Indonesia
JAKARTA — A separatist mob attacked a police station in troubled Irian Jaya province and killed two officers with machetes, axes and arrows, police said.
Austria
SALZBURG — Lifts on Kitzsteinhorn glacier reopened to skiers, one month after a deadly fire in a cable car tunnel killed 155 people in Austria.
Kuwait
KUWAIT — Kuwait said that it had seized five vessels loaded with goods shipped from former occupier Iraq in violation of U.N. sanctions.
Brazil
BRASILIA — Brazil's left-leaning Workers Party shunned traditional leftist symbols like the sickle and hammer and embraced the Internet as its tool when it launched its own news site on the World Wide Web this week.
Sudan
KHARTOUM — Sudan has arrested seven opposition figures accused of plotting an armed uprising with a U.S. diplomat, a government newspaper reported.
Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN — Ivory Coast marked the seventh anniversary of the death of its founding father under a state of emergency after the deaths of at least 23 people in a wave of political and ethnic violence.
India
NEW DELHI — A guard at the home of India's navy chief shot himself last week and then tried to blame the failed suicide bid on a mythical intruder, the navy said.
SRINAGAR — Separatist guerrillas launched two grenade attacks in India's troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir, wounding 31 people, police said.
Thailand
BANGKOK — Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai testified at a probe into whether he falsified asset declarations, insisting he was innocent and saying he was confident of being cleared of wrongdoing.
Philippines
ZAMBOANGA — The mother of an American held hostage in the southern Philippines has used the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to appeal anew to a Muslim extremist group to free her son.
Turkmenistan
ASHGABAT — Fresh tremors rocked Turkmenistan a day after the central Asian state was hit by a powerful earthquake, but officials said it caused no casualties or significant damage.
Zimbabwe
HARARE — Militants from Zimbabwe's ruling party abducted a white farmer and forced him to drive them to President Robert Mugabe's office during a dispute about land they seized, the union that represents the country's white farmers said.
Yugoslavia
PRISTINA — A U.N. police officer was beaten and an interpreter abducted by Serbs angry at a pre-dawn weapons raid in the northern Kosovo town of Kosovska Mitrovica, a U.N. spokesman said.
Israel
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday denied persistent media reports that he is negotiating a backroom deal with three religious parties that would help him put off early elections, now tentatively set for spring.
Australia
SYDNEY — The nearly 10-year life of a government body guiding reconciliation with Aborigines drew to a close with recommendations that a treaty be signed and referendum be held on giving indigenous people special recognition in the constitution.
Spain
BARCELONA — Princess Cristina, the second daughter of Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, has given birth to a boy, her second child and the royal couple's fourth grandchild, the royal palace said.
Sri Lanka
COLOMBO — Four people were killed in a suspected Tamil Tiger rebel attack on a small village in eastern Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said.