tension between the nations

But tensions between the nations exploded in May 1998, when Eritrea moved troops into the Badme region along the border.

Mr. Abe went to Beijing shortly after becoming prime minister last fall, making the first public move to defuse tensions between the nations, traditional rivals.

India has repeatedly blamed Lashkar-e-Taiba for violence, and specifically for an attack on its Parliament building in 2001 that renewed tensions between the nations.

In regard to international affairs, Russia largely stayed on the sidelines during this period but early signs of eventual tensions between the nations were visible during the late 1990s.

Mr. Straw's trip is part of a diplomatic drive to ease tensions between the nations, which still have hundreds of thousands of troops along their borders and are armed with nuclear weapons.

The lacustrine border between Malawi and Mozambique on Lake Nyasa has been the subject of tension between the nations, since the age of resource exploitation on the lake.

In 1961, the political film Bombay Wallah was released, based on the city of Bombay in neighbouring India, in the wake of the growing tension between the nations.

However, when tensions between the nations rise over Costa Rica's rights of navigation in the river, Nicaragua often brings up the topic of Guanacaste as a counterpoint to the argument.

The nation is geopolitically placed within some of the most controversial regional boundaries which share disputes and have many-a-times escalated military tensions between the nations, e.g., that of Kashmir with India and the Durand Line with Afghanistan.

The longstanding tensions between the nations worsened sharply in the aftermath of the bombing on Feb. 14 that killed the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri, in Beirut, and mounted further with the suicide bombing in Tel Aviv on Friday that killed four Israelis.