KIGALI - The Rwandan army said it had killed a leading Hutu rebel, Lieutenant-Colonel Mugemana, during a military operation in the troubled northwestern province of Ruhengeri.
BEIJING - A company of over 100 Chinese troops sent to battle floods in central Hubei province was washed away when a waterlogged dike broke along the swollen Yangtze river.
NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said India was committed to a dialogue with intermediaries to join a global nuclear test ban treaty, adding New Delhi no longer needed tests for nuclear defence.
Guerrillas killed at least 18 people in the Poonch district of restive Jammu and Kashmir state.
MOGADISHU - Rival faction leaders who control different parts of the Somali capital have agreed to establish a new administration for the city.
COLOMBO - Sri Lanka declared an islandwide state of emergency for a month, effectively ruling out the possibility of holding scheduled elections to five provincial councils.
WASHINGTON - Western powers stepped up the pressure on Serbia to halt its offensive in the strife-torn province of Kosovo.
GAZA - A Palestinian official said Palestinian negotiators had rejected ideas put forward by Israel to revive their peace process and saw no basis for more talks.
SANAA - Yemen‘s president has issued a decree imposing the death penalty for kidnapping.
ANKARA - Turkish state religious authorities are to take control of some 180 privately run mosques as part of a new anti-Islamist law demanded by the powerful military.
JOHANNESBURG - South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu published a searing attack on South Africa‘s former white leaders, saying most had lied to his post-apartheid truth commission.
LAGOS - Leaders of Nigeria‘s Yoruba, whose southwestern ethnic heartland has long been the stronghold of opposition to military rule, have given the nod to General Abubakar‘s plan to restore democracy next year.
WASHINGTON - President Bill Clinton‘s legal team scrambled to keep top White House lawyers off the witness stand. A spokesman said Clinton would continue to deny that he had sex with Monica Lewinsky.
BELFAST - A landmark compromise was reached between Protestant marchers and Catholic residents in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry over a contentious parade planned for the weekend.
LASSING, Austria - Rescuers on Monday considered whether to call off a 17-day search for survivors in a caved-in Austrian mine after failing to find 10 missing men in an air pocket where they were thought to be.
WASHINGTON - A U.S. federal judge ordered a status hearing in the government‘s antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. as the two sides wrangled over pretrial manoeuvres that could delay the landmark trial.
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on Palestinians to stop threatening to cut off peace talks and to keep negotiating over U.S. proposals to salvage Middle East peacemaking.
TEHRAN - A court has found the publisher of a journalists‘ newspaper guilty of violating press regulations after the weekly printed a letter attacking Iran‘s late spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada - Cuban President Fidel Castro ended a three-nation Caribbean tour after receiving a hero‘s welcome at a rally where Grenadians cheered him as a giant of Third World politics and champion of the poor.
