21.   Hindu-dominated India refuses to play against Pakistan because of simmering political tensions between the neighbors.

22.   Illustrating the simmering tensions, a dawn explosion destroyed a Serb-owned restaurant in a Brcko suburb.

23.   India has refused to allow its cricket team to play Pakistan during the last two years because of simmering political tensions between the nuclear neighbors.

24.   India has refused to allow its cricket team to play Pakistan during the past two years because of simmering political tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

25.   It was the second explosion in two days and highlighted simmering tensions in the southwestern Bosnian town, which is divided into Muslim and Croat halves.

26.   Remes Lenicov is betting that the extra cash that can be withdrawn will keep the lid on simmering social tensions.

27.   Simmering tensions between the two exploded last week after Montenegrin Premier Milo Djukanovic accused Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic of incompetence and said he should quit.

28.   Simmering tensions were brought to a boil last month by an exchange of artillery fire across their northern border.

29.   Simmering ethnic tensions prompted authorities to cancel polling in a number of towns and villages in oil-rich southwestern Nigeria.

30.   Talks also will focus on simmering ethnic tensions in neighboring Burundi, where the same Hutu-Tutsi animosities have spawned open hatred and bloodshed.