CAPE TOWN - The United States said it was working closely with South Africa to find and punish bombers who killed two people and injured 27 in Cape Town`s Planet Hollywood restaurant. The attack late on Tuesday was apparently in retaliation for U.S. raids in Afghanistan and Sudan.
TOKYO - Japan`s political opposition faced off against the government, threatening the authorities` plans for a "soft-landing" approach to winding up failed banks and clearing their mountains of bad loans.
WILMINGTON, N.C. - Hurricane Bonnie roared toward North Carolina`s barrier islands as coastal residents braced for widespread coastal flooding, drenching rains and possible tornadoes.
BEIJING - Floods have killed more than 3,000 people across China this year and caused economic losses of 166.6 billion yuan ($20 billion).
WASHINGTON - Sen. Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican who
heads the Senate Judiciary Committee, predicted it could take months before Congress decides whether to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
WASHINGTON - Egypt is holding Abu Nidal, described as "one of the world`s most feared terrorists," in "protective custody".
BELFAST - British Prime Minister Tony Blair defended controversial plans for a massive crackdown on renegade guerrillas in troubled Northern Ireland and insisted the peace process must be pushed forward.
LISBON - The Guinea-Bissau government and army rebels signed an agreement in the Cape Verde islands reaffirming a ceasefireň between the two sides after a military revolt.
PHNOM PENH - Confrontation loomed in Phnom Penh as the opposition refused a government order to move a sit-down protest outside parliament.
BOGOTA - Suspected leftist rebels injured at least 17 civilians in an attack on Tuesday in the same southeast Columbian town where a devastating strike against an anti-narcotics base occurred earlier this month.
TUNIS - Libya prepared to tell the world whether it would send two Libyan suspects in the Lockerbie airliner bombing for trial in the Netherlands.
YANGON - Riot police were stationed across Myanmar`s capital of Yangon after rare student demonstrations in support of the opposition`s vow to call a parliament.
WASHINGTON - A soil sample collected in "recent months" from around a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan showed an ingredient for making deadly VX gas and was a key factor behind the U.S. cruise missile strike.
LONDON - Ten percent of the world`s tree species face extinction through felling, forest fires and poor forest management.
RABAT - A Moroccan court has sentenced four sailors to eight years in jail for transporting illegal immigrants to Spain.
WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund approved a $1 billion loan payment to Indonesia as part of its global rescue package, rewarding President B.J. Habibie for pushing through tough reforms to cope with the country`s worst economic crisis.
JERUSALEM - Inspired by the Cold War movie "The Manchurian Candidate", Israel`s Mossad spy agency tried to brainwash a Palestinian 30 years ago to assassinate Yasser Arafat.
AMMAN - A 27-year-old Jordanian monarchist has gone on hunger strike and says he will continue to go without food until King Hussein returns from chemotherapy in the US.
