61.   Turkey has carried out several cross-border military incursions in northern Iraq for attacks on secessionist Kurdish groups.

62.   Turkey on Wednesday reopened the border to some journalists covering the military incursion in northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels.

63.   While closely watching North Korean military incursions into their border buffer zone, South Korea has launched diplomatic efforts to defuse the tension.

64.   German has been the harshest critic of the military incursion into northern Iraq, suspending shipments of military to Ankara in response to the operation.

65.   In another development, Turkey said Monday that it had ended a military incursion into northern Iraq to fight rebel Turkish Kurds based in the area.

66.   Iraq on Thursday accused Iran of using Kurdish fighting to try to gain a foothold in northern Iraq and warned it would pay dearly for any military incursion.

67.   Islamist Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan said Wednesday that Turkey would continue with military incursions into northern Iraq to hunt down rebel Kurds whenever necessary.

68.   Israeli helicopters raided the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun early Saturday, following a major military incursion by Israeli troops, Palestinian security sources said.

69.   It provoked further Israeli military incursions on the West Bank where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is under siege.

70.   A Palestinian man was killed during an Israeli military incursion into the Palestinian town of Rafah, on the border with Egypt, Palestinian security sources said early Saturday.