ZIMBABWE
HARARE -- A Zimbabwean court on Friday ordered authorities to arrange a lineup of about 20 police and security agents for three arrested Americans who claim they were tortured while in custody.NORTHERN IRELAND
BELFAST -- Warning that it "would be criminal" to let Northern Ireland's peace agreement unravel, the province's British governor said Friday she will convene Protestant and Catholic politicians next week to try to form a new government.
UNITED NATIONS
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council said Friday it supported the secretary-general's proposal for an independent inquiry into U.N. actions before and during Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
CHILE
SANTIAGO -- Chilean officials sought Friday to undermine a key criminal charge against former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet, saying his alleged torture victim was a suspect in an armed robbery who committed suicide in police custody.
RUSSIA
MOSCOW -- The embattled Russian currency stopped its nosedive Friday, edging up a bit on the eve of crucial talks between Russian officials and the chief of the International Monetary Fund.
MOSCOW -- Russia's prime minister on Friday failed to convince parliamentary leaders to put off a scheduled impeachment debate on President Boris Yeltsin in light of NATO airstrikes on Yugoslavia.
AFGHANISTAN
KABUL -- Afghanistan's Taliban religious army released 119 prisoners Friday to mark one of Islam's holiest days.
HAITI
PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Haiti's leader formally installed a new government Friday -- and even admitted that he used "abnormal" means to do it -- and lawmakers promised speedy elections to resolve the country's two-year crisis.
FRANCE
PARIS -- A French court dismissed a defamation suit Friday brought by convicted war criminal Maurice Papon against an author who accused him of ordering the deaths of Algerian protesters in 1961.
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA -- Chinese President Jiang Zemin, suppressing his fury at political protests, toured picturesque Alpine villages Friday, leaving his Swiss hosts to fret about their future relations with China.
GERMANY
BONN -- A bus carrying 60 Dutch schoolchildren and 16 chaperones crashed near the German town of Wiesbaden Friday, killing two children and injuring 20, police said.
PORTUGAL
LISBON -- Portugal's main opposition leader, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa of the Social Democrats (PSD), offered his resignation Friday night, blaming himself for the failure of an alliance with the small right-wing Popular Party.
CONGO
KINSHASA -- Two exiled former allies of Mobutu Sese Seko arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Friday in a rare visit since they were toppled with the late dictator in 1997, witnesses said.
ROMANIA
BUCHAREST -- Romanian Prime Minister Radu Vasile was admitted to hospital Friday after being taken ill with angina at government headquarters, his office said.