11.   Macedonian villagers kept up several road blockades, including overturned cars and rocks, in a tense area of the second-largest city of Tetovo.

12.   Mortar shells were fired at a Serbian police patrol in a tense area next to Kosovo province, police said Monday.

13.   Soldiers of the NATO-led peace force confiscated weapons from Muslims in a tense former front-line area in northeastern Bosnia, a spokesman said Monday.

14.   Suspected Muslim militants killed a policeman and a civilian Sunday in a tense area of southern Egypt.

15.   The demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas remains a tense area that still sees military flareups and clashes.

16.   The government approved a draft law Thursday that grants amnesty to ethnic Albanian rebels who fought Serbian security forces in a tense southern Serbian area.

17.   The German foreign minister also called on Croatia to desist from more military action, especially in the tense areas of Eastern Slavonia and the Dubrovnik region.

18.   The situation deteriorated in the tense area after two Serbs went missing there earlier in the week.

19.   The U.N. refugee agency urged the creation of a larger force capable of assisting in the return of tens of thousands of displaced people to tense areas.

20.   The Vecernje Novosti daily reported that several Serbs were kidnapped in a tense area near the Albanian border.