MONROVIA - President Taylor reshuffled Liberia`s government, replacing former warlord Roosevelt Johnson as rural development minister and naming him ambassador to India.
DAKAR, Senegal - U.S. President Bill Clinton`s Africa tour is winding down in Senegal where he will promote an African peacekeeping force and make an emotional visit to a place where slaves were shipped to America.
UNITED NATIONS - China abstained when the Security Council voted 14-0 to impose an arms embargo on Yugoslavia to force a peaceful settlement in troubled Kosovo province.
MOSCOW - Boris Yeltsin`s 35-year-old nominee for prime minister faces a first test when parliament considers a challenge to the president`s choice.
MADRID - Bombs exploded at the homes of four local ruling-party politicians in Spain`s Basque country in attacks blamed on the Basque separatist guerrilla group ETA.
NEW DELHI - A massive avalanche hit an army camp in northern India, killing at least 19 soldiers.
JERUSALEM - Israel hopes international pressure on Syria will set the stage for an Israeli troop withdrawal from south Lebanon.
BRASILIA - Rain fell in various areas of Brazil`s northern Amazon ravaged by huge savanna and forest fires, just hours after two Indian shamans performed an ancient ritual to bring on the storm clouds.
KIEV - Ukraine`s President Leonid Kuchma says that resurgent communists have not won enough seats in elections to block free market reforms.
JONESBORO, Ark. - Thousands of people held an emotional memorial service in Jonesboro, Arkansas, in honour of the four girls and a teacher gunned down in a schoolyard ambush.
WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives, defying a potential White House veto, voted to take money from Democratic-backed domestic programs to pay for disaster relief and military operations in Bosnia and Iraq.
SISAKET, Thailand - The remnants of Cambodia`s splintering Khmer Rouge guerrilla group have dug in near the Thai border and are stopping thousands of civilians from fleeing into Thailand.
NEW YORK - Lemrick Nelson Jr., convicted of civil rights violations in the killing of a Hasidic scholar during race riots in 1991, was sentenced to almost 20 years in prison.
ANKARA - Left-wing Turkish prisoners freed one of around 50 guards they have been holding hostage as part of a protest over jail transfers.
WASHINGTON - A former Miss America said she had consensual sex with Bill Clinton 15 years ago when he was Arkansas governor and decided to reveal it now to stop Clinton`s enemies from saying he forced the encounter.
LOS ANGELES - A California hospital worker who confessed to killing up to 50 terminally ill patients had the suspension of his license continued by an administrative judge after a prosecutor said the admission violated public trust in health care.
WASHINGTON - A senior U.S. general warned that Colombia`s armed forces were incapable of defeating left-wing guerrillas and drug traffickers who have gained control over much of the Colombian countryside.
MARJAYOUN, Lebanon - Six Lebanese constuction workers were killed in the bloodiest single attack against civilians in south Lebanon and a seventh was severely wounded when a roadside bomb planted by unknown assailants exploded.
JERUSALEM - Israel`s inner security cabinet adopted United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 calling for Israel to withdraw its troops from south Lebanon.
