11.   Relations between regional rivals Greece and Turkey have steadily improved since deadly earthquakes struck Turkey and Greece last year, leading both peoples to rush aid to each other.

12.   South Korea on Thursday asked Japan not to rush food aid to North Korea before the communist country accepts aid from its capitalist neighbor to the south.

13.   The Clinton administration rushed disaster aid and law enforcement teams to Oklahoma City on Wednesday after a large car bomb killed children and workers at a federal office building.

14.   The U.N. refugee agency, meanwhile, is trying to rush new aid to the latest wave of refugees around Banja Luka, a spokeswoman said Thursday.

15.   The United Nations and the European Commission also were rushing emergency aid to the scene.

16.   U.N. and Red Cross relief agencies are trying to rush aid to Omarska, but are overwhelmed with the scale of the refugee problem throughout northwestern Bosnia.

17.   He declined to say whether he would recommend to US President Bill Clinton that Washington should rush additional aid to the communist North.

18.   Earlier plans to rush the aid to Bosnia by a Swedish military Hercules plane have been cancelled since the UNHCR announced Monday that the refugee situation had stabilised.

19.   Khaleda Zia, chief of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, issued a statement calling on Sheikh Hasina to rush aid to flood victims.

20.   The flooding has caused widespread damage to homes and crops, government officials said, adding that aid was being rushed to the areas.