MOGADISHU - A Malaysian businessman has been murdered in Somalia, where he previously served as an officer with United Nations peacekeepers.
KINSHASA - President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo reshuffled his government, sacking five ministers under investigation for alleged corruption and bringing in 13 new members.
PARIS - A crippling pilots strike kept most Air France flights grounded for a second day but negotiations were set to resume in the afternoon.
MOSCOW - The cosmonauts aboard Russia‘s Mir space station were able to focus on preparing for their last meeting with a U.S. shuttle crew after fixing a glitch with the station‘s orientation system.
CHICAGO - A weekend of violent weather killed at least 16 people from the upper U.S. Midwest to New England.
BEIRUT - Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara said his country supported holding an Arab summit on the Middle East peace process, though the timing depended on reaching agreement on an agenda.
SALAMANCA, Spain - Bosnia‘s international peace coordinator called Serbia‘s troubled Kosovo province a powder keg and said the conflict could spill over into other countries.
WASHINGTON - President Bill Clinton decided to forego a Watergate-style Supreme Court fight over his claim of executive privilege to shield the testimony of two top aides in a sex and cover-up probe of the president.
KABUL - Afghanistan‘s Taleban Islamic movement has acknowledged it lost ground to opposition forces in the northwestern province of Badghis in fighting that erupted after Saturday‘s killer earthquake in the north.
ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast banned all demonstrations in its schools in response to increased tension there after a policeman shot dead a student during a protest last month.
ADDIS ABABA - Fighting erupted on Sunday between Ethiopia and Eritrea in the disputed border region between the countries.
CAIRO - Israeli Defence Minister Yitzhak Mordechai began talks on stalled Middle East peace efforts with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
The Egyptian government has stopped two English-language newspapers from publishing just two weeks after PM Kamal Ganzouri revoked a controversial printing ban.
TEHRAN - A group of Iranian deputies has summoned foreign minister to be questioned in parliament over a visit by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whom they named a „pillar of Zionism“.
BAGHDAD - A special team of U.N. experts working to scrap Iraq‘s weapons of mass destruction is still looking for remnants of missile warheads, which if found could help settle some of the outstanding disarmament issues.
TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Ten people were wounded when supporters of rival candidates in Lebanon‘s local elections clashed with knives and clubs.
LONDON - Britain is pressuring Yemeni officials to allow three British Broadcasting Corporation journalists who were arrested six days ago to leave the country.
