11.  Sudanese rebels said Friday they captured a strategic bridge across the Bo River, halfway between the towns of Wau and Tambura in southwestern Sudan.

12.  Surrounding villages and strategic bridges to the south of Grozny are now becoming Russian targets as well.

13.  The column of reinforcements was ambushed at a strategic bridge east of the city, UNITA said.

14.  This reporter saw two peacekeepers chained to a strategic bridge on the outskirts of Pale.

15.  In anticipation of an onslaught on Jaffna town, LTTE guerrillas have blown up a strategic bridge along a northern coastal axis to Jaffna, officials said.

16.  A new bridge in southern Croatia which replaces a strategic bridge destroyed during the war was opened to traffic Monday, the Croatian news agency Hina reported.

17.  Earlier Thursday, Russian warplanes bombarded a strategic bridge in an apparent bid to isolate the Chechen capital.

18.  Leftist rebels have also blown up two strategic bridges near Medellin this week.

19.  Police Commissioner Mario Migin said two youths died from gunshot wounds during clashes between police and jobless demonstrators who were trying to block a strategic bridge in Buenos Aires.

20.  Special Forces units backed by infantry troops, helicopter gunships and naval support crossed a strategic bridge at Panichchenkerni in the district of Batticaloa late Thursday, officials said.