NEW DELHI - India applied the brakes to its military offensive in the mountains of northern Kashmir on Monday as infiltrators began an agreed withdrawal to Pakistan‘s side of the disputed territory‘s ceasefire line.

LONDON - Two men will appear in a British court on Monday, suspected of involvement in last year‘s devastating attack on two U.S. embassies in Africa.

ALGIERS - African leaders on Monday began a three-day Organisation of African Unity (OAU) summit dominated by a flurry of peace-making attempts on the war-torn continent.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Two U.S. consular officials were questioned briefly by police after going to an area on Russia‘s remote Kamchatka peninsula without the required documents.

BRUSSELS - Belgium‘s King Albert on Monday swore in a new government headed by Flemish Liberal leader Guy Verhofstadt, who has forged a six-party coalition government after the June 13 elections.

NAIROBI - Hussein Aideed, Somalia‘s most powerful warlord, says he is determined to throw invading Ethiopian troops out of the country despite the setbacks he has suffered in the latest fighting.

TUNIS - Defence lawyers walked out of court on Monday in protest against the curtailing of a speech defending colleague and human rights activist Radhia Nasraoui.

ANKARA - Guerrillas loyal to condemned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan killed two people in an attack overnight on a road construction site.

GUATEMALA CITY - Authorities turned to cleaning up on Monday after a powerful earthquake tore through a Caribbean coastal region of Central America, killing one Guatemalan and injuring 40 people in another blow to a region that was pounded by Hurricane Mitch last year.

QUITO, Ecuador - Eight people were injured on Sunday when Ecuadorean soldiers opened fire on protesters during the seventh day of a transport strike against a 13 percent rise in gasoline prices.

ISLAMABAD - Islamic parties and Kashmiri militants prepared on Monday to protest against Pakistan‘s decision to ask guerrillas to withdraw from Indian Kashmir, hours before Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif‘s state broadcast defending it.

DILI - A team of top Indonesian ministers and military brass arrived in East Timor on Monday in a bid to rein in loyalist militias that threaten to derail a U.N.-run independence vote.

TAIPEI - Taiwan said on Monday it would scrap the "one China" doctrine that has been the basis for wary talks with communist China, saying Beijing‘s interpretation of the concept left no room for productive relations.