11.   News of the renewed fighting came a day before representatives from both countries were to meet in Brasil to discuss mapping the long-disputed border zone.

12.   The fighting came as LTTE gunmen killed an officer and six soldiers during an ambush in the eastern village of Welikanda Sunday.

13.   The latest fighting came as several western countries threatened this week to pull their troops out of ex-Yugoslavia unless there was a breakthrough in the peace process.