This helped normalize the previously tense relations between the two countries.

Indeed, local problems are likely to exacerbate regional tensioins.

Eventually, it heightened tensions within the euro zone.

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

In Europe, a similar debate about the political accountability of European central banks has been simmering since before the ECB was even established. Tensions between advocates of different policy solutions will lead to a demand for a greater political say.

After all, those tensions were largely the result of colonial divide and rule policies.

Tensions between advocates of different policy solutions will lead to a demand for a greater political say.

Sensing ambivalence in the US Pakistan relationship, Moscow has also warmed to Pakistan, much to India's chagrin.

Accordingly, calls for German leadership will disappear and its strained public finances will suppress requests for financial transfers.

The only question is whether political tensions could bring the music screeching to a halt. There is no doubt that, whatever India s legitimate differences with China s Communist regime, cooperation is in the best interests of both peoples.

Hostility on the football pitch merely reflects the existing tense relations between the two countries, which carry the weight of a painful history.

Strained political relations among most of Asia s sub regions make a region wide security structure or more effective resource cooperation difficult to achieve.

The only question is whether political tensions could bring the music screeching to a halt.

Across Latin America, if poverty and violence are not ameliorated, tensions are bound to grow.

These tensions eventually culminated in the American Revolution, boiling over with the outbreak of the War of American Independence in 1775.

Such initiatives provide rare opportunities for dialogue and collaboration between rival communities. The key is to anticipate the need for action before tensions escalate to the point of no return.

Such mass migration will severely hurt already strained social relations in some countries and lead to unpredictable consequences.

Is there any actual tension between English speakers and French speakers in Cameroon or is it others who are making too big a deal out of this issue?

Some of the greatest tensions in the world say India and Pakistan, or North and South Korea should be defused as part of region wide strengthening.

If the international community fails the challenge, conflicts and tensions that have already cost hundreds of thousands of lives will continue and worsen.

Debates rage over the bilateral trade balance and revaluation of the renminbi, the status of Taiwan and Tibet, human rights violations, and intellectual property theft.

China s role in restraining North Korea s nuclear ambitions and its tense relations with Japan are an additional burden on ties.

BRUSSELS It is an old debate, but tensions within the euro area have revived it can a monetary union survive without some form of fiscal federalism?

And as she looked at his easy, strong, considerate, careful and ultra cautious movements, the mother lost her fears and looked at them with a smile of approval.

It is not clear if deflation can be beaten with monetary policy excessive fiscal stimulus and deferred austerity may make the debt unsustainable and the structural reform components of Abenomics are vague. Moreover, tensions with China over territorial claims in the East China Sea may adversely affect trade and foreign direct investment.

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

Similarly, there were intense debates within the EU, culminating with the adoption of the ECB's Policy Position on Exchange Rate Issues Relating to the Acceding Countries.

Our ability to prevent water wars will depend on our collective capacity to anticipate tensions, and to find the technical and institutional solutions to manage emerging conflicts.

Of course, Kenya had lived through tense electoral periods before, and few people who know Africa were blind to the many difficulties the country continued to face.

Currently, Turkey's relations with both the EU and the United States are quite tense, and this is connected, first and foremost, with the domestic policies being pursued by Erdoğan himself.

What is now needed most of all is a clear message that dialogue, not violence, is the way forward in these very tense times.

That crisis, and others before and since, showed that tensions in the Middle East rarely dissolve with the passage of time.

Intense negotiations with Libya, particularly by Europe, had been going on for more than a year, but were not successful, because Libya s ruler, Colonel Khadafi, did not trust his interlocutors.

Disputes between the United States and Europe are nothing new, as past tensions over Korea, Suez, and Vietnam demonstrate.

Religious tensions in the Middle Belt pre date Boko Haram and began most recently in the mid 1990s.

The result of all this tension is that Latin America is seeing its biggest arms race for decades, a sad trend when the region s worst problems are poverty, inequality, and the marginalization of indigenous people.

TOKYO The current tensions between China and Japan have revived talk about how far Japan has fallen since its glory years of the 1980 s.

Despite the extensive physical damage and loss of life inflicted on the country by some of Ben Ali s die hard supporters, the tense and dangerous few days that followed the dictator s fall did not change the course of the revolution.

Only years after the war began did the administration order the specially armored vehicles that would have saved the lives of many killed by roadside bombs. Not wanting to reintroduce a draft, and finding it difficult to recruit for an unpopular war, troops have been forced into two, three, or four stress filled deployments.

Exasperated by Kim s refusal to ease international tensions, Chinese officials have made clear their refusal to protect and subsidize North Korea s elite if it continues to push the US toward confrontation.

Not wanting to reintroduce a draft, and finding it difficult to recruit for an unpopular war, troops have been forced into two, three, or four stress filled deployments.

Despite the extensive physical damage and loss of life inflicted on the country by some of Ben Ali s die hard supporters, the tense and dangerous few days that followed the dictator s fall did not change the course of the revolution.

Even after the tensions had become commonplace, the severity of a 2010 massacre in the town of Dogo Nahawa turned Ibanga and other local women into vocal activists.

For more than 40 years, the strained relationship between the kingdom of Morocco and the people living in West Sahara have sustained a simmering conflict over the region's governance.

The US must leave Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby saving 150 billion per year for other purposes and reducing the tensions caused by military occupation.