51.   The incident followed attacks earlier in the week by ethnic Albanian rebels that killed three soldiers and prompted Macedonia to close its border with Kosovo.

52.   The incident followed four days of tensions that began when six rowdy prisoners were thrown into segregation cells.

53.   The incident followed the reported kidnapping on Wednesday of a Serbian police chief.

54.   The incident follows a week of attacks by Palestinian militants inside Israel.

55.   The incident follows the death of a Philippine national last week who was killed when a grenade carried by a disgruntled student exploded, according to the Philippine embassy.

56.   The incidents follow a series of recent stabbing attacks in Jerusalem against Jews and Arabs.

57.   The incidents followed a raid this month in which British members of the NATO force arrested one Serb war crimes suspect and killed another in northwestern Bosnia.

58.   The incidents followed a week of increasing unrest in the southern African country.

59.   The latest incident follows three other false bomb alerts reported earlier this week in the port city of Rotterdam.

60.   The incident followed a series of plane crashes in Taiwan.