LOME - The head of Togo`s national election commission and four of its members have resigned, citing harassment and intimidation following Sunday`s presidential election.
YAOUNDE - Soccer fans in the Cameroon capital Yaounde vented their anger over the early exit of their national team from the World Cup on whites, jostling them, attacking their property and telling them to go home.
MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko met a topIMF official to discuss new loans to help to stabilise the country`s turbulent financial markets, Interfax news agency said.
BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana told Kosovo`s ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova that his aim of independence was out of the question. Solana also told Rugova that he should immediately resume talks with the Yugoslav government.
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has accepted the resignation of his cabinet and will name newministers within the next two weeks.
MOSCOW - Russia delayed the launch of six satellites, including five foreign-made probes, for the second time in two days due to a booster malfunction.
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia said there had been a brief exchange of artillery fire between Ethiopian and Eritrean forces at the Zalambessa front.
MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities said they could not confirm that a plane with up to 85 passengers on board had crashed in mountains in the northern state of Chihuahua.
