1.   The troubled province is a hotbed of ethnic violence.

2.   At the same time, the governors of the troubled southern provinces of Bahr al-Ghazal and Equatoria were reported to have been replaced.

3.   During the campaign he suggested appointing a peace envoy to the troubled province an idea that angered and appalled the government.

4.   As the international community struggles to bring order to this troubled province, ethnic hatred remains the one intractable and potentially mortal issue.

5.   Valentin Krumov, fresh from completing a doctoral program at the University of Georgia, had arrived in the troubled Serbian province only that day.

6.   Panic also said that a genuine peace in the troubled Kosovo province could come about only as part of a general democratization of Yugoslav politics.

7.   Peacekeepers exchanged fire with suspected ethnic Albanian militants as violence surged in the troubled province.

8.   Qiao spoke to senior Communist Party, government and military leaders in Urumqi, capital of troubled Xinjiang province, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

9.   Police and ethnic Albanians exchanged fire in Kosovo on Wednesday, one day before a Serbian referendum on the troubled province.