LONDON - Britain`s highest court is due to rule on Wednesday whether former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet can be prosecuted for crimes committed during his 17 years of iron-fisted rule.
VIENNA - OPEC oil producers on Tuesday agreed stringent new export limits to end a year-long glut and lift oil prices from one of the biggest slumps on record.
MOSCOW - Russia`s leading business daily bitterly attacked Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov on Wednesday for calling off a visit to the United States for talks with the IMF to protest against imminent NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia.
NICOSIA - One person was killed in a suspected land mine explosion in Cyprus on Wednesday.
JERUSALEM - Hundreds of thousands of Israeli public sector workers walked off their jobs on Wednesday in a crippling strike Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a pre-election attempt to blackmail the government.
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Clinton told Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Tuesday the United States would not change any Middle East policies to help the Palestinians past the May 4 deadline for peace talks.
CAPE TOWN - A South African court on Wednesday sentenced once feted anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak to six years in jail for stealing
foreign donor funds intended for
apartheid victims.
ABUJA - Nigeria has freed a new set of coup plotters after releasing dozens earlier in the month.
BEIJING - A Chinese court ordered the execution of 10 people for murder, selling women and robbery.
SINGAPORE - The violence that has erupted across Indonesia should end in a month and the country can look forward to honest elections on June 7.
PHNOM PENH - Cambodia insisted on Wednesday a trial for Khmer Rouge leaders must be a national affair and that while international assistance would be welcome, foreign lawyers could not act as prosecutors.
NEW YORK - Los Alamos National Laboratory chose Wen Ho Lee, a scientist who was already under investigation as a suspected spy for China, to lead a sensitive nuclear weapons program in 1997.
ASUNCION, Paraguay - Paraguay prepared to bury assassinated Vice President Luis Maria Argana on Wednesday in an atmosphere of growing tension and political chaos.
JOHANNESBURG - A South African court gave a suspended sentence to a white farmer for firing a shot that killed a black baby by a freak ricochet, provoking outrage from the baby`s mother and protesters.
SINGKAWANG, Indonesia - Indonesia`s West Kalimantan was tense on Wednesday after ethnic clashes that have killed at least 165 people, but no fresh violence was reported as hundreds of reinforcement troops arrived.
BELFAST - Three prominent Irish Republican Army guerrillas walked free from jail after a Northern Ireland court rejected a bid by Britain to delay their early release and that of another high-profile IRA prisoner.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to provide up to $40 million to the families of 20 people killed in the Italian Alps last year when a low-flying U.S. Marine jet severed the cable of their ski lift.
The U.S. House of Representatives condemned rights violations in Cuba on Tuesday and urged the Clinton administration to actively mobilize international pressure for political change on the island.
