ASMARA - Ethiopia appealed for international emergency supplies for 300,000 people it said were displaced in the aftermath of fighting with northern neighbour and former Eritrea in which hundreds died.
UNITED NATIONS - Angola`s UNITA movement detained and then released three U.N. police observers in the eastern part of the country where U.N. troops have been evacuated in anticipation of fighting, the United Nations said.
LISBON - Portuguese marines helped evacuate 780 people from the Guinea-Bissau capital of Bissau night after renewed fighting between rebels and pro-government forces.
WASHINGTON - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr lashed back against an article in Content magazine that accused him of media leaks, saying the story is full of errors and "borders on the libellous".
ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz has signed a pact with an opposition faction for early general elections next year under which he is to resign by December, government sources said.
MANAGUA - Seven members of ex-Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega`s inner circle, including a priest who served as foreign relations minister for the Sandinista regime, were named as accomplices in a sex abuse case brought against Ortega by his stepdaughter.
ROME - China lashed on at the prospect of a world criminal court over which states would have no say while Albania said the most convincing argument for the tribunal was "genocidal massacres" in Kosovo.
KUWAIT - Chief U.N. arms inspector Richard Butler said Iraq`s full cooperation with his two-month work plan could earn it an end to the oil embargo imposed on it for invading Kuwait in 1990.
ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis has rebuffed a direct appeal from U.S. President Bill Clinton for gentler diplomacy towards arch rival Turkey.
WASHINGTON - Syria and Lebanon would conclude a peace treaty with Israel within three months if Israel agreed to pick up stalled peace talks where they left off, Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri said.
MOSCOW - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic flew back to Belgrade after agreeing in talks with Russian leaders to meet many of the demands set by world powers for ending bloodshed in his troubled province of Kosovo.
BRUSSELS - Swiss officials said they had reached agreement with the European Union on key elements of an ambitious trade and cooperation pact after three and a half years of negotiations.
JERUSALEM - Israeli police said they had arrested three Jews on suspicion of the drive-by killing of a Palestinian man in the West Bank town of Hebron.
CARDIFF - European Union leaders ended a two-day summit with broad messages of economic optimism and pledges to reform the Union into a more people-friendly institution.
SINGAPORE - Japan and the United States must take swift action to halt the slide of the yen to head off a feared regional depression.
BOSTON - Massachusetts` highest court upheld a reduced sentence of manslaughter against British au pair Louise Woodward in the death of an 8-month-old baby, leaving her free to go home to England.
MARSEILLE - Three English fans, including two known to police as dangerous soccer hooligans, were jailed for up to four months by a Marseille court.
