Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo met her detained predecessor Joseph Estrada on Thursday just three days after security forces stopped his supporters storming the presidential palace. Ethnic Albanian rebels killed two Macedonian soldiers on Thursday, hours after President Bush gave his backing to a search for a political solution in the troubled Balkan country. The United States has suspended all military relations with China as Beijing continues to hold a damaged U.S. reconnaissance plane involved in an April 1 collision with a Chinese fighter jet, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. Key opposition figures are arrested as president alleges coup plot. Experts will weigh means of returning spy craft involved in collision.
Envoy ends stint, heads home.
China warned Wednesday of a possible arms race if the United States goes ahead with its controversial missile defense plan but Russia said it was ready for talks on new defense ideas.