China
BEIJING — A gas explosion in a coal mine in northeastern China killed at least 10 miners, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. Rescuers have found 10 bodies, and an 11th miner is missing and feared dead, Xinhua said, quoting an official in charge of rescue work.
England
LONDON — Britain will plant a garden of native American and British flowers to commemorate the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, the government said Tuesday. Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell said the garden, which will feature an oak pergola and a traditional pavilion, will be built near the U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square in the British capital.
India
GAUHATI — Separatist guerrillas ambushed a truck loaded with passengers Tuesday and killed at least 15 people after lining them up on a roadside in India's remote northeast, police said. Twenty-five other people were seriously wounded in the attack in Raksamgiri, a village nearly 250 miles west of Shillong, state police said.
Myanmar
YANGON — Surgeons in northern Myanmar have separated a pair of 1-year-old twins born joined at the hip, and the girls are recovering well, the medical team leader said Tuesday. The twins, born prematurely and underweight in July 2001 at the Mandalay Women's hospital, were separated Sunday in a 14-hour operation, said Dr. Aung Kyi.
Pakistan
KARACHI — A Pakistani court agreed Tuesday to hear appeals from four men seeking to overturn their convictions in the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl — and from prosecutors seeking the death penalty for three who received life sentences. A hearing date has not been set.
Peru
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who is living in exile in Japan, wants to return to his homeland to run again for the presidency, according to an interview published Tuesday in a Japanese newspaper. "In the near future, the Peruvian people will realize that the criminal charges I face are misplaced. In that case, I would like to return and run for election," the disgraced former president told the Mainichi Shimbun. He did not say when he would return.
Russia
MOSCOW — Secretary of State Colin Powell made no progress in discussions with his Russian counterpart in overcoming Moscow's unexplained refusal to grant visas to Peace Corps volunteers, a U.S. Embassy official said Tuesday. U.S. officials are negotiating with the Foreign Ministry and the Education Ministry, but the visa problem — which has forced Washington to cancel plans to send a new batch of volunteers to Russia this year — remains unresolved, said an embassy official.
MAKHACHKALA — A Dutch employee of the international medical aid group Doctors Without Borders was abducted in southern Russia, officials said Tuesday. The Dutch citizen, Arjan Erkel, was seized by three gunmen in the suburbs of Makhachkala late Monday, said Abdul Musayev, spokesman for the Interior Ministry in the Russian republic of Dagestan, which borders on Chechnya.
Switzerland
BERN — The government has refused a side agreement with the United States to keep American soldiers out of reach of a new international war crimes court, the Swiss foreign minister said Tuesday. Joseph Deiss told reporters the accord with Washington would have undermined the authority of the International Criminal Court and the principle of universal justice.
Ukraine
KIEV — Air force commanders failed to give adequate instruction to the pilots of a Ukrainian fighter jet that crashed during an air show in June, killing 85 spectators, the head of the investigation into the crash said Tuesday.
Yemen
SAN'A — A senior U.S. Navy commander held talks with Yemeni officials to discuss the war against terrorism and plans to form a Yemeni coast guard, a U.S. Embassy statement said Monday. Vice Adm. Timothy J. Keating, commander of the U.S. Naval Forces for the Central Command, arrived in Yemen Sunday to talk about several issues, including forming a Yemeni coast guard to protect the impoverished Arab state's 1,500-mile coastline, the statement said.