21.   The Polish parliament passed a resolution supporting Belarusian lawmakers and warning that the political conflict threatens the whole region.

22.   The steadily worsening conflict threatens to engulf the entire region in war.

23.   The two conflicts threaten to blur into one.

24.   The Zaire conflict threatened to split the African continent into French and English factions, South African President Thabo Mbeki says Wednesday.

25.   The Zaire conflict threatened to split the African continent into French and English factions, South African Vice President Thabo Mbeki says.

26.   With nationwide elections for local government posts scheduled for October, the renewed conflict threatens stability in the former KwaZulu black homeland, now part of KwaZulu-Natal province.

27.   Within Iraq, meanwhile, several conflicts threaten to boil over.

28.   Until a peace deal involving the sending of a NATO disarmament force was agreed to last August, the conflict was threatening to push Macedonia into all-out war.

29.   On the agenda will be conflicts threatening several member states, such as Yemen, Rwanda and Bosnia.

30.   The attacks caused no casualties or damage, but the port conflict is threatening to erupt into another round of bloodletting in the lawless Horn of Africa country.