NAIROBI - A Kenyan Finance Ministry official testified at the Goldenberg corruption trial that 5.8 billion shillings -- $100 million at today's exchange rate -- had been improperly withdrawn from the ministry's account in 1993 without his knowledge.
HARARE - An Air Zimbabwe plane clipped a tree branch and jammed its nose wheel when it tried to land at an airport in the country's largest game park on Tuesday night.
MAPUTO - A senior South African foreign affairs official has been arrested in Mozambique on suspicion of involvement in gun-running. Robert McBride, director of the Middle East desk at the South African foreign ministry, was arrested in Ressano Garcia on Monday.
WASHINGTON - Former White House aide Kathleen Willey, who was allegedly fondled by President Bill Clinton in 1993, answered questions before a grand jury investigating the sex scandal.
PRISTINA, Serbia - Western mediators who publicly blame Serbia for the violence in Kosovo are pressing Albanian leaders to renounce their claims to independence.
ROME - The U.N. food agency confirmed earlier forecasts that North Korea's grain stocks would be almost gone by early May, leaving the famine-struck nation entirely dependent on food imports until the harvest.
BELFAST - Police charged two men with murder in a bar buddies shooting which shocked Northern Ireland last week because the victims -- one Catholic and one Protestant -- seemed by their friendship to have surmounted the province's sectarian antagonisms.
TOKYO - Japan's politically contentious trade surplus, as measured by the current account, soared 212.8 percent in January from the same month last year to 476.2 billion yen.
FREETOWN - Sierra Leone's elected president, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, is back in power after an army coup but he faces an uphill struggle if he is to rebuild his shattered country.
ATLANTA - Materials used in biological weapons are easily obtained and could be used to unleash pandemics of Ebola, anthrax and smallpox.
UNITED NATIONS - The Security Council was briefed on Kosovo but failed to issue a statement, mainly because China insisted it was strictly an internal Yugoslav affair.
LONDON - Germany has called on Britain to prosecute Roisin McAliskey in connection with an Irish Republican Army bomb attack on a British Army base in Osnabrueck in 1996.
EL BILLAR, Colombia - Colombia's army said it believed more than 100 Marxist rebels were killed in fighting last week in the south that also killed at least 58 soldiers.
LOS ANGELES - Veteran actor Lloyd Bridges, who starred in the pioneering television series "Sea Hunt" and was the father of actors Beau and Jeff Bridges, died at age 85.
BAGHDAD - The new U.N. commissioner responsible for the inspection of Iraq's eight presidential sites arrived in Iraq.
DUBAI - Saudi Arabia said King Fahd, who was admitted to hospital earlier this week for tests on a gall bladder infection, did not need surgery and his condition was reassuring.
UNITED NATIONS - Envoys from the five permanent members of the Security Council met Secretary--General Kofi Annan to express support for U.N. efforts to revive negotiations aimed at ending the division of Cyprus.
