1.  There was another raid Monday in the eastern provincial capital of Van, resulting in a shootout in which five police officers and two suspected Hizbullah militants were killed.

2.  A car bomb exploded Friday in an eastern Colombian state capital, damaging several shops and a government building.

3.  Businesses in a busy suburb of the eastern Punjab provincial capital shut down Friday to protest the shooting deaths of two Sunni Muslims outside a mosque.

4.  But EU officials said standing in the way of this was a lack of adequate funding and know-how in eastern capitals.

5.  But EU officials say a lack of adequate funding and know-how in eastern capitals could stand in the way.

6.  Eastern European capitals called that unfair, while several EU governments said it was still too generous.

7.  EU policy is not to mention any year for fear of creating unrealistic expectations in eastern capitals.

8.  Gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed a Shiite Muslim leader, his son and three bodyguards in the eastern Punjab capital of Lahore, police said Tuesday.

9.  He said about two-thirds of Zimbabwe, including Harare, the capital, and the eastern provincial capital of Mutare, were blacked out for seven hours.

10.  In the eastern Punjab capital of Lahore, police arrested the once powerful Punjab provincial secretary Aslam Qureshi, also on fraud charges.