LUANDA - Angolan state radio said 16 policemen were killed in an ambush by Unita rebels and it reported heavy fighting in the diamond-rich Lunda Norte region.
HARARE - Democratic Republic of the Congo President Kabila held three hours of talks with Zimbabwean President Mugabe in Harare which allegedly centred on security in the former Zaire.
WASHINGTON - President Bill Clinton, casting aside his reservations about meeting Boris Yeltsin before Russia ratifies the START-2 disarmament treaty, has agreed to join the Russian president for a September summit.
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia - U.S. envoy to the Balkans Robert Gelbard said a peaceful solution to the conflict in Kosovo was still possible but time was running out as NATO accelerates its planning and preparations.
MOSCOW - Unpaid Russian coalminers blocked the Trans-Siberian railway for a fourth successive day on Monday and refused talks with a government envoy, increasing pressure on the government as it grapples with a financial crisis.
BUENOS AIRES - An Argentine ex-policeman told how the corpses of two French nuns who disappeared in the „Dirty War“ were put into a sealed drum and dumped in a river, but their families‘ lawyer cast doubt on the story.
GENEVA - Russia remains alarmingly dependent on volatile short-term foreign capital because of its cash shortage and may be tempted to devalue its rouble currency.
LONDON - World oil prices slid below $13 a barrel after Venezuelan accusations that fellow OPEC heavyweight Iran had overproduced and predictions of a sharp increase in Iraq‘s crude exports.
WASHINGTON - Scientists launched a fresh attack against the idea that a Martian meteorite contained evidence of life.
LOS ANGELES - Roy Rogers, the clean-living, guitar-strumming „King of the Cowboys“ who galloped into America‘s heart riding Trigger across movie and TV screens, died on Monday at age 86.
JAKARTA - President B.J. Habibie has asked Indonesians to adopt the Moslem practice of fasting for two days each week to help cope with worsening food shortages.
TOKYO - Japanese ministers pledged tax reform that may include tax cuts, but resisted giving details before a weekend parliamentary election in which the ruling party may struggle to secure a needed majority.
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. General Assembly is expected to enhance the status of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, giving it many rights of a full-fledged member nation within the world body.
UNITED NATIONS - Security Council members again called for direct talks between leaders of the divided island of Cyprus after a briefing from U.N. envoy Diego Cordovez who told them there might be some movement in his next trip to the country.
TUNIS - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has undergone successful surgery for a broken hip suffered when he was exercising.
JERUSALEM - Branding Benjamin Netanyahu a liar, the head of Israel‘s main opposition party told parliament that the prime minister was leading the country towards war with the Palestinians.
SANAA - Yemeni security officials have accused members of the Islamist Islah opposition party of direct involvement in recent civil unrest following steep price rises by the government.
