1.   He said the current fighting has also sparked a rise in mental health problems, especially among children.

2.   The fighting has sparked an exodus of civilians out of the villages north of the Terek River.

3.   Fears were high Friday that the Nablus fighting could spark a renewed wave of violence even as the cease-fire deadline wound down.

4.   The fighting sparked a new refugee crisis as tens of thousands of Serb civilians fled the government offensive and Serbs expelled remaining non-Serbs from their territory.

5.   Western powers fear the fighting could spark a wider war in the Balkans and have tried to help negotiate a peaceful solution to the conflict.

6.   NATO was particularly concerned by the situation in Bihac in northwest Bosnia, where fierce fighting has sparked fears of a wider Balkan war, Claes said.

7.   The fighting has sparked hundreds of thousands of mainly Rwandan Hutus into flight, fearing they will be killed.