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DAR ES SALAAM - The UN refugee agency rejected accusations that a refugee camp in northwest Tanzania was being used for military training by Hutu rebels from Rwanda.
BELFAST - John Taylor, deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, said an agreement was in sight in Northern Ireland peace talks that continued through a midnight deadline, but it could take until early in the morning.
LONDON - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, the most wanted war crimes suspect of the Bosnian war, is seeking terms for surrender to international justice.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Tornadoes ripped a deadly path through the southeastern United States, killing at least 42 people and hitting some areas with the force of a bomb blast.
UNITED NATIONS - Iraq is still failing to provide a full account of its biological warfare program and may still be trying to deceive U.N. weapons inspectors.
WASHINGTON - The United States has concluded that Pakistan test-fired its longest-range missile, notwithstanding some skepticism in India about Islamabad's announcement that a test had taken place.
The United States has consulted Thailand and other countries about capturing and putting on trial former Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, widely held responsible for the deaths of a million or more Cambodians in the 1970s.
The United States condemned a rocket attack on an Athens branch of Citibank and rejected as "twisted outrageous logic" Greek claims that it may have been connected to comments by the U.S. ambassador there.
KIGALI - Ethnic Hutu militia killed 28 civilians in a pre-dawn attack in northwest Rwanda and suffered at least 20 dead in ensuing clashes.
WASHINGTON - Scientists have discovered an easy method to diagnose a serious brain disease that has been known to kill sheep for centuries, a finding that could someday lead to a diagnosis for mad cow disease.
MECCA, Saudi Arabia - Relatives, friends and diplomats flocked to hospitals in and near the holy city of Mecca to identify 118 Moslem pilgrims killed in a stampede on the last day of the annual haj.
BAGHDAD - Iraq blasted Britain's move to organise a conference aimed at speeding up implementation of a U.N. plan to allow sanctions-hit Iraq to sell more oil for food.
Iraq dismissed as lies Kuwaiti charges that it was still holding Kuwaiti prisoners, and accused Kuwait of trying to keep U.N. sanctions clamped on Baghdad.
ANKARA - Turkey's parliament will discuss next week a government call for an investigation into former prime minister Tansu Ciller's personal wealth.
NICOSIA - Cypriot parliamentarians want the government to take legal action against the British base authorities in Cyprus, who they say violated the immunity of a Cypriot MP last week.
DUBAI - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is trying to defuse a brewing crisis over the arrest of Tehran's moderate mayor on graft charges, asking feuding officials to settle their differences.
JERUSALEM - The Palestinian Authority and the Islamic militant group Hamas escalated a war of words over the mysterious killing of Hamas bombmaker Muhyideen al-Sharif.
CAIRO - One man was killed and six people were injured when a riot erupted in a village northeast of Cairo.
