71.   Schools in government-controlled villages along the front-line were closed, too.

72.   Russian forces also have been positioned outside other Ingush villages along the Chechen border.

73.   Russian forces claimed rebel fighters have been staying in Ingush villages along the Chechen border.

74.   Saleh has been traveling to Arab countries seeking support for Sudan since mid-January when the rebels began seizing villages along the borders with Ethiopia and Eritrea.

75.   Serbian troops backed by artillery battled ethnic Albanian rebels Monday in heavy house-to-house fighting, forcing the guerrillas out of this village along the volatile boundary with Kosovo.

76.   Six villages along Bucao river are considered highly at risk.

77.   Several Katyusha rockets hit near Israeli villages along the border with Lebanon Thursday, causing no injuries, the Israeli army reported.

78.   Six villages along the river are considered at high risk.

79.   So far, only a handful of homes have been flooded in villages along the Illinois shore.

80.   Shops were closed in towns and villages along the border in a commercial strike.