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The attacks follow several weeks of heightened rhetorical animosity between Riyadh and Tehran.

The closings appeared to confirm the effect of two weeks of heightened violence in Iraq.

No contract has been signed, the officials said, and the talks have been suspended in recent weeks of heightened tensions as the March 18 Taiwan presidential elections approach.

Outcry over the recent shooting follows weeks of heightened national scrutiny of police shootings in the wake of the killing of unarmed Missouri teen Michael Brown.

North Korea, in a sign of a possible end to weeks of heightened hostility on the Korean peninsula, offered the United States and South Korea a list of conditions on Thursday for talks, including the lifting of U.N. sanctions.

JERUSALEM, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Israeli security forces said they shot dead two Palestinian assailants on Saturday in separate incidents in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, as 12 weeks of heightened violence showed no sign of abating.

GAZA — After a week of heightened tensions along the Gaza-Israel border, Hamas on Friday renewed its commitment to a cease-fire with Israel in an apparent effort to head off further escalation.

The alarm came as Europe entered the New Year under a state of heightened alert, seven weeks after Islamist militants killed 130 people in shootings and suicide blasts across Paris.

In cross-tabulations of dose and timing, the data were dichotomized at 13 weeks gestational age because the first trimester represents a period of heightened susceptibility for the developing fetal reproductive system (Sadler 2004).

It is but one sign of heightened official vigilance.

Bunting everywhere but few indications of heightened spirits.