CAIRO - South Sudan rebel leader John Garang met a rival who has made peace with Khartoum, but the talks failed to resolve their differences.
KIEV - Passengers on a Ukrainian cruise ship rioted in the Bosporus Strait after the tour company organising the trip changed the route.
CAPE CANAVERAL - The crews of Russian space station Mir and the shuttle Discovery prepared to go their separate ways and end an era in U.S.-Russian cooperation in space.
MOGADISHU - Fierce fighting between rival armed Somali factions raged around the key town of Baidoa over the weekend.
RABAT - A United Nations team has so far identified 124,312 voters for a referendum on the future of the disputed Western Sahara.
WASHINGTON - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has agreed to allow foreign diplomatic observers to enter and move around the troubled province of Kosovo.
NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said India was committed to a „path of direct bilateral dialogue“ with Pakistan and wanted the earliest resumption of peace talks.
JERUSALEM - Jewish settlers took over a number of homes in Arab East Jerusalem overnight and at least one Palestinian was hurt in clashes at the site. The U.S. ambassador to Israel hosted surprise talks between senior Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators.
JAKARTA - Indonesia‘s former president Suharto plans to hold a news conference on Tuesday when he is expected to counter charges of illegally amassing a fortune.
