UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council appeared headed for a review of its relations with Baghdad after calling Iraq‘s decision to stop cooperating with U.N. weapons inspectors „totally unacceptable.“
WASHINGTON - NATO and European troops will hold exercises in Albania the week after next and in Macedonia in September to warn Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to end military action in Kosovo.
TOKYO - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi said he would need one to two years to revive the flagging Japanese economy by cutting taxes, expanding budgetary spending and cleaning up the banking sector.
BEIJING - Authorities in central China are evacuating more than half a million people as they prepare to blow up dikes to divert a crest of water raging down the Yangtze River.
ABUJA - Nigeria‘s ruling generals have appointed a 14-member Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to oversee preparations for a return to civilian rule next May.
LIMA - Peruvian Prime Minister Javier Valle Riestra said late he had resigned his post but that President Alberto Fujimori had not yet formally accepted the resignation.
KINSHASA - President Laurent Kabila put Congolese on war alert against Rwanda as Rwandan-backed rebels advanced deeper into the former Zaire, seizing an oil port on the Atlantic coast in the extreme west.
WASHINGTON - A federal judge ordered Microsoft Corp. to make available top executives, including Chairman Bill Gates, and key software code to government lawyers building an antitrust suit against the giant.
KAMPALA - Allied Democratic Force rebels killed at least 26 people in raids in the western Kasese town.
