SIERRA LEONE
FREETOWN -- Nigerian military jets destroyed a Sierra Leonean rebel base in four days of bombing raids, killing at least 70 fighters and capturing a swath of rebel-held territory, military officers said Friday.LEBANON
NABATIYEH -- Israeli warplanes attacked suspected guerrilla positions in south Lebanon for a second day Friday, Lebanese security officials said.
UKRAINE
KIEV -- A Ukranian serial killer, who confessed to murdering 52 people, told his trial Friday he had already turned from a human being into "a beast of Satan" and normal people would not understand him.
PANAMA
PANAMA CITY -- Thousands of demonstrators clashed with police Friday during angry anti-government protests triggered by a date change for the Mothers' Day holiday and new privatization plans, witnesses and radio reports said.
ITALY
NAPLES -- Naples' narrow alleyways have gotten so crowded with tourists and shoppers at Christmas that the city has decided to post one-way signs for pedestrians.
ETHIOPIA
ADDIS ABABA -- The government began a polio immunization campaign, saying it hopes to give the vaccine to 8 million children under 5 years old.
ZAMBIA
LUSAKA -- Sharp differences emerged Friday as the Zambian government held talks with opposition groups for the first time since a 1997 coup attempt.
NEPAL
KATMANDU -- Police shot and killed at least 10 rebels who were trying to disrupt election campaigns in central Nepal, police said.
JAPAN
TOKYO -- Two shoppers have found sewing needles in bread bought at a Japanese supermarket, and police said Friday they suspect the needles are part of an extortion attempt.
PAKISTAN
ISLAMABAD -- Uneasy neighbors Pakistan and India signed an agreement Friday to start bus service across their border.
TAIWAN
TAIPEI -- The politicians who run Taiwan hope to rebuild support and wipe away hints of corruption Saturday with a candidate who calls himself squeaky clean -- though he freely admits spending too much money on the campaign.
ARGENTINA
BUENOS AIRES -- Argentina's Supreme Court charged an Iranian woman Friday in the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires.
TURKEY
ANKARA -- The Turkish premier-designate's chances of forming a coalition without the country's Islamic party dimmed Friday after the party of a former prime minister refused to join any coalition with a bitter rival.
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA -- Swiss authorities charged former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko on Friday in a money laundering scheme.
COLOMBIA
CARTAGENA -- In one of the largest cocaine busts in Colombia, police have seized at least six tons of cocaine in a maritime warehouse in the Caribbean port city of Cartagena.
CZECH REPUBLIC
PRAGUE -- More than 100 activists are pressuring the government to demolish a pig farm on the site of a World War II concentration camp for Gypsies, the CTK news agency reported Friday.