1.   No Republicans serve on the House agriculture committee representing Northeastern districts, much less any districts with high-cost milk industries.

2.   Police said rival groups battled with crude bombs and knives in a northeastern district, and the brother of a candidate was killed.

3.   Another boat sank in the northeastern Habiganj district, killing all five on board, local newspapers reported.

4.   Another country boat sank in northeastern Habiganj district, killing all five people on board, local newspapers reported.

5.   Both lawmakers represented the northeastern Trincomalee district, which is part of an area the Tamils want to make a homeland.

6.   Elsewhere, government soldiers shot and killed seven Tamil separatist rebels in a clash in a northeastern district, the military said Thursday.

7.   Five rebels were killed by soldiers near the government controlled Oddusuddan town in northeastern Mullaitivu district on Friday, the Defense Ministry said.

8.   Government soldiers shot and killed seven Tamil separatist rebels in a clash in a northeastern district, the military said Thursday.

9.   Hardest hit are Mandera and other arid and semiarid northeastern districts inhabited by nomadic ethnic Somalis.

10.   Hundreds of troops and police searched northeastern districts of Grozny on Thursday for separatist fighters, Chechen officials said.