MADRID - Nine crew were missing after a Spanish fishing boat sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco.
FREETOWN - The United Nations said it had successfully delivered the first food aid by road to two major towns in the interior of Sierra Leone, cut off from the rest of the country by recent fighting.
PRISTINA, Serbia - Western powers are cranking up pressure on Serbia and restless Albanians in Kosovo to open talks by Thursday, when tough new sanctions against Belgrade come into force if it fails to make headway.
UNITED NATIONS - The General Assembly issued a new condemnation of Israel's failure to stop building on occupied territory and again called for a conference of parties to a Geneva convention barring such settlements.
WASHINGTON - President Bill Clinton's standing with the public remained strong despite former White House aide Kathleen Willey's televised allegations that Clinton groped her and later lied about it under oath.
TEL AVIV - British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook heads for Syria on Wednesday to press for movement in the Middle East peace process, after a damaging row with Israel which may have helped sabotage his mission.
KIGALI - The Rwandan army has killed more than 280 Hutu insurgents in battles in Gitarama province over the past three weeks.
GENEVA - Rivals South and North Korea trudged through tortuous peace negotiations in Geneva amid doubts over the immediate future of the talks.
MOSCOW - President Boris Yeltsin was expected to take a fourth day off work on Wednesday for an illness which Russian media said had diplomatic overtones.
NEW DELHI - India's incoming Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party government clinched a key policy agreement with disparate allies, saying it would run the country on the basis of consensus.
ANKARA - Turkey's appeals court ruled that former prime minister Tansu Ciller cannot be prosecuted on the basis of an allegation that she misused a government slush fund.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate formally opened debate on expansion of NATO to include Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, as critics charged that it will cost too much and weaken the Western alliance.
UNITED NATIONS - Five people were killed and four were injured when a U.N. helicopter carrying human rights workers crashed in a mountainous area of Guatemala.
LIMA - Rescuers began hauling bodies from vehicles underwater after more than 30 people drowned when a swollen river destroyed a road bridge in northern Peru.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers are expected to approve later this week new uses of three drugs to treat various types of cancer.
GABORONE - Two kings and five presidents from the member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) were gathering in Gaborone to bid farewell to Botswana President Sir Ketumile Masire.
MOGADISHU - Somali gunmen shot dead a well-known businessman and two other people in an ambush involving estranged groups within the clan of Hussein Mohamed Aideed.
PARIS - More than 3,700 women have been killed in Algerian attacks, including massacres of villagers, in the past six years. 500 others had been kidnapped and another 300 women had been raped by rebels in attacks on villages.
