81.   Detonations could be heard and Albanian officials claimed there were heavy new attacks on the area, where months of rising tensions and clashes have erupted into escalating violence.

82.   Dozens of ethnic Albanians reportedly have been killed in more than a week of escalating violence and a fierce Serbian police crackdown.

83.   Earlier this month the top U.N. human rights body voted to send the urgent mission to investigate the escalating violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

84.   Escalating violence in the Yugoslavian province of Kosovo will be urgently addressed by the European Union, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday.

85.   Escalating violence provides a grim backdrop to the continuing efforts of shuttling U.S. envoys to arrange talks between the Serbs and Albanians, with no sign of compromise evident.

86.   Escalating violence in Haiti has prompted the Organization of American States to send a new permanent mission to the nation to help quell the disorder.

87.   Escalating violence of recent days has heightened calls from some quarters to abandon the elusive truce, declared a month ago.

88.   Faced with escalating violence in Kosovo, two top NATO officials warned both sides in the separatist province Wednesday against launching more attacks.

89.   Following weeks of uncertainty and delay because of escalating violence, the United Nations on Friday began registering voters for an August independence ballot.

90.   For many, the escalating violence has become intensely personal.