KHARTOUM - Sudan said its troops repelled an artillery and tank attack on its eastern border by Eritrean forces and rebels.
VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul prayed for five members of the Catholic clergy killed in Yemen, South Africa and Congo Republic.
MOSCOW - President Boris Yeltsin said „urgent business“ linked to Russia‘s economic crisis had forced him to cut short his holiday in northwest Russia and return to Moscow.
PHNOM PENH - Cambodian leader Hun Sen said his preferred choice as coalition partner would be Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the man he ousted as co-premier in a coup a year ago.
BRUSSELS - The European Union has put in place economic sanctions against Angola‘s opposition UNITA movement for failing to implement peace accords signed in 1994 to bring an end to 20 years of civil war.
TOKYO - A complex drama surrounding Japan‘s next cabinet lineup took another confusing twist when former premier Kiichi Miyazawa said he did not want the post of finance minister.
NEW DELHI - Eight people were killed and 19 seriously wounded in a powerful bomb explosion in the remote northeastern Indian state of Assam.
COLOMBO - The prime ministers of India and Pakistan are scheduled to hold talks on the sidelines of a summit of South Asian nations, their first since the rival countries shocked the world with nuclear tests in May.
BEIJING - China has voiced strong concern about rapes and other attacks against ethnic Chinese during May riots in Indonesia and called on Jakarta to investigate the racially-motivated violence.
MUNICH - German Chancellor Helmut Kohl‘s conservatives began taking the wraps off their long-delayed election campaign programme with a populist vow to take a tougher stance on foreign criminals.
BOGOTA - Two U.S. crop-dusters were killed when their plane crashed during an anti-drug training mission in a jungle region of southeast Colombia.
WASHINGTON - Monica Lewinsky, the woman at the heart of the White House scandal, will testify to the grand jury after signing a deal that gives her immunity from prosecution. Her testimony could ratchet up pressure on President Clinton, who has denied under oath that he had an affair with Lewinsky, a former White House intern, and who now faces a subpoena to testify before the grand jury himself.
JOHANNESBURG - Angola will soon launch a three-month dry season offensive against the former rebel group UNITA with backing from Namibia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
ALGIERS - Moslem rebels cut the throats of six civilians and shot dead four soldiers and three pro-government militiamen in an attack southwest of Algiers earlier this week.
FLINT, Mich. - General Motors Corp and the United Auto Workers called a truce in their long summer of labour strife, cutting deals to end crippling strikes at two parts plants here and to prevent threatened walkouts at other locations.
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Clinton imposed sanctions on seven Russian enterprises that Washington believes helped Iran develop its missile programme, and vowed to punish other firms that spread weapons of mass destruction.
North Korea, Iran and other countries are concealing their ballistic missile programmes from U.S. spy satellites by using enormous underground laboratories and factories to build and test the weapons.
