GEORGE, South Africa - Former president P.W. Botha, back on trial for ignoring South Africa‘s truth commission, was accused of knowing of plans to kill opponents of apartheid.
MOGADISHU - Gunmen killed four people and wounded five in an attack on a public bus in the south of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday.
JAKARTA - Indonesia said it will investigate the wealth amassed by former president Suharto during his 32 years in power, which ended less than two weeks ago after protests.
PARIS - Traffic was brought almost to a standstill at the French state airline Air France as pilots began a strike likely to affect the World Cup soccer tournament.
BEIJING - U.S. National Security adviser Sandy Berger arrived in China for talks with Chinese officials ahead of a landmark Sino-U.S. summit this month.
MANILA - Philippine military leaders told incoming President Joseph Estrada they expected the threats from Moslem separatist and communist groups to decline in the future.
NEW DELHI - India turned its attention back to economic and political troubles at home as the public euphoria, feisty rhetoric and global outrage over its nuclear tests came off the boil.
BOSTON - Tornadoes and thunderstorms ripped through the U.S. Northeast and New England lately, killing at least two people and leaving some 80,000 utility customers without power.
ROME - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi dismissed any threat to his coalition government from an impasse over constitutional reforms which he said was no different to other problems it has faced in the past two years.
MOSCOW - Russia‘s opposition Communists said they were in no hurry to launch a planned parliamentary bid to impeach President Yeltsin.
BEIRUT - Arab League head Esmat Abdel-Meguid said there was broad consensus on the need for an Arab summit on Middle East peace but the participants, agenda and venue remained to be decided.
JERUSALEM - Israel said Palestinian efforts to convene an Arab summit that would censure the Jewish state for the deadlock in Middle East peacemaking violated Israeli-Palestinian peace accords.
HARARE - Zimbabwe‘s former president Canaan Banana pleaded not guilty to charges he homosexually attacked his bodyguards and domestic workers during his reign.
NIAMEY - Niger‘s government has ordered the army and security forces to restore discipline among paramilitary Republican Guardsmen and disgruntled soldiers mutinying over back pay in towns upcountry.
CANBERRA - The United Nations-sponsored Conference on Disarmament will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss the nuclear stand-off between Pakistan and India.
PRISTINA, Serbia - Two Serbian policemen were killed in fighting in Kosovo on Sunday with ethnic Albanians, who said their own death toll since Friday was at least 15.
TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Ten people were wounded when supporters of rival candidates in Lebanon‘s local elections clashed with knives and clubs.
QUITO, Ecuador - Quito Mayor Jamil Mahuad won the first round of Ecuador‘s presidential election and will face rival Alvaro Noboa in a July runoff.
ALGIERS - Algerian security forces have foiled a plan by Islamist rebels to step up attacks in Algiers, killing 26 guerrillas in the capital over the past two weeks.
