Iraq
BAGHDAD -- A U.S. plane that crashed in the southern Persian Gulf on Sunday may have been gunned down by Iraqi anti-aircraft systems, the Baghdad press said. The U.S. naval command in Bahrain reported that two airmen were killed when their S-3B Viking crashed after takeoff from the aircraft carrier John F Kennedy. They said the cause of the mishap was being investigated.Israel
MAON, West Bank -- Israeli troops evicted about 100 Bedouins from caves in the West Bank near a Jewish settler outpost that the army demolished last week, a Reuters correspondent at the scene reported.
South Korea
SEOUL -- South Korea's intelligence agency said a North Korean citizen had arrived in the South after defecting through a third country. His motive was still being investigated, it said.
Taiwan
TAIPEI -- Four months after former top official James Soong left the ruling Nationalist Party to launch an independent presidential bid, the Nationalists said they were expelling him from the party.
England
LONDON -- A British Airways passenger jet bound for Vancouver, Canada, was forced to return to Heathrow Airport after a strong odor filled the cabin, the airline said. The aircraft took off again for Vancouver some seven hours after its original departure.
Togo
LONDON -- Amnesty International accused Togo of trying to silence witnesses to human rights violations with threats, intimidation and bribery.
Angola
LUANDA -- Angola's top soldier said government troops could capture or kill UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi soon and bring peace to the oil-and-diamond-rich nation.
Greece
ATHENS -- In attacks possibly linked to President Clinton's scheduled visit later this week, a firebomb exploded at a suburban Greek National Bank branch and arsonists set fire to a local Communist Party office, police said. The incidents caused damage but no injuries.
Yugoslavia
BELGRADE -- Pro-government Serbian media lashed out at opposition leader Vuk Draskovic for agreeing to join other government critics at a European security summit this week.
Argentina
BUENOS AIRES -- Police have arrested the widow and son of late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in a late-night raid on a Buenos Aires apartment, an official said.
Croatia
ZAGREB -- The condition of Croatia's ailing president Franjo Tudjman has stabilized and he is recovering from fresh digestive system surgery undertaken on Sunday, his doctors said.
North Korea
BERLIN -- Talks between North Korea and the United States aimed at improving ties between the two countries resumed at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin.
Iran
TEHRAN -- Authorities have reportedly moved toward easing restrictions on Iran's top dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, under house arrest since 1997 for challenging the country's supreme leader
Vietnam
HANOI -- Disease has struck thousands of Vietnamese in the aftermath of central Vietnam's worst flooding in a century, official media reported.
India
NEW DELHI -- Ranjabati Sircar, an Indian classical dancer whose style was influenced by Western dance forms, has died in Bombay. She was 36. Sircar, who also was called Ranja, was known for an experimental dance called Navanritya, or New Dance.