against threatened impeachment, confounding the odds by allowing Democrats to score across the board, picking up seats in the House, blocking any Republican gains in the Senate and winning the election‘s single biggest prize — the governorship of California.
MEXICO CITY - Mexico said it would establish an air bridge to ferry urgently needed aid to storm-ravaged Central America and called on the international community to help the impoverished region rebuild.
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that an Israeli security demand holding up approval of a new peace deal with the Palestinians was no whim or trick.
KUALA LUMPUR - A witness in Anwar Ibrahim‘s trial said the former finance minister had urged Malaysian police last year to force a man and a woman to retract allegations of sexual misconduct by him.
KUWAIT - U.S. Defence Secretary William Cohen arrived in Kuwait, which was expected to back American efforts to force Iraq to meet all United Nations arms inspection demands.
LONDON - Britain‘s highest court is due to hear an appeal on Wednesday against a ruling that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is immune from prosecution and cannot be extradited to Spain to face charges of torture and genocide. A legal panel of the House of Lords is expected to spend two days hearing the appeal, brought by lawyers representing a Spanish judge who wants the 82-year-old general to face justice in Madrid.
DUSHANBE - Government troops have been killed in fighting in a town in northern Tajikistan after gunmen attacked two positions overnight. President Imomali Rakhmonov called an emergency meeting of his security council, including Russian and U.N. advisers.
HARARE - Congolese President Laurent Kabila arrived in Harare for hastily arranged talks with President Robert Mugabe as confusion mounted over Angola‘s role in a war against Rwandan-backed rebels.
Tension over rocketing prices and Zimbabwe‘s controversial military involvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo erupted during the night in protests and arson attacks around Harare.
BUENOS AIRES - The World Bank has unveiled a plan at U.N. climate talks in Buenos Aires outlining ways that world forests could be both preserved and turned to profit in the battle against global warming.
WYE MILLS, Md. - U.S. mediated Mideast peace talks will run into a sixth day on Tuesday as Palestinian, Israeli and American leaders work to conclude a land and security peace agreement.
APAWOR, Nigeria - Hundreds of bodies charred beyond recognition have been buried in mass graves beside a pipeline which spewed petrol for three days, drew a crowd of thousands to harvest the gushing fuel, then exploded in flame.
ROME - Having clinched an agreement for what he hopes will be a solid base for a new government, Massimo D‘Alema on Tuesday sets about horse trading for the cabinet he will head as Italy‘s first ex-communist prime minister.
WASHINGTON - The government opened its landmark antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. with a direct attack on the credibility of the company‘s billionaire founder, Bill Gates.
