11.   A fresh confrontation erupted Monday when Palestinian elementary school students hoisted a flag in their schoolyard, located just opposite a Jewish settler compound.

12.   Confrontations erupt on Lebanese border and Hezbollah abducts three Israeli soldiers.

13.   For the first time since the signing of the latest Mideast peace accord, violent confrontations erupted between Israelis and Palestinians Thursday in three areas of the West Bank.

14.   For the first time since the signing of the latest Mideast peace accord, violent confrontations erupted Thursday between Israelis and Palestinians in three areas of the West Bank.

15.   Further confrontations erupted between the Alawite community and radical Muslims after a fundamentalist party won the mayorship here in local elections last year.

16.   Gen. Rashid Quereshi said the confrontation erupted as more than two dozen prisoners were being transferred to a jail in northern Pakistan.

17.   In Gaza City, confrontations erupted over police attempts to arrest Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a Hamas leader, who said Friday he would not surrender.

18.   Military confrontation could erupt among claimants to the Spratly Islands because of the increasingly strong forces being deployed in the area, a Canadian security expert said Thursday.

19.   Rock-throwing confrontations also erupted near the Erez crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel, and near the Gaza town of Khan Yunis.

20.   Several tense confrontations erupted between police and smaller groups of protesters but they were negotiated with no arrests.