The European Union has decided to hold off temporarily on imposing sanctions on more Russians and Ukrainian separatists and await the outcome of possible peace talks later this week.

Indonesia has executed six people, five of them foreigners, for drug trafficking despite international appeals to spare them.

Ivorian government forces vowed to hunt down those responsible for an ambush that killed at least seven United Nations peacekeepers as Liberia sealed its border amid fears that the gunmen had used the country to stage the attack.

Armed men ambushed and killed seven United Nations peacekeepers trying to protect villagers in Ivory Coast.

Western leaders have attacked Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe’s presence at a UN summit on hunger given his role in leading his own country toward starvation.

US President George Bush today seemed resigned to the possibility that World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz could lose his job over conflict-of-interest charges involving his girlfriend.