MOSCOW - New worries about President Boris Yeltsin`s health threatened to overshadow a confidence-boosting six percent cut in interest rates by the central bank.
SEOUL - Stalinist North Korea has announced a "wartime mobilisation" as famine and disease exact an appalling toll in the country.
ANKARA - Turkish security forces have killed 30 Kurdish rebels for the loss of two soldiers in clashes in the southeast of the country.
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - At least 30 people were feared killed in a landslide in part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan.
COLOMBO - Sri Lankan air force jets bombed two Tamil Tiger rebel camps close to where government troops are trying to take a strategic town.
PARIS - Guerrillas killed eight civilians in Algeria and security forces killed 10 guerrillas since Tuesday.
JERUSALEM - A bomb exploded in Arab East Jerusalem wounding four Arabs.
SURABAYA, Indonesia - Indonesian students in Surabaya called off demonstrations after four were injured in a clash with police the previous day, but vowed to resume their protests next week.
HAVANA - Manuel "Red Beard" Pineiro Losada, a legendary figure in the Cuban intelligence services who once directed efforts to "export revolution" to the rest of Latin America, was buried on Thursday.
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Dodgers, one of baseball`s last family-owned teams, have signed an agreement to sell the team to Rupert Murdoch`s Fox group.
EDINBURGH - European Union foreign ministers gathered for a two-day meeting that will tackle the Kosovo crisis and a potential row over the divided island of Cyprus.
JERUSALEM - Israeli security forces braced for further West Bank violence after two days of Palestinian rage over the killings of three Arab workers by Israeli troops.
SEOUL - South Korean President Kim Dae-jung will grant amnesty to 5.5 million people on Friday, the largest ever in the nation`s history.
