Spain
SEVILLEDozens of people occupied the Peruvian consulate in Seville Monday to protest the killings of guerrillas who took over the Japanese ambassador's residence in Peru in December. A secretary at the consulate said the takeover was peaceful.
India
NEW DELHI - An outlawed Maoist rebel group shot dead at least eight people in India's eastern state of Bihar on Monday.
Saudi Arabia
DUBAI - Saudi Arabia beheaded a Bahraini man on Monday for smuggling heroin into the kingdom, the Saudi interior ministry said.
France
PARIS - President Jacques Chirac has quietly dropped a self-imposed May deadline for deciding whether France should return to NATO's military command after a 30-year absence, French officials say.
China
BEIJING - Wind, rain and hail pounded China's southwestern Yunnan province last week, and 39 people are feared dead, the Yunnan Daily said Monday.
BEIJING - More than 500 tons of carp were found dead and floating on Moshui Lake in central China, killed by heavy pollution, a Chinese newspaper reported Monday.
BEIJING - China successfully fired a domestic telecommunications satellite into orbit on Monday in a launch as a boost to its space industry and possibly cutting insurance costs after a string of high-profile failures.
Bangladesh
DHAKA - Hundreds of residents in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital, drove away more than 300 prostitutes from a well-known brothel area on Monday, police and witnesses said.
Mexico
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano spewed out red hot rocks and a huge ash cloud late Sunday in one of the most intense eruptions in 14 months, authorities said Monday.
Moldova
CHISINAU - Leaders of Moldova and its separatist Dnestr region, back home from Moscow after signing a memorandum normalizing ties, disagreed Monday in interpreting the deal.
Peru
LIMA - Just days before visiting the United States, Peru's president underwent minor mouth surgery at Lima's National Cancer Institute.
Ireland
DUBLIN - Prime Minister John Bruton says Ireland will hold a national election next month.
Turkey
IZMIR - A firebomb touched off a small fire at an American-run high school that had been named as a target by a militant Islamic group. No one was injured.
Burma
RANGOON - Business leaders have denounced U.S. sanctions against Burma, saying trade and commerce will succeed despite the punishing measures.
Lebanon
MARJAYOUN - Four pro-Israeli militiamen and an Israeli soldier were wounded Monday when guerrillas attacked their outpost in Lebanon.