1.   The immediate issue is whether creches will continue to be set up in the schools in several northeastern towns.

2.   Police in a northeastern town were on high alert Wednesday after receiving a threat that drug dealers would blow up a nearby dam with bombs.

3.   Outside the legislature, anti-nuclear activists and residents of Kungliao, the northeastern coastal town where the plant is being built, celebrated by setting off firecrackers.

4.   Police temporarily banned road traffic between the northeastern towns of Ruse, Varna, Shumen, Razgrad and Silistra, where hundreds of vehicles got stuck in the drifts.

5.   A Basque separatist died and a policeman was critically injured in a shootout Friday after a car chase near this northeastern Spanish town, police said.

6.   A poet who supported feminist author Taslima Nasrin canceled a visit to a northeastern town Wednesday after Islamic fundamentalists rioted against him.

7.   A suspect was in custody, said police in this northeastern town.

8.   An air force spokesman said an RAF helicopter picked both men out of the sea and took them to hospital in this northeastern English coastal town.

9.   An equipment failure caused several explosions at a natural gas plant last week that forced the evacuation of this northeastern British Columbia town.

10.   Anti-immigrant protesters clashed with riot police late Thursday on the third consecutive night of racial demonstrations in this northeastern town, news reports said.