11.   Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi travels to Turkey and Syria Thursday to mediate in the escalating dispute between the two countries, the Iranian news agency reported.

12.   Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi arrived in Damascus Thursday to join in efforts to mediate the escalating dispute between Turkey and Syria.

13.   Negotiators from Japan and the United States began two days of working-level talks in Tokyo Thursday aimed at defusing an escalating dispute over aviation.

14.   Queensland Energy Minister Tony McGrady called on MIM Holdings Ltd. to intervene to solve the escalating industrial dispute at the outback city in northwest Queensland.

15.   The escalating dispute has threatened to derail the new Mideast peace accord.

16.   The court ruling addressed the escalating dispute over Palestinian bodies still in the Jenin refugee camp.

17.   The European Union denounced Canada for trying to board a Spanish fishing boat off Newfoundland Thursday in an escalating dispute over fishing quotas.

18.   The United States proposed to Japan Friday that the two countries meet in mid-June for a new round of talks aimed at resolving an escalating dispute over auto trade.

19.   U.S. worries about escalating dispute.

20.   Vagnorius and President Valdas Adamkus had been locked in an escalating dispute that focused largely on questions of styles of governing rather than on issues.