91.   Amid ongoing fighting in Kosovo province, ethnic Albanian rebels were inching toward signing a U.S.-backed peace deal.

92.   Although the Serbs were stopped on a different road, the incident underscores the tensions and lack of trust between Yugoslav authorities and the ethnic Albanian rebels.

93.   Although the Serbs were stopped on another road, the incident underscores the tensions and lack of trust between Yugoslav authorities and the ethnic Albanian rebels.

94.   Also Thursday, ethnic Albanian rebels ambushed a Macedonian police convoy near the border village of Brest, which was evacuated earlier by the insurgents.

95.   An ethnic Albanian rebel group that calls itself the Albanian National Army claimed authorities staged the incident, executing seven people previously arrested while traveling through the country.

96.   Also Tuesday, the Serb government in Kosovo accused ethnic Albanian rebels of killing the five Albanian civilians whose bullet-riddled bodies were found in southwestern Kosovo Monday.

97.   An ancient Christian Orthodox Church has been destroyed in a fire in nortwestern Macedonia, the authorities said Sunday, blaming ethnic Albanian rebels for alleged arson.

98.   An intense exchange of gunfire early Tuesday in northwestern Macedonia threatened to scuttle the shaky truce that government forces and ethnic Albanian rebels declared a day earlier.

99.   American troops moved Thursday into a Kosovo border village after ethnic Albanian rebels evacuated the area.

100.   An ethnic Albanian rebel commander, contacted by satellite telephone from Austria, said NATO attacks were having a serious impact on Serb forces in Kosovo.