KINSHASA - A prominent opponent of Democratic Congo President Laurent Kabila and the acting army chief of staff have been arrested in different parts of the capital.
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's Winnie Madikizela-Mandela will hear testimony from the white priest she labelled a sodomist on Wednesday, the third day of a probe into what witnesses say was a reign of terror by her entourage during the 1980s.
TOKYO - Japan on Wednesday made an extraordinary appeal for calm among the public and financial markets over the country's economic crisis. A rare joint statement by Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka and Bank of Japan governor Yasuo Matsushita, also promised there were no more major bankruptcies among financial institutions ahead for nation.
JOHANNESBURG - Malawi's veteran former leader Kamuzu Banda died late on Tuesday in a South African clinic where he was being treated for pneumonia, a hospital spokeswoman said.
VANCOUVER - Pacific Rim leaders ended their annual summit with a ringing endorsement of Asia's fundamental economic strength and a call for united action to battle its recent financial turmoil.
WASHINGTON - The United States turned up its war of words with Baghdad over U.N. weapons inspectors while Russia, buoyed by its diplomatic success in rolling back their expulsion from Iraq, counselled restraint.
JERUSALEM - Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu convenes his cabinet to consider handing over more land to Palestinians under a proposal already rejected by his PLO peace partner and members of his own coalition.
MOSCOW - President Boris Yeltsin vowed to ignore opposition demands to fire Russia's leading economic reformer, but said the government would face trouble if it fails to carry out its economic promises.
NEW YORK - A Wall Street investment brokerage firm employee, two stockbrokers and a fourth person were indicted for conspiring to steal more than $1 million through insider trading.
JAKARTA - A strong earthquake shook the northern part of Indonesia's Sulawesi island but there were no immediate reports of casualties or serious damage.
WASHINGTON - Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said his government would "throw out" any U.N. arms imspectors who tried to go into any of Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces even if it provoked a military response.
ABU DHABI - The president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has made his strongest bid yet to have Iraq re-admitted to the Arab ranks, saying Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had committed mistakes out of greed and should be forgiven.
ANKARA - A U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Iraq's feuding Kurds looked increasingly shaky as two opposing groups blamed each other for fresh fighting in northern Iraq.
PARIS - A bomb killed four civilians in a Moslem rebel stronghold in Algeria, raising questions over whether a major guerrilla faction had ended its declared ceasefire.
TEHRAN - The Iranian navy is to build three multi-purpose destroyers and also plans to build a small submarine.
GAZA - PLO officials said a Palestinian woman on a hunger strike in an Israeli jail was in critical condition and had rejected a Palestinian Authority demand she end her fast.
BEIRUT - The pro-Iranian Hizbollah said that two of its guerrillas had been killed in fighting with Israeli troops in south Lebanon three days earlier.
