WASHINGTON - U.S. and British jets attacked targets in Western-imposed no-fly zones in Iraq on Tuesday, including an anti-missile site the Pentagon said could have threatened shipping in the oil-rich Gulf.
LONDON - U.S. envoy Chris Hill said on Wednesday Belgrade would have to accept the idea that there would be self-rule in Kosovo.
WASHINGTON - Senators viewed tapes of Monica Lewinsky‘s testimony on Tuesday and weighed whether to call her to the Senate floor, as impeachment prosecutors questioned President Bill Clinton‘s friend Vernon Jordan.
JOHANNESBURG - The president of Daewoo Corp South Africa, Y.K. Kwon, was murdered in his car in a wealthy Johannesburg suburb on Wednesday, the victim of a suspected vehicle hijacking.
ANKARA - A top Turkish official was quoted on Tuesday as saying fugitive Kurdish guerrilla chief Abdullah Ocalan had been stranded for two weeks at a Russian military airfield before briefly resurfacing this week in western Europe.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Olympics boss Juan Antonio Samaranch, facing calls to quit after a major corruption scandal, is now under pressure to step aside from control of a new body aimed at stamping out doping.
PORT MORESBY - A twin-engined plane crashed into a Papua New Guinea jungle during a storm on Wednesday, killing all 11 people on board.
UNITED NATIONS - With the Security Council having set up panels to evaluate its relationship with Iraq, diplomats said chief weapons inspector Richard Butler will not be asked to serve on the committee reviewing Baghdad‘s arms.
ON BOARD THE SIROCO - Thousands of civilians fleeing heavy fighting in the Guinea-Bissau capital have packed churches and foreign embassies, and food and water are running short.
CARACAS - Hugo Chavez, a paratrooper turned charismatic politician, assumed the Venezuelan presidency on Tuesday and immediately embarked on "a political revolution" to complete a process he started with a failed coup seven years ago.
