A fire broke out last night.

A fire broke out near my house.

As a result, a struggle for power has erupted.

A second conflict, the Second Schleswig War, erupted in 1864.

The outbreak of bubonic plague in 1894 became a concern to the Hong Kong Government.

Beyond the musical adaptation and discussions of the book, a larger debate about racism has erupted in Costa Rica.

It is difficult to imagine them standing with Musharraf should civil conflict erupt.

There is a fire out there, but no one is calling the fire brigade.

Early this week a fire broke out at a labour camp in Doha, Qatar, which destroyed the belongings of 600 workers.

However, when an actual fire broke out, three students who ignored the fire alarms died and many others suffered injuries.

BERLIN When hostilities flared in Gaza last month, it seemed like the same old story was repeating itself.

In 1609, something like civil war broke out between the army and the pasha, who had loyal regiments on his side and the Bedouins.

Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition established Jodensavanne in the 17th century, but it was destroyed in 1832 by a fire.

In Myanmar's main city Yangon, a fire erupted at a tea shop in the Hlaingthayar industrial area early Monday and spread through the surrounding neighbourhood.

Thailand in particular is leading the charge to insure against the vulnerabilities of the contagion that broke out in South East Asia and spread to other parts of the world.

With unemployment rising, income dropping to record low levels, and internal tensions escalating, fighting between supporters of Hamas and Fatah began.

As a first step, the United Nations should be given a standing authority to send a fact finding mission to the area where a conflict has broken out.

Peacekeeping operations involved not only the maintenance of peace but also peacebuilding in countries and regions where outbreaks of violence had occurred.

In the fall of 2001, when fighting broke out between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance, I could not travel and was stranded at a roadside teahouse for several weeks.

Relative calm was restored to Algiers for a couple of years after his arrival, but then the insurgency broke out again with redoubled strength, and the French had to leave the country in 1962.

A fight broke out in a Riyadh mosque between Saudis and Egyptians after a Saudi clergyman cursed Egyptian Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah el Sisi during today's Friday prayers sermon.

On 3 May, in Chicago, a fight broke out when strikebreakers attempted to cross the picket line, and two workers died when police opened fire upon the crowd.

As a result of drought and heat, more than 500 wildfires have raged out of control, smothering Moscow in smoke and threatening several nuclear facilities.

Fighting broke out on 31 October between the Tripoli Brigade and a brigade from Zintan when the Zintanians attempted to enter a hospital and kill a patient they had shot earlier in the day.

He posed a hypothetical situation involving violations of international humanitarian law or human rights law committed by soldiers of a country during an armed conflict surrounding one region's struggle for independence.

Egypt s revolutionaries understood this. When sectarian violence erupted there following the removal of Hosni Mubarak, the revolutionary coalitions adopted the slogan, You won t gloat over this, Mubarak.

In Beslan, camouflaged men representing four ministries fussed uselessly, with no clear leader or goals, losing precious minutes when the violence erupted.

When the territorial dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku Diaoyu islands flared anew last year, Japanese auto exports to China plummeted 80 in just three months.

However, the fighting between the Government forces and the FNL rebels in early June in the Provinces of Bujumbura Rural and Bubanza has led to the displacement of an estimated 23,000 people.

Almost a decade on from a Maoist insurgency which raged from 1996 to 2006, Nepal is still struggling to create an environment where the vast majority of people in the country can access a sustainable livelihood.

Where a conflict has broken out, the United Nations should apply a standard operating procedure of dispatching a fact finding mission, including for the purpose of observing and reporting on the treatment of civilians.

A long dormant territorial dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland over control of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) erupted into a brief war in 1982 when Argentina's military government invaded and occupied the islands. The United Kingdom reacted with military force, and Argentine forces surrendered several months after the initial invasion.

Elsewhere, ethnic violence provoked significant displacement, for instance, of some 300,000 people in and from North Kivu and Ituri in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) when fighting broke out there in late 2004.

There was considerable public anger in Pakistan at the way British Prime Minister David Cameron handled such suspicions, some of which was directed at President Asif Ali Zardari, who decided to proceed with a planned official visit to London despite Cameron s harsh language.

Uribe s victory, and the emerging political consensus that it reflects, was remarkable for its peacefulness, in contrast to the violence that left wing guerrillas unleashed when he won the presidency four years ago.

For example, in the late seventeenth century, when conflict between Korea and Japan erupted over the passage of Japanese fishermen to Ulleungdo, Tottori han (one of Japan s feudal clans) told Japan s central government that Ulleungdo and Dokdo did not fall within Japanese territory.

Since the cold war, more than 33 civil conflicts have erupted or been revived in the developing world, causing more than 5 million deaths and creating almost 17 million refugees and displaced persons, among whom women and girls have been particularly affected because of their status in society and their gender.

While the rival claims date back to the late nineteenth century, the latest flare up which has included widespread anti Japanese demonstrations in China was triggered in September 2012, when Japan s government purchased three of the tiny islets from their private Japanese owner.

BERLIN When hostilities flared in Gaza last month, it seemed like the same old story was repeating itself. The world again witnessed a bloody and senseless surge of violence between Israel and Hamas, in which the main victims were innocent civilians maimed and killed on both sides.

A large number of photos and tweets have come out of the protests, yet explanation as to what spurred them remains to be seen, however a Xinhua report that came out soon after protests began references the recent flare up of the ongoing dispute between the two countries over the Diaoyu islands.