England
LONDON — The murder of a 10-year-old Nigerian schoolboy on a run-down London housing estate has provoked grief and soul-searching in Britain overlaid with political point-scoring and claims of a crisis in the police.
Iraq
BAGHDAD — Iraq said Sunday it would resume its oil exports to fulfill its existing contracts, backing away from a halt it called two days earlier in a dispute with the United Nations overpricing.
Peru
LIMA — With former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos on the lam, and President Alberto Fujimori chased from office, testimony linking Montesinos to influence peddling, narcotics trafficking and arms dealing is pouring forth like water from a cracking dam.
France
PARIS — An illegal system of financing French political parties is slowly coming to light, and, while parties on the left and right allegedly benefited, the affair is casting a shadow on President Jacques Chirac.
GRENOBLE — Rampaging youths upset by a brutal weekend killing burned 26 vehicles overnight in a working-class neighborhood of Grenoble, local officials said Monday.
Russia
ST. PETERSBURG — A city official was seriously injured on Monday when an explosive attached to his car went off, police said. Sergei Alyoshin, a district deputy head in the northern port city, was driving away from his home when the blast occurred, said Igor Udimov, spokesman for the St. Petersburg office of the Interior Ministry.
Congo
NAIROBI — Renewed fighting in southern Congo has driven more than 10,000 refugees into northern Zambia in less than two days, a U.N. refugee agency official said Monday.
Germany
BERLIN — A furniture-shop owner should be charged with breaking Germany's anti-Nazi laws for naming chairs and sofas after Adolf Hitler and other Third Reich leaders, a local Jewish community leader said on Monday.
Switzerland
GENEVA — Anti-land mine campaigners marked Monday's third anniversary of the signing of a global treaty to ban the weapons with a call on 54 governments to drop their "excuses" for staying out of the accord.
Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN — At least one person was killed in protests in Ivory Coast on Monday when supporters of Muslim former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara staged street demonstrations over a ban on his running for parliament, a minister said.
Iran
TEHRAN, — Iran's Revolutionary Court has filed fresh dissent charges against two leading reformers, both already on trial for allegedly violating state security during an overseas conference, a reformist newspaper said on Monday.
Cambodia
PHNOM PENH — A Cambodian court on Monday charged seven people with terrorism and forming an illegal armed group, bringing to 49 the number to be tried in connection with a bloody shootout in the capital last month, an official said.
Australia
SYDNEY — A 2-year-old boy died Monday after thieves stole the car in which he had been left, then abandoned it when they realized he was aboard, authorities said. The toddler died from a heart attack triggered by heat stress after spending more than two hours alone in the car, ambulance officers said.
Pakistan
ISLAMABAD — The United States donated 60,000 tons of wheat to feed poor Afghans who are devastated by the worst drought in 30 years, the World Food Program said Monday.
Papua New Guinea
SYDNEY — Papua New Guinea has stepped up border controls following recent violence between security forces and separatists in the neighboring Indonesian province of Irian Jaya, Prime Minister Mekere Morauta said Monday.