CAMBODIA Hun Sen and his ousted co-Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh jointly call a ceasefire to end seven months of hostilities and open the way for elections.

YUGOSLAVIA Tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians gather to bury 24 villagers killed by Serb police in the province of Kosovo. Russia joins the US, Britain, Germany, France and Italy in backing an arms embargo against Yugoslavia to punish President Slobodan Milosevic for his repression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

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The campaign to get rid of landmines in countries such as Laos got a boost from Britain.

UGANDA Former dictator Idi Amin is banished from Died in Saudi Arabia to isolated Mecca after organizing a shipment of arms to northern Uganda.

CHINA Zhu Rongji is appointed as China’s first new Prime Minister in ten years. He is expected to set about bringing in the most sweeping structural reorganization of China’s inefficient government bureaucracies since Deng Xiaoping launched his reforms 20 years ago.

NEPAL Over 3,000 protesters march through Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, demanding an end to child labour in the country. The demonstration is seen as part of a global drive to highlight the state of the world’s 250 million child workers.

ISRAEL Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is called on to abandon his policy of expanding Jewish settlements on Palestinian territory behind the ‘Green Line’ pre-1967 border. (See special feature : Middle East)

CHILE General Augusto Pinochet – the ex-military dictator who had thousands of political opponents tortured and murdered – is sworn in as senator-for-life under the terms of a constitution he designed himself. As senator he will enjoy parliamentary immunity for life, despite opposition to the move in Parliament, in the courts and on the streets of Santiago. (See special feature : International justice)

INDIA’s first Hindu nationalist Government, a coalition of more than a dozen regional parties and several independent MPs led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is sworn in. A BJP-led alliance won most of the seats – but fell short of a majority – in general elections in February.

SEYCHELLES Albert René and his Seychelles People’s Progressive Front win the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections.

WORLD Alarmed by the global rise in tuberculosis, the World Health Organization reports that 16 countries are threatened by major epidemics of the disease.

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