KINSHASA - The Democratic Republic of the Congo hosts a two-day Great Lakes Solidarity and Development summit to mark President Kabila's first year in power, with at least one major player certain to be absent.
MONROVIA - President Charles Taylor said that inciting ethnic division will be treated as treason in Liberia -- and suggested inter-marriage as a way of fighting tribalism.
DJIBOUTI - President Hassan Gouled Aptidon of Djibouti flew to the Ethiopian capital to try to mediate in a violent border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
BELGRADE - Kosovo separatist leader Ibrahim Rugova meets Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Friday for talks that his divided advisors insist will not involve negotiations in the absence of a foreign mediator.
WASHINGTON - Microsoft Corp. won a reprieve from major new government antitrust lawsuits by agreeing to delay the release of its upcoming Windows 98 program for a few days.
BUDAPEST - The rightist Fidesz Hungarian Civic Party will get the most seats in parliamentary elections next week but not a majority.
BUENOS AIRES - Bolivia's most wanted fugitive -- his face and hair changed by plastic surgery -- was arrested in the Argentine coastal resort of Mar del Plata after being on the run since last October.
LAHORE, Pakistan - Pakistani police clashed with Christians calling for the repeal of a blasphemy law that led to the suicide of a Roman Catholic bishop last week.
BELFAST - British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave a veiled warning that Sinn Fein could be blocked from seats in a new Northern Ireland power-sharing executive if its IRA guerrilla ally refuses to scrap hidden arsenals.
