India
NEW DELHI - The official death toll from a June 9 cyclone in western India's Gujarat state has reached 1,126, United News of India reported.
Russia
MOSCOW - An ammunition dump fire killed at least 12 people in central Russia, Interfax news agency reported.
MOSCOW - A dozen coal miners protesting against unpaid wages broke into the lower house of parliament and banged their helmets against the floor and walls demanding President Boris Yeltsin's resignation.
Lebanon
BEIRUT - A bomb exploded in a moving car east of the capital, killing two people inside, police officials said.
Azerbaijan
BAKU - The government dismissed as an empty threat Armenia's plan to annex formally the breakaway Azeri region of Nagorno-Karabakh if Baku fails to compromise in a decade-old dispute over the territory.
Turkey
ANKARA - The military is planning to hold naval exercises near its western border with Greece as tensions rise on the divided island of Cyprus, a Turkish newspaper said.
Denmark
COPENHAGEN - An Air Europe Boeing 737 charter plane hit by hydraulic problems on its way to Malaga in Spain from Oslo landed safely at Copenhagen's Kastrup airport, an airport official said.
Cambodia
PHNOM PENH - The country's three main opposition parties said conditions were not in place for a July 26 election to be free and fair, warning they might not take part without improvements.
South Korea
SEOUL - The unification ministry said it would allow talks with North Korea on a civilian basis for a so-called unification festival proposed by Pyong-yang earlier this week.
Myanmar
YANGON - Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated her 53rd birthday Friday, with her opposition National League for Democracy party defiantly declaring it Myanmar Women's Day.
Indonesia
JAKARTA - U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers is expected to visit this weekend for talks with Indonesian officials next week.
India
NEW DELHI - The government said it regretted economic sanctions imposed by the United States after its June nuclear tests and said such "coercive measures" were unjustified and counter-productive.
Thailand
BANGKOK - The government said it plans to set up a land-mine clearing center to sweep out millions of mines laid in the past by warring factions along the borders with Cambodia and Malaysia. But because of its economic crisis, it was seeking financial assistance and expertise from the world community to execute the plan.
China
BEIJING - Floods across central and eastern China over the past week have killed 63 people, affected millions and engulfed houses, livestock and farms, the China Daily said.
Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez arrived in Haiti on a visit aimed at improving relations between the two countries, which share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.