AMSTERDAM - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was denied landing permission at Rotterdam airport on Sunday evening.
JAKARTA - Hundreds of pro-independence demonstrators protested in the capital of East Timor on Monday amid charges that pro-Jakarta gangs are stockpiling guns and killing youths who refuse to join them.
WASHINGTON - President Bill Clinton will send the Republican-controlled Congress a $1.77 trillion U.S. fiscal 2000 budget on Monday that forecasts a $117 billion surplus.
PRISTINA, Serbia - Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo joined on Sunday in urging their leaders to stop feuding among themselves and form a united front for peace talks with the Serbian authorities.
LONDON - Britain is preparing plans to send up to 8,000 troops, along with tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery, to Yugoslavia‘s Kosovo province to underpin any peace deal reached by warring Serbs and ethnic Albanians.
BANGKOK - Three senior Thai government ministers easily beat off an opposition no-confidence motion against them on Monday after three days of heated debate.
HANOI - Corruption within Vietnam‘s ruling Communist Party has come under the spotlight during the second session of a secretive party meeting.
COLOMBO - Fears of attacks by Tamil Tiger rebels have forced Sri Lanka to intensify security in the capital Colombo ahead of independence day celebrations planned for later in the week.
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil‘s government, meeting with the International Monetary Fund on Monday as it battles its worst economic crisis in years, faced a credibility test as the popularity of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso hit an all-time low.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary William Cohen is seeking creation of a permanent task force to coordinate the military‘s response to a domestic chemical or biological attack.
ARMENIA, Colombia - Thousands of Colombians poured out of this provincial capital on Sunday hoping to leave behind the destruction and violence caused by last week‘s killer earthquake.
ADEN - The trial of six suspected Moslem militants resumed on Monday in Yemen where tribesmen kidnapped and later released a British man working for a U.S. oil company.
JERUSALEM - Palestinians angry at missing a peace deadline asked the United States and Europe on Sunday to force Israel to implement their Wye River land-for-security deal.
WARRI, Nigeria - Up to five people died in clashes between youths and security forces near Royal Dutch/ Shell‘s Forcados oil export terminal in southern Nigeria.
KINSHASA - President Laurent Kabila signed a decree on Sunday allowing political activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but only for parties whose leaders were able to satisfy a long list of criteria.
LONDON - The Iranian opposition group Mujahideen Khalq said its members had attacked the headquarters of the Intelligence Ministry in Tehran with mortars on Sunday.
DAVOS, Switzerland - Bank of France Governor Jean-Claude Trichet said he saw no imminent danger of deflation in Europe and believed the right elements were in place for further growth.
WASHINGTON - A chimpanzee named Marilyn has helped confirm that the AIDS virus first passed into people from chimps.
BEIJING - China‘s Communist Party has proposed landmark amendments to the constitution that would enshrine a key role for private enterprise and the rule of law.
COLOMBO - Nearly 50 Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed or wounded in fresh clashes between government troops and the guerrillas in Sri Lanka‘s north and east.
MELBOURNE - About 120 firefighters and six aircraft were battling to contain a massive bushfire on Sunday before forecast hot winds could push it towards rural communities in Australia‘s southeast.
