Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon
ANKARA: Pilot error was blamed after a Ukrainian transport plane crashed near the Turkish city of Trabzon, killing 62 Spanish peacekeepers and a 12-man Ukrainian crew.
BAGHDAD: An attack on US
troops in Baghdad left four soldiers wounded, US commanders on
the scene told AFP.
BOUMERDES, Algeria: Relief operations finally got into high gear
in quake-stricken Algeria as the embattled government promised
a probe into whether corrupt developers should be blamed for hundreds
of deadly building collapses.
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faced down rightwing critics in his Likud party after forcing his government to endorse the Middle East peace roadmap.
SEOUL: Isolated North Korea threatened South Korea with "disaster" for the second time in a week in anger at Seoul's tougher line on the nuclear crisis.
HONG KONG: Dwindling SARS numbers across Asia fuelled hopes the deadly virus was on the run but optimism was tempered as a clutch of new cases in Canada raised the spectre of a possible global resurgence.
TOKYO: Nearly 100 people were injured when a powerful earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale rocked northern Japan.
BUJUMBURA: The main rebel group in the central African state of Burundi threatened to attack an African Union (AU) peacekeeping force deployed there.