1.   Although they refused last month to renew the truce, both the government and rebel leaders agreed to pursue the Kenyan peace initiative.

2.   Attacks on U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia have risen, and France, with the largest contingent in Bosnia, has threatened to withdraw unless the truce was renewed.

3.   Both sides have said they are not interested in renewing the truce.

4.   Both the rebel Serbs and the Muslim-led government scorned appeals to renew the truce Saturday, as heavy fighting erupted across northern Bosnia.

5.   Both the rebel Serbs and the Muslim-led government scorned appeals to renew the truce, as heavy fighting erupted across northern Bosnia.

6.   Fighting erupts across northern Bosnia Saturday as both government and rebel Serbs scorn appeals to renew a truce.

7.   In a trip to Sudan last month, he was unable to convince the two sides to renew the truce.

8.   Officials from five nations -- the United States, Russia, Britain, France and Germany -- met in Paris Friday and urged both sides to renew the truce.

9.   The five-nation Contact Group -- the United States, Russia, Britain, France and Germany -- urged both sides to renew the truce.

10.   The LTTE had renewed their truce three times, and demanded the government also halt fighting and lift a ban on the organization so that peace talks could begin.