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Analysts agreed that NATO is increasingly provoking the Serbs by helping Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic wrest power from her predecessor, Radovan Karadzic, who remains the Serbs' de facto leader.
The WSJ has given some good coverage lately to the upcoming global warming meetings and to the political debates they are provoking, and today's "Outlook" column by Alan Murray takes the issue seriously, saying that in the next century the Earth's average temperature probably will rise by two to six degrees.
I think, she said finally, you are being deliberately provoking.
The BJP’s role in provoking the 1992 demolition by Hindus of a mosque in Ayodhya, said to have been built on ground sacred to them, and the widespread racial violence which ensued caused PM Rao to ban the BJP.
In a letter released to the press, Hussein warned Netanyahu that he was provoking the Palestinians to violence and had exhausted Hussein's good will.