31.   Feuding neighbors Eritrea and Ethiopia failed to reach a formula to end their tense border standoff after two days of separate weekend talks with mediators in Burkina Faso.

32.   Helicopters prowled skies and dogs sniffed through fields near the tense Korean border Wednesday on fears that an agent may have successfully slipped across the border into South Korea.

33.   Hours after guards shot and killed a North Korean armed infiltrator, South Korea threatened severe retaliation Tuesday if its communist rival again violates the tense Korean border.

34.   Hours after his arrival, Kok visited the tense border village of Panmunjom where he took a firsthand look at communist North Korea.

35.   Maritime police said Saturday that they were questioning a North Korean soldier found drifting in South Korean waters near the tense border with North Korea.

36.   Maritime police said Saturday that they were questioning a North Korean man found drifting in South Korean waters near the tense border with North Korea.

37.   Machine-gun and rifle fire erupted Wednesday on the tense border between Madeconia and Kosovo, the scene of recent clashes between Macedonian forces and ethnic Albanian guerrillas.

38.   Officials on both sides of the tense border said no incidents were reported overnight Wednesday or Thursday morning.

39.   Officials on both sides of the tense border said no incidents were reported overnight Wednesday or Thursday.

40.   On Tuesday, Pakistan called for talks with India on a mutual reduction of troops along their tense border and offered to restore transport links cut last in December.