In a letter to Clinton, Ms. Bhutto also complained of widespread human rights abuses by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, accusing him of targeting the press, judiciary and her party's supporters. The United States remains committed to imposing retaliatory tariffs on European Union goods because of the EU's refusal to accept hormone-treated North American beef. The announcement from both sides came after two hours of discussions here today. Sergei Stepashin, a Yeltsin loyalist who won easy approval in the lower chamber of parliament Wednesday, said it would take several days for him to form a new government, but that the president would decide appointments. The leaders of Indonesia and Malaysia, East Asia's two largest Muslim countries, met on an Indonesian island today to repair ties strained by politics and the Asian economic crisis.
German law requires stores be closed on Sundays.
Three police officers were injured and two people were arrested today after a second night of sporadic violence in the divided Northern Ireland town of Portadown, police said. Tensions have been mounting in Portadown, a religiously polarized town 30 miles west of Belfast, since the Orange Order Protestant fraternal group was banned last year from marching back from their annual service at Drumcree church via a traditional route along the mainly Catholic Garvaghy Road. Intense talks involving all sides have been continuing to try to resolve the dispute and avoid violence on this year's march July 4. A police spokesman said the officers were not badly injured early today, but did not say if the rioters were Catholics or Protestants.