NAIROBI - Three British army servicemen have been evacuated to hospital in Nairobi after being injured in a helicopter crash in central Kenya.
JAKARTA - Indonesian police clashed with students protesting against President Suharto's handling of the country's economic crisis as officials said an IMF team was coming to Jakarta for weekend talks on reforms.
WASHINGTON - Russia and the United States ended two days of high-level talks on a range of issues but apparently failed to settle their differences over Russian deals with Iran.
SEOUL - Up to three million people have died over the past two years in famine-struck North Korea, a Korean Buddhist group said after conducting a detailed survey of food refugees.
Another three million may die this year alone if urgent measures are not taken.
PRISTINA, Serbia - A Serbian delegation was heading for Kosovo for talks with ethnic Albanians aimed at stemming an eruption of violence in the simmering province.
LONDON - The European Union launches the historic process of expansion into Central and Eastern Europe on Thursday by holding a summit with the candidate states.
NEW YORK - Industrial polluters in New York state legally dumped nearly one-third of a pound of cancer-causing chemicals for every resident in the state in 1995, the Sierra Club said. They named the Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester plant as the state's "top cancer polluter" in 1995, but said the company had reduced its dichloromethane pollution.
