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The growing stridency of the front, which supports Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement, and bridles at Jordan's 16-year-old peace treaty with Israel, has heightened tension with the Hashemites.

The BBC's David Stern says the attack on the statue has heightened tension in Kiev.

The civil war has heightened tension in Lebanon and shaken the nation's fragile, multi-sectarian governing structure.

The clash has heightened tensions between Chad and Sudan, threatening to pull the two neighbors deeper into each other's vexing problems.

Although Spain has regularly challenged Britain's 300-year-old control of Gibraltar, the territory's decision to build the reef has heightened tensions considerably.

The crackdown has heightened tensions between the United States and Cuba, and in the atmosphere of crisis, some Cubans are trying to leave the island by any means possible.

The growing presence in northwestern Pakistan of Al Qaeda and the Taliban, which are overwhelmingly Sunni, has heightened tensions with the minority Shiites.

BEIRUT — As Syria's yearlong conflict has heightened tensions in neighboring Lebanon between groups loyal or hostile to the Syrian regime, discord and factional infighting in Lebanon's Palestinian refugee camps have added to the country's instability.

But the project has been caught up in political feuding over the past year, as a new South Korean government has taken a harder line against the North, and the North has heightened tensions with Seoul.

Ridley Scott, the director of "Gladiator," the No. 1 movie at the box office, has apologized for a trade publication advertisement that has heightened tensions in a three-week-old actors' strike.

The killing of Salford's most prominent felon has heightened tensions on streets infamous for its criminal firms – at least 19 are currently operating in a city of 240,000 people.