11.   The latest battle between the Abgal and Murosade sub-clans erupted before dawn and lasted for more than an hour before elders from both sides brought it to an end.

12.   The shooting erupted before noon and lasted several hours.

13.   Violence almost erupted before noon and an elderly protester was injured when police, using a bulldozer and an armored personnel carrier, removed the barricades.

14.   Violence almost erupted before noon, and an elderly protester was injured when police, using a bulldozer and an armored personnel carrier, tried to lift the barricades.

15.   Violence erupted before dawn as heavily armed government troops tried to force faction leader Roosevelt Johnson from his home in the eastern suburb of Sinkor.

16.   France has been a notably vociferous opponent of the Russian action in breakaway Chechnya, which has seen a large number of civilian casualties since erupting shortly before Christmas.

17.   Crack Algerian commandos were summoned to the airport after the crisis erupted shortly before midday, and had taken up position around the aircraft.

18.   The unrest erupted hours before US President Bill Clinton was due in Jakarta for an Asia-Pacific summit.

19.   Pro-Arafat guerrillas seized offices, a cultural centre and a kindergarten controlled by the dissidents in violence which erupted before dawn.

20.   The border firing erupted minutes before the opening of a South Asian regional summit in Nepal, attended by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.