101.   Security forces cordoned off the area, surrounded the government building and the home and a tense standoff ensued, the reports added.

102.   Reporters saw two houses smoldering later in the day in the village, where the two sides remained in a tense standoff.

103.   Since then, they have been involved in a series of tense standoffs with non-Bosnian Muslim fighters.

104.   Several thousand Serbians protesting NATO air strikes took to the streets in central Sydney on Sunday in a march that ended in a tense standoff with police.

105.   South Korean warships rammed and briefly repelled three North Korean patrol boats Friday, the fourth day of a tense armed standoff in disputed waters in the Yellow Sea.

106.   The agreement by the unions to let the employees go home ended a tense standoff late Friday that stretched into Saturday morning.

107.   Tense standoff at Jewish shrine.

108.   Tabouk turned himself in to Palestinian authorities Sunday night, ending a tense standoff just moments before a deadline set by PLO police, Israel Radio and eyewitnesses said.

109.   Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters faced riot police in a tense standoff on a Belgrade bridge late Sunday, and opposition leaders appealed for restraint.

110.   Tensions between India and Pakistan remain high, with both nations on war footing as the tense standoff over the disputed region of Kashmir continues.