neighboring Russian region of Dagestan were put on alert Sunday near the border with Chechnya amid fears of a new rebel attack.

65.   He also said the security agencies intentionally provoked incursions by rebels from Chechnya into Dagestan, a neighboring Russian region, around the same time.

66.   He has kept Moscow gas prices lower than those in neighboring regions, which means suppliers have looked elsewhere for customers.

67.   He has also been unable to stem a wave of kidnappings and other crimes that has plagued Chechnya and spilled into neighboring regions since the war.

68.   He said some aid was being stolen in neighboring regions, and said the refugee crisis would soon end because the republic was becoming stable.

69.   He was then put on a military truck, taken to the border with the neighboring Russian region of Ingushetia and released.

70.   Heavy rains, which have prevailed across southern Spain all week, also forced the closure of roads elsewhere in southern Valencia and in the neighboring region of Murcia.