11.   Fearing an exodus of Albanians, Greece and Italy have cut ferry service to Albania and Greece increased patrols along its northern frontiers.

12.   Greece maintains a minefield along its northeastern border with Turkey, but in recent years has been clearing other minefields along its northern frontier.

13.   Hostility between the two South Asian neighbors centers on the territorial dispute in the northern frontier province of Kashmir.

14.   In fact, India is trying hard to improve its relations with the nuclear power neighbor which spans its northern frontier.

15.   Israel, for its part, has threatened action against Syria if the violence along its northern frontier continues.

16.   Indian border guards shot and killed four Bangladeshi farmers plowing a rice field along the northern frontier Thursday, a Bangladeshi official said.

17.   Israel has threatened to take action against Syria if the violence along its northern frontier continues.

18.   Liberia says the Guinean army, backing Liberian rebels, has repeatedly shelled its northern frontier from artillery positions inside Guinea.

19.   Many Indians had been rooting against Pakistan, whose soldiers have been trading artillery with the Indian army along their disputed northern frontier in Kashmir.

20.   Meanwhile, the commander of an Indian army corps guarding the northern frontier with Pakistan said infiltration by Pakistan-based militants had decreased.