31.   Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Vollebaek said the decision was made after extensive consultations with other countries because of worsening security in the embattled Serbian province.

32.   On Wednesday, they closed the main exit route for ethnic Albanians fleeing from Kosovo into Albania, forcing tens of thousands of refugees back inside the embattled province.

33.   On Wednesday, they closed the main route that refugees have been taking into Albania, forcing tens of thousands of people back inside the embattled province.

34.   Others are waiting to make contact with family members still inside the embattled province.

35.   Sally Becker, a British aid worker imprisoned by the Serbs in embattled Kosovo province, was released Friday, diplomats and the state-run Serbian television said.

36.   Reports of recent massacres among civilian ethnic Albanians in the embattled Serbian Kosovo province have heightened the likelihood of NATO airstrikes against military targets in Yugoslavia.

37.   Sally Becker, a British aid worker imprisoned by the Serbs in embattled Kosovo province, has been released and is en route to Britain, diplomats said Friday.

38.   Sally Becker, a British aid worker imprisoned by the Serbs in the embattled Kosovo province, will be released and deported, diplomats said Friday.

39.   Solana stressed that NATO was poised to intervene in the embattled Yugoslav province whenever he, in consultation with alliance members, decided the time was right.

40.   Serbia began preventing Kosovars from leaving the embattled province as the refugee wave approached the half-million mark.