71.   Army colonel Rohitha Wickrematilake was crossing a lagoon in the northeastern region of Kokilai when his boat capsized on Saturday afternoon and drowned him, officials said.

72.   Dozens of people were injured in clashes Thursday between Algerian ethnic Berber demonstrators and riot police in the chief town of the northeastern Kabylie region, medical staff said.

73.   The Tiger radio said their biggest single kill was the attack against an army garrison in the northeastern region of Mullaitivu in July.

74.   They will be concentrated on the less developed northeastern region of China, where the Orient group is based, it added.

75.   The Tigray Hotel is owned by ethnic Tigreans who inhabit the northeastern region of Tigray where Meles also comes from.

76.   The Water Development Board said the water levels in all major rivers continued rise, with those in the northeastern regions above the flood danger mark.

77.   Two others were meanwhile killed in the northeastern Kabylie region, the agency reported.

78.   Their bodies, along with that of their pet poodle, were found Saturday in a canal near the town of Niffer in the northeastern French region of Alsace.

79.   Kadhafi was addressing officials from the northeastern region of Darna.

80.   It said the clashes last Wednesday and Thursday occurred in the northeastern region of Niafunke, near Tombouctou, and in the region of Gao further east.