Gunmen kill 5 in Angolan mine Five people were killed and four were taken hostage in a predawn attack by dozens of armed men on a Canadian owned mine in northeastern Angola, the mine operators said on Monday. AFP reports from London.

Two Britons, the mine manager and a director, were killed as well as a Portuguese and two Angolans, the company's spokesman Michael Gunberg said.

Cambodia bans newspaper: tk Cambodian government handed down a suspension order Tuesday to a newspaper calling for King Norodom Sihanouk to stand trial for crimes against humanity. AP reports from Phnom Penh.

Khieu Kanharith, secretary of state for the Information Ministry, signed the order suspending the National Salvation newspaper because it violated a constitutional provision stipu- • lating that the Cambodian monarch is inviolable.

Bus mishap kills 21 in Bogota: At™ flipped off a rural bridge and into a stream on Monday, killing 21 passengers, the majority of them children on their way to classes, police and rescue workers said, AP says from Bogota.

The accident, which occurred at 7:45 am near Suarez. 335 • km southwest of Bogota, could have been caused by brake failure, a blown out tire or reckless driving, fireman's spokesman Lt. Eduardo Salinas told The Associated Press.

US to seek access to DPRK site The US State Department said Monday it will demand access to an underground facility suspected of being a site for development of nuclear weapons. AP says from Washington.

Spokesman James P Rubin said verbal assurances from North Korea that the facility has no military purpose are not enough. Hours before Rubin spoke, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said, in reference to the US request, that it will not accept any "Interventionist move" by the United States. Indian tribe approves historic treaty: Indians of British Columbia's Nisga' a tribe have approved a historic treaty that would fulfill their century-old quest for self-government in a remote valley near the southern tip of Alaska, AP reports from Vancouver.

Tribal leaaers announced the outcome of a two-day referendum on Monday, saying there was a clear majority in favour of the treaty even though the tallying process was not quite complete.

4 Hamas members held in Israel: Four members of the hardline Palestinian group Hamas have been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of an ultra-orthodox French Israeli in Jerusalem in February. Israeli police said Monday. AFP reports from Jerusalem.

The four, who are from east Jerusalem, admitted stabbing the man to death In Rekhes Shuafat. a Jewish enclave In the northeast of the city, the police said.