JERUSALEM - Israel and the Palestinians plan to break an eight-month-old peacemaking deadlock ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright‘s Middle East mission next week.
MOSCOW - The Russian military said on Monday federal troops in the southern region of Dagestan had killed 140 Islamic rebels in clashes and bombing raids.
BISHKEK - Kyrgyzstan faced its second hostage crisis in a month on Monday after a group of around 30 armed infiltrators crossed from Tajikistan, seized a village and took at least six hostages.
BEIJING - South Korean Defence Minister Cho Seong-tae arrived in China on Monday for the first high-level military talks between the two countries.
LONDON - Britain‘s Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam is likely this week to deliver a long-awaited verdict on the state of the IRA‘s ceasefire.
LONDON - Yugoslavia suffered damage totalling some $60 billion during its 11-week conflict with NATO, according to a report released on Monday by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
MOSCOW - Moscow‘s powerful mayor Yuri Luzhkov lashed out at the Kremlin in a television interview on Sunday, delivering his fiercest criticism yet of what he called the „regime“ of President Yeltsin.
KAMPALA - The leaders of Uganda and Rwanda met on Sunday in a bid to revive their troubled alliance and persuade Congolese rebel factions to sign a peace deal ending a year-old civil war.
EDITED BY ZUZANA VILIKOVSKÁ
