Bosnia-Herzegovina
SREBRENICA — Thousands of Bosnian Serbs mourned their dead from the 1990s Srebrenica violence on Tuesday, a day after their Bosnian Muslim wartime enemies marked the 10th anniversary of Europe's worst massacre of civilians since World War II. Serbs claim that more than 3,000 of their own died in clashes with Srebrenica Muslims during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Costa Rica
SAN JOSE — A pre-dawn fire swept the top floors of a hospital in Costa Rica's capital Tuesday, killing at least 18 people as it engulfed the central staircase of a building without adequate fire exits or a sprinkler system. Medical personnel smashed their way through windows as they tried to help patients escape, while some of the sick fled on their own. People could be seen on live television climbing onto ledges of the five-story building or tying bed sheets to window frames to lower themselves to safety.
Egypt
CAIRO — An Islamic militant convicted in connection with the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was ordered released from prison Tuesday after a court ruled he had completed his sentence. Tarek el-Zomor, 45, should have been released in October 2003 after serving 22 years for his part in plotting Sadat's killing during a military parade in Cairo, the court said in a verdict issued Tuesday.
France
PARIS — Gustaf Sobin, an American-born poet and author of a critically acclaimed novel about the art of truffle-hunting in the Provence region of southern France, has died of pancreatic cancer, his wife said Tuesday. He was 69.
Iran
TEHRAN — Iran's president-elect promised a new approach to the nation's contentious nuclear program, which the United States says is geared toward making bombs. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who won last month's presidential election in a landslide, said his new government will have fresh nuclear policies.
Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN — The United States opened its largest embassy in West Africa in an Abidjan residential area Tuesday, replacing one that had been in the crowded center of the commercial capital. The 235,000-square-foot facility cost more than $90 million and took three years to complete, the embassy said.
Jordan
AMMAN — Prosecutors indicted five Jordanians in an alleged terror conspiracy Tuesday involving plans to attack intelligence agents, tourists and top hotels in the capital, Amman. The officials said the plots were linked to Jordanian fugitive Mohammad Rateb Qteishat, who is believed to be in neighboring Iraq.
Kenya
NAIROBI — A Kenyan-born man who lived for more than a year in Nairobi's airport demanding British citizenship got his wish Tuesday, but British officials said he could have gotten a passport quicker without the vigil. Sanjai Lalji Shah, 42, and about 20 others stood Tuesday for Britain's national anthem and pledged loyalty to his new country in a citizenship ceremony.
Lebanon
BEIRUT — A car bomb blasted the motorcade of Lebanon's outgoing pro-Syrian defense minister Tuesday, wounding him and killing one person in an attack that deepened fears of increasing violence. The assassination attempt against Elias Murr was the latest in a string of bombings.
Netherlands
AMSTERDAM — The Muslim extremist on trial in the slaying of filmmaker Theo van Gogh confessed Tuesday, saying he was driven by religious conviction. "I don't feel your pain," he told the victim's mother. Mohammed Bouyeri stunned the courtroom when, in the final minutes of his two-day trial he declared: "If I were released and would have the chance to do it again, I would do exactly the same thing."
Northern Ireland
BELFAST — Militant Catholics attacked riot police with homemade grenades and gasoline bombs Tuesday in an explosion of fury over the Orange Order, a Protestant brotherhood that staged mass parades across Northern Ireland. About 40 officers and two journalists were wounded when Catholics from Ardoyne, an Irish Republican Army power base in north Belfast, hurled at least two of the grenades into columns of riot police.