a 1993 U.N. Security Council embargo.
MONROVIA - Police broke into the offices of Liberia`s Inquirer daily and arrested managing editor Philip Wesseh over an article criticising the police.
HONG KONG - Fundamental questions about lifting the debt burden on the world`s poorest nations have been left hanging over the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) annual meetings as it ended in Hong Kong. European leaders must give priority to the need for structural economic reform to create jobs and not see this as completely divorced from their single currency plan, IMF managing director Michel Camdessus said. Asia`s tiger economies, whose recent savaging became the cautionary tale of the annual meetings, predict they will emerge the better for the pain.
SANTA CLARA - Intel Corp., the world`s largest computer chip maker, said the Federal Trade Commission has begun a broad investigation into alleged unfair business practices.
JAKARTA - Indonesia`s President Suharto ordered a full mobilisation of government officials to fight the fire and smog disaster threatening Southeast Asia.
NEW DELHI - An Indian court framed bribery charges against former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao to start trial in a vote-buying case, court officials said.
PHNOM PENH - Cambodian government forces have re-taken territory in the west from renegade Khmer Rouge guerrillas loyal to deposed premier Prince Norodom Ranariddh.
NEW DELHI - At least 26 teenagers were feared drowned in northern India when an overcrowded boat capsized in a river.
BEIJING - U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said strong Sino-U.S. ties were crucial to world stability, but he singled out human rights as an issue on which the two countries could not agree.
SYDNEY - Catholic priests in Australia should not be left alone with children and glass confessionals should be installed in churches to prevent paedophile scandals, according to a draft code of conduct for priests.
BELGRADE - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic`s leftist alliance won the Serbian parliamentary elections on Sunday but failed to secure a majority in the assembly, complete but unofficial results show.
JERUSALEM- Israelis and Palestinians, locked in a hazardous cycle of Jewish settlements and Arab suicide bombings, are vowing more of the same.
NEW YORK - The United States has warned Croatia that if it does not move quickly to bring Bosnian Croat war criminals to prosecution, the international community will act soon to arrest them, said U.S. officials.
TURKEY - Some 15,000 Turkish soldiers backed by tanks and armoured vehicles have entered northern Iraq, a military official said after reports of fighting between Turkish troops and separatist Kurdish rebels.
SINGAPORE - Indonesia is stepping up efforts to combat forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan causing choking smog over much of Southeast Asia. World health bodies have warned of long-term health risks. Indonesia has reported two deaths.
UNITED NATIONS- German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, breaking a virtual silence in the U.N. General Assembly on massacres in Algeria, asked how long the international community could look away.
WARSAW - Solidarity and a centrist party rooted in the 1980s struggle for democracy moved closer to forming a government after their first coalition talks but negotiations are expected to be tough.
