NAIROBI - FBI agents have raided a Kenyan hotel where the bomb that targeted the U.S. embassy in Nairobi was made, confiscating evidence and arresting its manager.
NAIROBI - A former colonel in the Rwandan military police has pleaded not guilty to charges that he took part in the 1994 genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
BELFAST - The republican splinter group known as the Real IRA behind the fatal Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland said it was declaring an immediate ceasefire. Britain said the statement was an insult to the dead.
GENEVA - A Swiss judge has formally demanded the indictment of Pakistan`s ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto for alleged money-laundering based on contracts with two Swiss companies.
BAGHDAD - The U.N. special envoy to Iraq left Baghdad for New York after failing to get the Iraqis to rescind a decision halting cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors.
NEW DELHI - More than 200 people were feared dead as rescue workers searched for bodies after severe landslides hit pilgrims on their way to a holy Himalayan lake across the Tibet border.
GENEVA - The United Nations labour organisation urged governments to officially recognise the booming sex industry and treat it like any other business.
MONTEREY, Calif. - The world is running out of seafood because 70 percent of its major fishing grounds are being "strip mined" by too many boats, the World Wildlife Fund said.
MOSCOW - Russians sought ways to spend excess roubles or swap them into dollars after the currency was effectively devalued, but President Boris Yeltsin calmly continued a more than month-long holiday.
PORT MATADI, DR Congo - Four African foreign ministers held landmark talks with Congolese rebels advancing across Africa`s third largest country in a widening war to topple embattled President Laurent Kabila.
WASHINGTON - The United States is concerned about what could be an underground nuclear complex being built in North Korea and will raise the issue at a meeting in New York this week.
Monica Lewinsky, the young woman at the heart of the White House sex and perjury scandal, has been called to testify again on Thursday to the grand jury probing the case.
BROLIC, Serbia - Around 10,000 refugees are trapped along a riverbank in western Kosovo by Serbian forces intent on choking off a guerrilla enclave.
UNITED NATIONS - Iraq is expected to fall short by $1 billion or 25 percent in oil revenues needed under a programme aimed at providing food, medicine and other humanitarian goods for its people.
ISLAMABAD - Afghanistan`s Islamic Taleban movement said Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden was not involved in the U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa and that it would refuse to hand him over to another country.
KINSHASA - Forces loyal to President Laurent Kabila and Rwandan-backed rebels appear to be shaping up for a showdown in the strategic western corridor linking the capital Kinshasa with the sea.
GAZA - Yasser Arafat`s plan to declare a Palestinian state next May in the absence of a peace deal with Israel came under a stinging assault from one of the most respected figures in Palestinian politics.
LONDON - Former Nigerian ruler Olusegun Obasanjo, released from detention in June, said the government of former military ruler General Sani Abacha had planned to kill him in prison with a lethal injection.
KAMPALA - Uganda`s parliament suspended all privatisations, pending the findings of a select committee set up to investigate accusations of official corruption levelled this week by an Ethiopian-based company.
