Liberian bandits kill 27 in Guinea:
Armed bandits from Liberia killed 27 people and wounded seven in a cross-border attack on a refugee camp in southeastern Guinea at the weekend, the United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday. Reuter reports from Geneva
It said the attackers were believed to belong to a Liberian faction known as Ullmo-k and it was considering moving Its camps back from the border, deeper into Guinea.
"Only 18 of the 27 people killed were Liberian refugees The rest were local Guineans. Francis Kpatlnde of the UN High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) told Reuters late In the day.
Peruvian PM resigns: Prime Minister Dante Cordova, who favoured slowng the nation's move toward a free-market economy, resigned Tuesday, prompting the rest of the Cabinet to offer their resignations as a matter of protocol, AP reports from Lima,
President Alberto Fujimori accepted the resignation of Cordova, but did not say If he would replace any other ministers. Cordova s resignation does not necessarily signify a crisis for the government. Peru does not have a parliamentary form of government and the prime minister s post is mostly ceremonial.
Iraqi official visits Moscow: An Iraqi presidential adviser was in Russia for consultations on technological aspects of UN-demanded disarmament of Iraq, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. AP reports from Moscow.
It said the official. Amer Saddy.-met with Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Posuvalyuk. Russia's special envoy for the Middle East, and other ministry representatives last week.
US to promote military help in Albania: US Secretary of defence William Perry said in Tirana. Albania that the US administration will promote its military cooperation with Albania by continuing to provide the country with military assistance, Xinhua reports from Tirana. Albania
Perry, who arrived last Sunday to attend the meeting of defence ministers of southern Balkan countries, made the remarks at a press conference after meeting his Albanian counterpart Safet Zhulali.
Toll in Haiti ferry sinking 100: Scores of bodies were floating off Haiti's southwest peninsula days after a ferry wenl down in the Caribbean, drowning more than 100 people, a UN spokesman said. AP reports from Port Au Prince.
The boat went down in such a remote area that It took days for word to reach the capital. UN military mission members sent to investigate Monday drove until they ran out of road and then walked for 5 1-2 hours. UN sppkesman Eric Fait said Tuesday.
12 militants detained in Egypt: Egyptian police said on Tuesday they had detained 12 membeis of the Muslim brotherhood, the country’s largest Islamic political organisation, for 'threatening Internal security”, Reuter reports from Cairo.
An interior Ministry statement said the men had been in contact with violent militant groups tried to infiltrate unions and universities and set up a brotherhood women’s branch.
The men rounded upon Monday include 34 year-old engineer Abul Ala Madi secretary general of the Islamist dominated engineers association and a founder of the centre party.
Floods claim 1 in Jakarta: Hoods mt Jakarta, for the third time this year, killing one person and submerging thousands of homes, sources said yesterday. AFP reports from Jakarta.
A Jakarta police information officer, who declined to be named told AFP Wednesday that the floods hit mostly south and east Jakarta on Tuesday, but have "subsided considerably yesterday.' A teenage boy in South Jakarta "Who suffered from epilepsy" drowned in a stream Tuesday afternoon, the officer Said.
French minister begins KSA tour:
French Defence Minister Charles MnTon began a visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to discuss military cooperation and arms sales, an official said. AFP reports from Riyadh.
Millon, making his second visit to the oil-rich Gulf kingdom bince October, met his Saudi counterpart prince Sultan ibn Abdel Aziz soon after he arrived to discuss "prospects for French-Saudi cooperation in the military domain."
Fire ruins Nat’l Park in Costa Rica: Costa Rica's largest fire in a decade destroyed more than 8.600 acres (3.500 hectares) of tropical forest in the Guanacaste National Park, firefighters said Tuesday, AP reports from San Jose.
The blaze broke out on Friday, but strong winds and the tropical climate frustrated hundreds of firefighters working to extinguish It over the weekend. By the time they brought the flames under control Monday, the fire had Incinerated nearly one-tenth of the park in northern Costa Rica.