"We will not sacrifice our sons," said Ceslovas Stankevicius, deputy chairman of the Lithuanian Parliament, defiant in the latest standoff over Lithuania's contested sovereignty.

The latest standoff seems to stem from the tribunal's intention to investigate killings by Tutsi rebels that brought the massacres, orchestrated by Hutu militants, to an end.

But food prices have climbed more than 20 percent since Iraq's latest standoff with the Security Council began July 5.

In the latest standoff, the residents of Champakoila saw the first bulldozers on the horizon.

And, ending the latest standoff between them, Mr. Netanyahu later accepted his comments as an apology.

"The claim that they achieved what they wanted in the latest standoff is incorrect," he said.

He'd begun by thinking of reasonable openings for this latest standoff between Sera and himself and ended, as the clock chimed the next hour, in getting angry all over again.

Tension shot through the crowd as Fidel Castro confronted his latest international standoff.

The latest standoff comes after politicians in Germany, France and Britain all lobbied to preserve jobs in their countries.