KOSOVO POLJE, Serbia - Serbian forces pressed their offensive against ethnic Albanian insurgents occupying an open pit coal mine west of Kosovo‘s capital Pristina.
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to cement Israel‘s claim to all of Jerusalem on the eve of a U.N. debate on his government‘s plan to expand the boundaries of the holy city.
MOSCOW - Russia‘s finance minister said he was optimistic that parliament would quickly approve a string of laws which form the nucleus of a government plan for dealing with a financial crisis.
HONG KONG - Chinese President Jiang Zemin arrived in Hong Kong for celebrations of the first anniversary of the territory‘s reunion with China after 150 years of British colonial rule.
COLOMBO - Government troops launched a fresh military offensive in eastern Sri Lanka and destroyed several Tamil separatist bases.
SEOUL - South Korean President Kim Dae-jung proposed a joint investigation with North Korea into the infiltration of a Northern submarine into Southern waters that led to an apparent group suicide by its occupants.
UNITED NATIONS - The Security Council strongly condemned the targeting of children in war, particularly their abduction, sexual abuse, and recruitment as soldiers.
GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemalan troops freed a group of foreigners who had been kidnapped in a remote jungle region of northern Guatemala.
