1.   Albania, for example, might suffer as ethnic Albanian refugees flood over the border from Kosovo.

2.   There are two things that could start a serious refugee flood.

3.   But if a settlement did not work, a takeover by activists trying to establish an Islamic state could spark a refugee flood and endanger French investments.

4.   Despite scenes of despair and disorganization in Albania, aid organizations said they were generally well prepared for the refugee flood.

5.   He said Macedonia and Albania could not shoulder the full burden of the refugee flood.

6.   Refugee flood to Macedonia slows to a trickle.

7.   Russia and the Central Asian states fear a refugee flood or spillover violence from U.S. strikes on Afghanistan could further rock the restive region and drain its scarce finances.

8.   Tens of thousands of frightened Afghanis fled intensified fighting toward Tajikistan on Wednesday, and Russian and Tajik troops braced to turn back a refugee flood at the border.

9.   Tens of thousands of refugees flood into Iran after a faction allied with Saddam Hussein seizes control of northern Iraq.

10.   The fighting in eastern Zaire between rebels and government troops has sparked a new refugee flood and renewed calls for the African force in the absence of Western intervention.