BUJUMBURA - Burundi`s army said that rebels killed 25 civilians and wounded 39 others in two attacks in the troubled northern province of Bubanza.
BANGUI - Fourteen people died in the Central African Republic after a meal of pygmy goat meat which some villagers say was laced with human flesh, state radio reported.
SAO PAULO - U.S. President Bill Clinton was set to end a two-day visit to Brazil on Wednesday with a major speech in which he is expected ask business leaders to support his case for a Pan American free trade block.
COLOMBO - A massive truck bomb shattered Colombo`s business district killing several people and guerrillas fought street battles with the Sri Lankan army. Police and hospitals said 11 people had died in the blast and the fighting. The government blamed Tamil Tiger separatist guerrillas for the blast, but a spokesman for the group in London quickly denied involvement.
SEOUL - South Korea`s ruling party said it planned to file a complaint with state prosecutors against opposition leader Kim Dae-jung whom they accuse of amassing millions of dollars in "slush funds".
ANKARA - Turkey tried to play down a tense dispute with traditional rival Greece about air force flights over the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - NASA`s controversial nuclear-powered Cassini mission lifted off on a 2.2 billion mile (3.5 billion km), seven-year voyage to the ringed planet Saturn.
SANTIAGO - An earthquake killed at least seven people and injured 19 others in Chile as the strong tremor collapsed houses and walls in the north of the country.
ADELAIDE - Australian Frank Gilford said he had waived his right to demand the beheading of a British nurse accused of murdering his sister in Saudi Arabia in exchange for A$1.7 million (US$1.24 million).
SANTA CLARA, Cuba - Thousands of Cubans stood in silent tribute to welcome the remains of Ernesto "Che" Guevara to Santa Clara, the city where the legendary leftist guerrilla will finally be laid to rest.
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released $57 million in Palestinian funds frozen by Israel and urged Yasser Arafat to take further steps against "terrorism".
WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno ordered an expanded Justice Department investigation into President Bill Clinton`s fund-raising telephone calls from the White House before the 1996 election.
STANFORD, Calif - Myron Scholes, who shared the 1997 Alfred Nobel memorial prize in Economics said he and his colleague Fischer Black first began studying options pricing models simply as "a curiosity".
GAZA - A settler-rabbi carried a plea for peace from an Israeli chief rabbi to Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, spiritual leader of the Islamic group Hamas whose suicide bombers have killed scores of Israelis.
JERUSALEM - A Jewish gunman who killed a Palestinian in a 1982 shooting spree at a Moslem shrine in Jerusalem will be freed from prison within weeks.
CAIRO - An Egyptian military court sentenced to death three Moslem militants, two of them in their absence, for plotting to kill government officials.
Autor: EDITED BY ZUZANA VILIKOVSKÁ
