Several member states refused to support Sudan because of tensions over Darfur (see also below).

SEOUL Once again, tension is rising across Asia over North Korea s missile program.

One can well understand a Turkish policy of trying to defuse tensions with Iran over that country s nuclear program.

Tensions mounted.

Moreover, tensions with China over territorial claims in the East China Sea may adversely affect trade and foreign direct investment.

Tensions are rising over currencies as well.

Since tensions have existed between both of these ancestral tribes.

By signaling that the present China North Korea border may not be final, Beijing has raised the specter of potential tensions over frontiers in the future.

Trade tensions continue to mount.

Tensions will arise from such interactions.

The Council is concerned at the continuing tensions in the Ituri district and wonders about the outside support received by the militias responsible for the situation.

Thus, he may be reluctant to proceed with a dialogue with the Iraqi Kurds at a time when tensions with the military are running high over the influence of Islamists in Turkish politics.

The United Nations is torn apart by internal tensions.

These economic hardships are deepened by social tension.

Tensions in financial markets have hit new highs.

At that point, tensions with Cambodia became inevitable.

Iranian Turkish tensions reflect three larger realities.

However, Iraq states that there is insufficient evidence regarding ongoing stresses and how these may affect the interpretation of the M A data .

Rising tensions within the EU have been the inevitable result.

These strains express themselves on policy issues.

But that measure, instead of restoring financial calm, led to an escalation of expectations regarding what the state could and should do, and exacerbated social tensions.

BERLIN Despite continuing tensions over Russia s invasion of Georgia this August, the European Union will reopen talks with Russia on a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA).

Instead, tensions are now likely to continue to fester.

Ethnic tensions are also running high in the western state of Rakhine.

Indeed, it is already creating tensions.

As social tensions increase, political turmoil will follow.

At the same time, political tensions between socialists and non socialists escalated.

A split within the Jumbesh organization has increased factional tensions.

Finally, long simmering tensions in the Middle East between Israel and the US on one side and Iran on the other on the issue of nuclear proliferation could reach a boil by 2013.

So tensions spill over into the streets and take the form of riots and protests.

But that does not mean that tensions with Russia will automatically disappear.

Social tensions bubbling beneath the surface could well add fuel to the crisis of confidence.

Anti Japanese riots across China have heightened tensions in Asia.

Between 1988 and 1989, racial tensions between Arabs and blacks escalated.

There were no casualties, but the attack aggravated and deepened ethnic tensions.

Oskar decides to live apart from Maria and her son Kurt after mounting tensions.

One can well understand a Turkish policy of trying to defuse tensions with Iran over that country s nuclear program. But the joint Iranian Brazilian Turkish initiative goes beyond such a policy.

Then there are rising tensions over plans by the United States to based a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, as well as the growing likelihood that further NATO enlargement will include Georgia, the increasingly prosperous neighbor with which Russia has fractious relations.

It could claim that closure demonstrates its commitment to reducing regional nuclear tensions, while sending a message about the wisdom of building reactors in the world s most volatile region.

The uprising in Tibet, and the government s response, have highlighted ethnic tensions within China that the Chinese government is having difficulty managing.

But there is also a clear view that Arab Persian, Sunni Shia, or more straightforward regional power anxieties would make a nuclear arms race inevitable.

Furthermore, trade tensions could weaken political ties.

Territorial disputes have exacerbated these tensions significantly.

Moreover, there has been an alarming increase in regional tensions.

As a result, the uncertainty surrounding Obasanjo s plans is increasing sectional tensions.