11.   An uneasy calm settled over Bawku and surrounding communities Monday night as a dusk-to-dawn curfew came into effect.

12.   Apparent calm settled over a Kremlin beset by bickering and scheming ever since the president ducked out of sight with heart problems in early summer.

13.   A general calm later settled on the region, although Israeli forces remained on high alert.

14.   Amid rekindled hopes for a ceasefire, a relative calm settled over the region with only scattered incidents of violence.

15.   But there were no signs of any imminent assault and by late afternoon an eerie calm had settled around the building.