Bosnian war generals surrender to UN court
NETHERLANDS
Bosnian war generals surrender to UN court
THE HAGUE -- Two generals from opposite sides of the Bosnian war, a Muslim and a Serb, surrendered to the UN war crimes tribunal yesterday to answer charges they were responsible for atrocities. General Rasim Delic, the former head of the Muslim-dominated Bosnian army, commanded troops who allegedly murdered and tortured Croat civilians. General Radivoj Miletic faces charges related to the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslims in Srebrenica. (AP)
JAPAN
Space agency aspires to build base on moon
TOKYO -- Japan plans to start building a manned base on the moon and a space shuttle within the next 20 years. Japan's space agency, JAXA, hopes to develop a robot to conduct probes on the moon by 2015, then begin constructing a solar-powered manned research base on the moon and designing a reusable manned space vessel like the US space shuttle by 2025, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper said. (AP)
RUSSIA
Supply-packed craft heads to space station
MOSCOW -- A Russian cargo ship blasted off yesterday for the international space station, carrying food, equipment, and other supplies. The unmanned Progress M-52 spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft, which is set to dock with the station tomorrow, carries about 3 tons of food, water, fuel, and research equipment for Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and US astronaut Leroy Chiao, who have been on the station since October. (AP)
IVORY COAST
Violence erupts, breaks three-month cease-fire
ABIDJAN -- Violence erupted between government fighters and rebels yesterday, shattering a cease-fire that had held for three months and prompting rebels to declare the divided country's stalled peace process dead. About 70 progovernment fighters attacked a checkpoint in the rebel-held north near the village of Logouale, and the insurgents fled. Several rebels were wounded, but no deaths were reported. (AP)
BURUNDI
Voters head to polls for Hutu-Tutsi proposal
BUJUMBURA -- Burundians flocked to vote in the country's first democratic voting in 12 years yesterday, a constitutional referendum to prepare for elections to build an ethnically balanced government from the ruins of civil war. The constitution would create power-sharing between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority, which has dominated politics and the military in the tiny central African nation since independence from Belgium in 1962. (Reuters)
HAITI
Police fire into crowd, killing 3 protesters
PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Three people were killed yesterday when Haitian police opened fire on demonstrators protesting the ouster of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide a year ago. Chanting ''Aristide for life," thousands of protesters marched in the Bel-Air slum to demand the return of the exiled president, who fled Haiti on Feb. 29 in the face of a rebellion by street gangs and former soldiers and under pressure from the United States and France. (Reuters)
VIETNAM
Garbage collector found to have bird flu
HANOI -- A 35-year-old woman who works as a garbage collector in Hanoi is the fourth person to be confirmed with bird flu in the past week, Vietnamese health officials said today. The three earlier, including one death, were all from Vietnam's northern Thai Binh Province. The woman in the latest case was the first person to be infected in Hanoi since September. (AP)
