21.   Faced with escalating violence in Kosovo, two top NATO officials warned both sides in the separatist province Wednesday against launching more attacks.

22.   Ethnic Albanians continued streaming out of the separatist province into Albania, with tens of thousands already across the border or waiting to do so.

23.   Georgia put its troops on alert after accusing the separatist Abkhazia province of trying to drop paratroopers in a border area, officials said Thursday.

24.   Government forces overran another ethnic Albanian stronghold Monday and pressed their attacks elsewhere in the separatist Kosovo province.

25.   In a letter sent to Balkan, European and U.S. leaders, Demirel warned that the situation in the separatist province could degenerate into another Bosnia.

26.   In capital Belgrade, a top NATO delegation met Milosevic Sunday to demand more pullbacks of army and police units from the separatist province, where scattered skirmishes continue.

27.   International envoys renewed efforts Thursday to find a political settlement for Kosovo after the release of eight army soldiers lessened tensions in the separatist Serbian province.

28.   It has also been accused of human rights violations, not only in East Timor, but also in the separatist provinces of Aceh and Irian Jaya.

29.   It was the latest in a series of attacks against Said Amirov, mayor of Makhachkala, capital of the Dagestan region that borders on separatist Chechnya province.

30.   Late last week the main east-west artery in the separatist province was closed because of fighting.