11.   Amid a simmering dispute with China, Japan on Tuesday reaffirmed its claim to a disputed island chain.

12.   At the time, the simmering dispute between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo was cited as a reason for dispatching the force.

13.   But relations have begun to sour recently amid several simmering disputes, including over Iraq.

14.   But Wolf, who worked third base, said his big moment was tarnished by the simmering dispute.

15.   But the talks, which run through Wednesday, also are expected to touch on a simmering dispute over sanctions.

16.   Greece has simmering disputes in the region with Turkey over the division of Cyprus and with Macedonia over the use of the name of their country.

17.   Its release to media appeared to be a warning shot in a simmering diplomatic dispute between the two onetime partners in the Czechoslovak federation.

18.   Nano also discussed another simmering dispute involving ethnic Albanians with Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov, whose country also has a large and restive ethnic-Albanian minority.

19.   Nano also discussed another simmering dispute involving ethnic Albanians with Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov, whose country also has a large and restive minority.

20.   Norway, Russia, Iceland and the Faeroe Islands cooled a simmering fishing dispute Monday by agreeing on quotas for vast herring stocks in the Northeast Atlantic.