31.   Tensions soared and Serb officers threatened to shoot down NATO helicopters.

32.   Tensions soared between the neighbors after Indian fighter jets shot down the Pakistani military aircraft Tuesday.

33.   Tensions soared in central Kosovo overnight after two Serb civilians went missing, believed abducted by ethnic Albanian rebels, international peace monitors in the province said Sunday.

34.   Tensions soared on the day after President Petar Stoyanov gave the former Communists, the Socialist Party, another chance to form a government.

35.   Tensions soared Sunday after the Socialists, or former Communists, said they would continue to govern.

36.   Tensions soared, with Serb officers threatening to shoot down U.S. helicopters and U.S. ground troops confronting Serbs who heckled them and stoned their vehicles.

37.   Tensions have soared in Croatia as the U.N. revamps its mission there under pressure from Zagreb.

38.   Tensions have soared in Croatia as the U.N. tries to scale back its mission there, compromising between demands from Croatia to leave and from Serbs to stay.

39.   Tensions have soared in the region over the tunnel, which the Palestinians contend defiles their third-holiest shrine.

40.   Tensions soared two weeks ago after an elderly Serb couple was discovered murdered in their burning home.