HANOI - Southeast Asian leaders wrapped up a summit in Vietnam, agreeing a package of measures intended to revive their shattered economies but far apart on some issues.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The space shuttle Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Centre, ending the first orbital assembly mission of the new International Space Station.
JAKARTA - About 1,000 Indonesian students clashed with police in the capital Jakarta while in the country‘s east striking drivers attacked Chinese-owned shops.
WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund offered two of its best-known Asian patients new injections of cash. Fund statements said the institution had approved a $957 million payment for Indonesia and a $140 million one for Thailand.
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian police opened a criminal investigation into then Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim after a split emerged between him and Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad at their party‘s annual meeting, a court heard.
HARARE - Zimbabwe‘s former President Canaan Banana, on the run for three weeks after being convicted of sodomy, returned home on Tuesday night and was due to appear in court on Wednesday.
HARARE - Zimbabwe‘s Defence Ministry said two of its senior army officials helping Congolese President Laurent Kabila fight Tutsi-led rebels were killed on Sunday when their helicopter crashed behind rebel lines.
BELGRADE - President Slobodan Milosevic has attacked the international community, saying it had allowed ethnic Albanian guerrillas to take advantage of a ceasefire in Kosovo.
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that Israel would not proceed with a West Bank withdrawal on Friday under a peace deal with the Palestinians that has threatened his political survival. Aides to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat swiftly condemned the decision and said they would hold Israel responsible for any violence that ensued.
TEGUCIGALPA - A retired captain who allegedly led a death squad in the U.S.-backed Honduran army in the 1980s was arrested upon his voluntary return from three years in Spain.
PARIS - A French parliamentary inquiry blamed the United Nations for failing to avert the 1994 Rwanda genocide and said Washington bore special responsibility for resisting demands to boost the U.N. monitoring force.
CONAKRY - The mood in the West African state of Guinea has changed suddenly from relief over a peaceful presidential poll to apprehension, with the opposition hardening threats of trouble over the expected outcome.
WASHINGTON - The Iranian opposition in exile said a special death squad drawn from members of the Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Intelligence Ministry was behind the recent killing of Iranian dissidents. The National Council of Resistance, which is closely linked with the Iraqi-based Mujahideen Khalq group, said the aim was "to create an atmosphere or terror and intimidation" after outbreaks of protest against the government.
ROME - Rome‘s Court of Appeal ruled that detained Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan could go free because Germany had withdrawn its international arrest warrant for the rebel chief.
