Yugoslavia said NATO planes targeted a hydroelectric plant and hit a company building five times in overnight raids, and Germany said on Wednesday it was working on a plan to end the conflict in Kosovo.
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia`s ousted finance minister Anwar Ibrahim was sentenced to six years in jail for corruption on Wednesday, triggering violent street protests by enraged supporters and international indignation.
NEW DELHI - Indian officials and analysts were cool to Pakistan`s missile test on Wednesday, saying the tit-for-tat exercise would neither boost a regional arms race nor hinder peace talks between the neighbours.
India`s leading opposition Congress party said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee should resign because his coalition government had lost its right to rule after an ally withdrew its support.
MOSCOW - Russia`s State Duma lower house of parliament voted after crisis consultations on Wednesday to postpone until May 12-15 a vote to start impeachment proceedings against President Boris Yeltsin.
BLACE, Macedonia - Several hundred Kosovo ethnic Albanian refugees reached the Macedonian border at Blace on Wednesday.
BELGRADE - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic appeared on Wednesday before foreign journalists for the first time since NATO air strikes began when he welcomed Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko to Belgrade.
BEIJING - Police have rounded up 86 people in a restive Moslem region in northwest China in the last year in a crackdown on underground religious activities.
JAKARTA - East Timor guerrilla chief Xanana Gusmao on Wednesday stood by a call to arms in the bloodied territory despite Indonesia`s demand for a retraction.
NEW DELHI - India`s foreign minister said on Wednesday that there was no arms race on the subcontinent, but declined to comment directly on Pakistan`s missile test in response to a trial flight by its arch-rival at the weekend.
WASHINGTON - President Clinton`s contempt of court ruling raised the possibility Tuesday that he could be charged hundreds of thousands of dollars more in legal fees and be disbarred from practicing law in his home state.
CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez insisted on Tuesday that Congress must be dissolved this year by a popular assembly, shrugging off a Supreme Court ruling that limited the assembly`s powers.
JOHANNESBURG - President Nelson Mandela on Wednesday formally declared June 2 as the date for the election that will end his leadership of South Africa.
UNITED NATIONS - Security Council members issued a new call on Tuesday for an immediate halt to the fighting between Ethiopia and Eritrea and welcomed plans to send U.N. troubleshooter Mohamed Sahnoun on another trip to troubled region.
BEIRUT - Six people were killed and seven others wounded on Wednesday when fighting erupted at a military checkpoint on the coastal highway linking Beirut to Tripoli.
ALGIERS - Six Algerian presidential hopefuls called for an urgent meeting with outgoing President Liamine Zeroual to stop vote-rigging they charged has already started in favour of the army candidate.
WASHINGTON - The United States on Tuesday condemned the assassination of an Iranian general in Tehran and denied it was sheltering the Mujahideen Khalq organization, which claimed responsibility for the attack.
