31.   Sensitive to increasing international scrutiny and the high cost of supporting the current regime, Russia has pushed the Tajik government into peace talks.

32.   The European Union on Wednesday pressed on with its insistence that U.S. rules on trade sanctions must come under international scrutiny.

33.   The European Union Wednesday pressed on with its insistence that U.S. rules on trade sanctions must come under international scrutiny.

34.   The trial attracted international scrutiny, with critics questioning whether the closed-door proceedings could be fair when there was no jury and the judge also acted as prosecutor.

35.   Under such international scrutiny, Swiss banks last May named an independent commission to check the claims of the Nazi victims and their heirs.

36.   Under international scrutiny, Bosnians started voting Saturday in nationwide elections to choose their own local governments for the first time since the years before their disastrous war.

37.   Vietnam is slowly adjusting to international scrutiny through the media.

38.   Vietnam, while pursuing economic reforms and liberalization, is struggling to cope with international scrutiny through the news media.

39.   With the election over, they feel a lack of international scrutiny makes them easy targets.

40.   In exchange, North Korea will freeze its nuclear programme and eventually throw open all its suspect facilities to international scrutiny.