21.   With its small restaurants, hotels and a bakery lining the downtown street, it was a nice change from the uninhabited islands.

22.   Activists led by several lawmakers from the opposition New Party said failure to grant permission would be tantamount to a renunciation of sovereignty over the uninhabited islands.

23.   An old dispute over the uninhabited islands reignited in July after the rightists built the lighthouse.

24.   Athens blocked the aid after a dispute over an uninhabited island in the Aegean Sea.

25.   But Foreign Ministry officials say the sovereignty question may be hard to avoid given the sensitivity over the uninhabited islands, claimed by Japan, Taiwan and China.

26.   China warned Japan Tuesday that relations could suffer if Tokyo does not halt landings by its citizens on a disputed chain of uninhabited islands.

27.   Failure to grant such permission again would be tantamount to a renunciation of sovereignty over the uninhabited islands, he said.

28.   Fishermen saw the aircraft explode when it hit the ground late Friday night on an uninhabited island near the mainland, said firefighter Samuel Santos.

29.   It persistently denies press reports published last week that it had driven out Eritrean forces which briefly occupied the three uninhabited islands.

30.   Japan is ready to take action if Chinese activists from Hong Kong illegally challenge its control over a group of uninhabited islands, the coast guard said Tuesday.