15 die in Kashmir bus plunge: At least 15 people were killed and 20 others Injured when a bus In which they were travelling plunged into a gorge in the northern Indian state of Kashmir, police said In Jammu yesterday, AFP reports from Jammu.
The police said the victims were mostly Hindu devotees travelling to a temple in Kashmir's Sarthal village.
Zambian prisons face food crisis: Almost all prisons in Zambia are hit by acute food shortages, a government spokesman revealed Thursday. Xinhua reports from Lusaka.
Auguine Phiri, the spokesman of the prisons department, said in the city of Kabwe that this situation had not been improved since last December.
Yeltsin imprOVing: Russian President Boris Yeltsin is feeling better and is expected to recover from his second recent heart attack. US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said on Thursday, Reuter reports from Washington.
Talbott said his information came in a telephone conversation earlier in the day with Thomas Pickering. US ambassador to Russia, who had been in contact with officials who have visited Yeltsin in hospital in recent days. Fire claims 9 in Germany: nre destroyed a shelter for homeless people in Detmold, . .Qeij^apy, Ttjpijsdpy. killing nine people and leaving 11 I others seriously injured, police said., AFP reports from I IWimM ... -elr- 'luu-
' E>arty indications are that the blaze was started by a cigarette that ignited a mattress on the first floor of the building which housed 25 people, police said.
Jet makes emergency landing: A Jordanian airliner made an emergency landing at an Icelandic airport on Thursday after a bomb threat, police reported. Reuter says from Rejkjavik.
The Royal Jordanian Airlines lockheed, tristar, en route from Amsterdam to Chicago with 224 passengers on board, landed at Keflavik Airport after the pilot was informed of the threat during the flight.
2 die as ferry sinks in Thailand: Two people died and some 50 people were missing after a ferry carrying1 155 passengers, mainly foreign tourists, capsized and sank yesterday in the Gulf of Thailand, marine police said. AFP reports from Bangkok.
Two bodies were pulled out of the water during an operation In which about 100 passengers were rescued, police told AFP by telephone from Surat Thani. 750 kilometres (450 miles) south of Bangkok.
French nun shot dead in Algiers: A French nun was shot and killed and a second was seriously wounded and in a coma in Algiers yesterday, French church sources said In Paris. Reuter reports from Paris.
A spokeswoman for the French bishops conference said the attack took place as the two nuns took a walk through th; capital's hilly Kouba district.
Lubbers won't run for NATO chief: The Netherlands withdrew yesterday the candidacy of former Dutch prime minister Ruud Lubbers for the post of NATO secretary-general after Washington failed to publicly endorse him. AFP reports from the Hague.
Ambassadors from the 16 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation were scheduled to meet in Brussels later in the day to consider a successor to Willy Claes, who resigned last month to face possible corruption charges in his native Belgium.
Myanmar workers kill six Thais: Myanmar workers killed six Thal fishermen at sea on Sunday before escaping with their fishing trawler, Thal marine police sources said yesterday, Reuter reports from Bangkok.