A Yemenia Air plane going from the Arabian Peninsula country of Yemen to the island nation of Comoros crashed in the Indian Ocean early today, a Yemen airport official said.

Fighting continued today on the island of Anjouan after troops from Comoros took control of its capital to throw out rebels who have controlled it for the past year.

Explosions and gunfire have resounded in the Indian Ocean nation of Comoros as the government announced it was invading the island of Anjouan to oust a renegade colonel who seized the key island last May.

Former French mercenary Bob Denard and 26 others went on trial in a Paris court for a 1995 coup attempt on the Comoros Islands, which Denard ruled for 11 years.

A volcano erupted on the main island of the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean today, sending thousands of people fleeing from their homes at the urging of the government, officials said.

A ferry which disappeared in a cyclone off Madagascar sank with all but two of its 113 passengers and crew trapped inside.

More than a dozen mysterious hooded men who invaded the smallest island in the Comoros archipelago appear to have been mercenaries.

A dozen hooded men, claiming to be FBI, have landed on the smallest island in the Comoros archipelago off Mozambique