HEBRON, West Bank - Israeli troops conducted widespread searches of West Bank refugee camps overnight, arresting six Palestinians suspected of "violent actions".
ARUSHA, Tanzania - A Canadian general who commanded U.N. peacekeepers in Rwanda finally took the witness stand in the trial of a former mayor accused of participating in the tiny African country's 1994 genocide.
DZHIKHASHKARI, Georgia - Gunmen who freed another U.N. hostage early want more formal talks between the government and supporters of late president Zviad Gamsakhurdia before they release their remaining captives.
KUCHING, Malaysia - New fires have broken out in Indonesia and Malaysia, creating a resurgence of smog in parts of Borneo island, but a full-scale regional crisis like last year's is not imminent.
AUCKLAND - Workers trickled back into the central business district of New Zealand's biggest city despite a chronic power shortage. The city centre has been working on 10 percent power since Friday because of the failure of four main cables.
POTOSI, Missouri - Reginald Powell, 29, was executed for killing two brothers in 1986 in an argument over a beer. He died by lethal injection at the Potosi Correctional Center after Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan turned down his clemency appeal on Tuesday.
UNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan hailed his deal on weapons inspections with Iraq, but the United States warned there were still questions and "ambiguities" to be cleared up. Annan, who briefed the 15-member council at U.N. headquarters on the deal he struck with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to avert an armed conflict over suspected chemical and biological weapons, said he was confident the agreement would have "unanimous Security Council support".
WASHINGTON - The chief prosecutor in the White House sex scandal targeted alleged White House mud-slingers, and President Bill Clinton's camp shot back by accusing Kenneth Starr of abusing his power.
JAKARTA - Indonesian troops were patrolling two towns on Sumatra after a series of riots against rising prices, the first to hit the western island.
WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials said they were taking very seriously purported Islamic religious edicts advocating attacks on U.S. civilians and allied interests worldwide.
PARIS - France's National Assembly voted unanimously to ratify a global treaty banning nuclear weapons tests. France carried out a series of controversial nuclear tests in the South Pacific between September 1995 and January 1996, triggering outrage world-wide.
UNITED NATIONS - The Security Council expressed regret over the slow pace at which a peace accord was being implemented in Tajikistan and called on the parties to intensify their efforts.
TAIPEI - China signalled that it could accept Taiwan's cautious terms for ending a 31-month-old impasse in semi-official talks, but made clear that full-blown political negotiations remained its goal.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Queen Elizabeth II's sister, Princess Margaret, was treated at a private clinic in Barbados for a mild stroke and later went to a hospital on the southeastern Caribbean island.
