WASHINGTON - President Bill Clinton on Monday formally denied impeachment charges against him by House of Representatives prosecutors who alleged he orchestrated a broad scheme to obstruct justice and hide his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
SEOUL - North Korea on Tuesday threatened to abandon a key nuclear accord, accusing Washington of failing to keep its end of the deal, in what was viewed as a rhetorical blast ahead of crucial diplomatic talks.
PHU NOI REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand - Khmer Rouge chief Ta Mok plans to surrender but wants to strengthen his bargaining position and first observe how two comrades who gave up last month are treated.
PARIS - Striking teachers at a French junior high school said on Tuesday they had agreed to allow two Moslem students wearing headscarves to attend classes so long as they removed the scarves for science and gym.
ADDIS ABABA - Scientists on Monday said they had found fossilised remains in Ethiopia of what appeared to be a five-million- year-old ape-man, the oldest specimen yet discovered anywhere in the world.
WELLINGTON - An international team of scientists has discovered an Earth-size planet in the middle of the Milky Way believed to have the potential to support life, a New Zealand member of the group said on Tuesday.
ANKARA - New Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit is to tell parliament on Tuesday how his government plans to run the country in the three months until general elections.
JOHANNESBURG - President Nelson Mandela‘s envoy to Libya on Tuesday played down hopes that a fresh United Nations initiative could immediately solve diplomatic stalemate over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Hundreds of protesters barricaded streets with burning tires in Haiti‘s capital on Monday as they marched on the parliament in an unsuccessful effort to block its opening session.
NEW YORK - Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan, considered the greatest basketball player of all time, will announce his retirement this week, according to numerous print and broadcast reports.
CAPE TOWN - South African police braced for action on Tuesday after the overnight death of a Moslem rioter hit in the head by a plastic bullet during protests on Friday against the visit of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
FREETOWN - West Africa‘s regional bloc said its Nigerian-led troops were driving rebels out of Sierra Leone‘s capital on Monday and had retaken the presidency.
NEW YORK - A prominent Jewish group whose views carry weight with U.S. politicians on Monday claimed that Deutsche Bank had "blood on its hands" from Holocaust victims, as it considered whether to fight the bank‘s proposed acquisition of Bankers Trust, the eighth-largest U.S. bank.
MILAN - Nine killings over the past 10 days in Milan are Mafia-linked, the Italian government said on Monday as police reinforcements arrived in the financial capital to try to staunch the bloodletting.
LONDON - Unidentified attackers wounded a senior Shi‘ite Moslem clergyman in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf, the latest in a series of assaults on Shi‘ite clerics in Iraq, an opposition foundation said on Monday.
