A new president faces crucial tests in charting the future. Expulsion from drug and rights boards reflects rise of Europe, frustrations with American hubris. Afghans who fled the Taliban are stranded at the border. Tajikistan refuses them. John Paul II's visit to the ghost town of Kuneitra is a propaganda victory for Syria over Israel.
Some detainees have U.S. ties.
The Israeli navy said Monday that it had captured a boat loaded with long-range weaponry destined for Palestinian fighters. Two prisoners starved to death, bringing to 22 the number of inmates and relatives who have died in a hunger strike over Turkey's new maximum-security prisons. The Bush administration sent a reconnaissance plane along the coast of China on Monday for the first time since a Navy aircraft collided with a Chinese fighter jet April 1, officials said. No Chinese planes challenged the flight. Macedonian troops battled ethnic Albanian rebels in northern villages and forced guerrillas to retreat across the border into Kosovo.