51.   Calling the demonstration unauthorized and illegal, a police commander said the crackdown was to ensure public order and prevent straining relations between the neighboring Southeast Asian nations.

52.   Castro said his country would offer the services of its doctors to neighboring nations hit hard by Hurricane George.

53.   Concerns about the impact on Japanese corporate earnings from the currency and economic crisis in neighboring nations weighed on share prices, traders said.

54.   Days of violence in Kosovo have sparked fears of a broader conflict that could spill into neighboring Balkan nations.

55.   Despite knowing that fighting in Afghanistan threatens their own security, neighboring nations are still interfering in and exacerbating the conflict, the U.N. chief said in a report.

56.   Finance Minister Shah Mohammed Kibria asked envoys of neighboring nations and Islamic countries to urge their governments to give immediate help.

57.   Fish and shrimp exporters, for example, may be harmed by the ban imposed by neighboring Caribbean nations on seafood imports from Guyana.

58.   Fighting has drawn in several neighboring nations, and rebels have gained control of large swaths of eastern Congo.

59.   For nearly a decade, the European Union has kept its doors tightly shut, ignoring pleas from neighboring nations for admission to the exclusive club.

60.   Freeways also connect Brussels to major cities in neighboring nations.