1.   Although Syria has long promoted a certain degree of sectarian tension in Lebanon, to control it better, there are signs that the Damascus government is concerned.

2.   As sectarian tensions followed the express train carnage, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee appealed for calm and stressed that national security would be maintained at all costs.

3.   If the talks do fail, it could provoke sectarian tensions, and violence, in the Protestant Orange Order parade season, which accelerates in July.

4.   That generation forgets the kidnappings, the politicking of the army and the sectarian tensions.

5.   The sectarian tensions cannot, however, be ignored.

6.   This sectarian tension was absent in recent Arab generational changes in Jordan and Morocco.

7.   Police charged a man Wednesday with the Irish Republican Army killing of two Protestant policemen that stirred sectarian tensions and threatened to stymie peace talks.

8.   Palestinians say solution to sectarian tensions at hand.

9.   Arsonists damaged two unoccupied Catholic churches in predominantly Protestant parts of Northern Ireland early Sunday, the latest expression of rising sectarian tensions in this divided society.

10.   But first Northern Ireland must get through its worst week of sectarian tensions, when each July the Protestant Orange Order stages hundreds of marches across the province.