81.   Cairo and Khartoum accuse each other of harbouring their opposition groups and are in dispute over the Halaib border strip.

82.   The retired Lebanese army general accused the authorities of harassment of travellers to and from the security zone and said inhabitants from the border strip were arbitrarily arrested.

83.   The SLA said the attack on their position at Sojud, in the centre of the Israeli-occupied border strip in southern Lebanon left no casualties.

84.   The source said the measure was explained by the Israeli occupation of a border strip in south Lebanon.

85.   The two countries are also in dispute over the Red Sea border strip of Halaib.

86.   There was no claim, although the Iranian-backed Hezbollah carries out most attacks in the border strip.

87.   Under the proposed deal Israel would withdraw from the border strip in return for the disarmament of Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas, the paper said.

88.   While Israeli-Syrian talks have been stalled since last February, Netanyahu has instead proposed talks on an Israeli withdrawal from an occupied border strip in southern Lebanon.

89.   Its commando returned without injury to its positions from the Israeli-occupied border strip.

90.   It had been involved in hydrocarbon exploration in Halayib but stopped operations due to a dispute between Egypt and Sudan over the border strip.