11.  Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered a military state of emergency along the northern border, a sign that Israel was preparing for extended fighting.

12.  He was also taken by the military state of affairs in the conflict zones of the Middle East in Jordan, Lebanon and Israel.

13.  Chinese exports to Myanmar include textiles, chemicals, machinery and medicine while it buys timber, jade and livestock products from the military state.

14.  Macedonia raised its military state of alert Wednesday along its western border with troubled Albania, the defence ministry said.

15.  Macedonia meanwhile raised a military state of alert along its border with Albania, its defence ministry announced.

16.  Macedonia raised its military state of alert Wednesday along its western border with troubled Albania, the ministry of defense said.

17.  The military state of alert goes from blue, green, orange up to red.