IRAN
TEHRAN -- Iran and Iraq on Tuesday exchanged the remains of more than 330 soldiers killed in their 1980-88 war, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported.
AUSTRALIA
CANBERRA -- The United States is urging Australia to accept a proposal by an American company to establish a dump for the world's nuclear waste.
SYDNEY -- Tropical Cyclone Thelma buffeted Australia's northern city of Darwin on Tuesday and was upgraded to the most destructive category of tropical storm, with wind gusts at its center of up to 185 mph.
RUSSIA
GROZNY -- Chechen authorities Tuesday found the decapitated heads of four kidnapped foreigners -- three Britons and one New Zealander -- near a remote village after a two-month search in the breakaway region in southern Russia.
MOSCOW -- Officials in Russia's Pacific port city of Vladivostok declared a state of emergency because half the buildings in the city are without heat as temperatures dropped below freezing, a news report said.
CHINA
HONG KONG -- Six Chinese miners survived being trapped in a shaft for four weeks by eating leather belts, sipping water from rocks and burning their safety hats and wooden tools for warmth, a Hong Kong newspaper said Tuesday.
ALGERIA
ALGIERS -- Rescue workers excavating two mass graves near Algiers have found the bodies of 35 people, believed to be victims of Muslim rebels, and are still digging, the newspaper El Watan reported Tuesday.
CYPRUS
NICOSIA -- Final results in north Cypriot general elections confirmed the victory of Dervis Eroglu, a conservative politician who is unlikely to change Turkish Cypriot policy.
SOUTH AFRICA
CAPE TOWN -- South Africa's National Party, which until 1994 denied non-whites the right to vote, has filed a court challenge against new voters registration rules, arguing that they favor the ruling party.
COMOROS
MORONI -- A militia faction has seized control of the capital of the Comoros island of Anjouan where summary executions, looting and burning have followed three days of fierce fighting, diplomats said Tuesday.
NETHERLANDS
ZEIST -- The Netherlands on Tuesday pressed ahead with work to prepare a swatch of British soil on Dutch territory for the anticipated trial of two Libyans accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland 10 years ago.
FRANCE
PARIS -- The price of truffles, the "black diamonds" of French cuisine, has shot up this holiday season after a particularly dry summer led to a smaller than usual harvest.
SPAIN
MADRID -- Seeking to boost donations, a cathedral in Madrid has started taking credit cards. Wooden collection boxes are no more at Almudena Cathedral. In their place are a pair of electronic card processors.
JAPAN
TOKYO -- A homeless man died of a brain hemorrhage Tuesday nearly a month after three teenagers assaulted him as he slept, police said.
GERMANY
BERLIN -- Germany's main governing and opposition parties have united against calls by ex-communists to grant amnesty to former East German officials convicted of crimes under communist rule.