A new round of peace talks aimed at ending Sudan's long-running civil war began in the Kenyan capital.
CAPE TOWN - Six people, including three young girls, were shot dead when suspected Moslem vigilantes opened fire on the house of an alleged drug dealer in a Cape Town suburb.
DAR ES SALAAM - Over 60 people drowned when their bus was swept into a river in northern Tanzania on Sunday.
JAKARTA - Indonesia's military chief issued a stern warning against anti-Suharto student protests, as the government announced hikes in fuel, electricity and transport prices.
NICOSIA - U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke blamed the Turkish Cypriots for the failure to resume U.N.-brokered peace talks on the divided island of Cyprus.
BRUSSELS - EU leaders returned from a weekend summit to face a barrage of criticism from across the continent over a controversial deal naming Wim Duisenberg as president of the new European Central Bank.
PHNOM PENH - Cambodia's ousted co-premier Prince Ranariddh arrived back to begin preparations for a July general election.
DUSHANBE - A senior Tajik official warned that the killing of three soldiers by an Islamist opposition group could shatter a fragile peace holding after days of fierce fighting.
CANBERRA - Sacked Australian dockers appeared to have won back their jobs after a legal victory was followed by a quick deal to get the companies that employed them operating again.
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh - A court in Bangladesh sentenced 41 Moslem militants to life imprisonment.
TOKYO - A massive under-the-sea earthquake off Japan's southernmost Okinawa islands set off a tidal wave scare that briefly disrupted the summer vacations of thousands of holidaymakers.
COPENHAGEN - Denmark's biggest labour conflict in 13 years entered its second week and it was unclear when union and employer group leaders would meet again for talks to end the dispute.
NEW YORK - Government scientists are excited about progress with tests on two cancer drugs that are eradicating any type of cancer in mice.
PONOSEVAC, Serbia - Five Serbian policemen were wounded in a fierce battle with ethnic Albanian separatist guerrillas who attacked the border village in southwest Kosovo.
TOULON, France - France's far-right National Front failed by just 33 votes to keep its only seat in parliament.
SYDNEY - Three Chinese naval ships entered Sydney Harbour in an historic first visit to Australia by the PLA-Navy, but the event was disrupted when a protester yelling "Free Tibet" jumped onto the back of one of the ships.
JERUSALEM - Tel Aviv Mayor Roni Milo, a rebel in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party with moderate views on making peace with Arabs, challenged Netanyahu for Israel's leadership.
A photomontage depicting slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the nude was removed by police from a Jerusalem playground.
MOGADISHU - Twenty Somalis died in weekend fighting between rival factions around the southern port city of Kismayu.
DAKAR - Senegal began campaigning for a May 24 parliamentary election with a splinter group from the ruling Socialists challenging the party that has ruled the West African nation since independence from France in 1960.
N'DJAMENA - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pursued a charm offensive in neighbouring Chad, rallying the support of 40 political parties and of 500 traditional chiefs to his fight against U.N. sanctions.
ISLAMABAD - Peace talks between warring Afghan sides collapsed as the opposition accused the Taleban movement of refusing to discuss lifting a blockade of an opposition-held region in central Afghanistan.
ISTANBUL - A Turkish court ruled that the constitutional court should put a former interior minister on trial for alleged links to criminal gangs, a charge that carries a jail sentence of up to 15 years.
PARIS - Attackers cut the throats of 11 Algerian civilians south of Algiers and troops killed 89 Moslem rebels in military operations.
