NAIROBI - Kenyan police said they had arrested three people in connection with the weekend murder of exiled Rwandan opposition leader Seth Sendashonga.
ACCRA - Togo`s constitutional court has cleared six candidates to contest a June 14 presidential election, with veteran president Gnassingbe Eyadema running for a fresh five-year term.
JAKARTA - Indonesia`s army took firm control of the capital, bolstering President Suharto and heading off potentially bloody "people power" protests against his 32-year rule. In a mix of steely threat and soothing words, the military effectively channelled mass anger against Suharto`s refusal to resign into a loud but relatively harmless debate within the confines of parliament.
MOSCOW - Russia`s opposition Communists, seeking to take advantage of growing labour protests, are expected to begin impeachment proceedings against President Yeltsin in parliament. Desperate coal miners, angry at months of empty pay packets, cut Russia in half by blocking all its east-west rail lines, sparking a state of emergency in part of Siberia.
NEW DELHI - Pakistani Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan said that it was a question of when, not if, Pakistan will conduct nuclear tests following arch-enemy India`s five explosions.
GENEVA - Police used tear gas overnight to break up rioters in Geneva seeking to disrupt a key trade summit, which is expected to issue a ringing commitment to free trade. Trading nations around the globe are expected to pledge to keep their markets open in the face of Asia`s financial turmoil and work towards free trade in the 21st century.
BELGRADE - New Yugoslav PM Momir Bulatovic prepared to seek federal parliament approval for a disputed government briskly put together within hours of his nomination by President Milosevic.
MANILA - Former actor Joseph Estrada said his top rival, Speaker Jose de Venecia, had accepted defeat in the Philippine presidential election, clearing the way for his assumption of power.
NEW YORK - A communications satellite delivering television, telephone and digital pager services spun out of control Tuesday, cutting off service to tens of millions of Americans in one of the biggest outages of its kind to date.
LONDON - Two British nurses pardoned after being jailed for the murder of an Australian colleague in Saudi Arabia still insist they are innocent.
ADELAIDE - A lawyer for the brother of an Australian nurse killed in Saudi Arabia said the two British nurses charged with the murder should pay US$1.1 million compensation before their imminent release from jail.
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Turkish troops killed eight Kurdish guerrillas over the last two days in clashes in the southeast of the country.
UNITED NATIONS - Afghanistan`s Taleban movement has withdrawn its proposal to allow a panel of Islamic scholars to set out peace terms to end the country`s civil war, an idea once given a good chance of success.
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he would seek a special panel to investigate whether political donations influenced President Bill Clinton`s decision to allow exports of satellite technology to China.
KINSHASA - A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sentenced two prominent opponents of President Laurent Kabila to up to 20 years in jail on charges of threatening state security.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. State Department said the day was "not far off" when it might have to announce that it was unable to restart the stalled Middle East peace process.
KAMPALA - Uganda is to release 40 Sudanese prisoners of war captured in northern Uganda last year.
LAGOS - Development of potentially huge oil reserves deep off Nigeria`s shore is being held up by the military government`s delay in finalising terms for prospecting firms.
BEIRUT - Two Israeli warplanes raided suspected targets of the pro-Iranian Hizbollah in south Lebanon.
JERUSALEM - An Israeli cabinet minister said the United States was waging "psychological warfare" to try to get Israel to hand over a further 13 percent of the West Bank to Palestinians.
OUAGADOUGOU - Trades unions in Burkina Faso began a 48-hour strike to protest at civil service reforms which, among other things, introduce the principle of promotions on merit only.
NICOSIA - Joint Greek and Cypriot air defence exercises started on the divided island of Cyprus.
