Lewinsky testimony on, no bombshell expected
The Bill Clinton impeachment trial at the US Senate has entered a crucial phase with prosecutors set to question former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Milosevic won't go to Paris
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic cast doubts over Serbia's willingness to participate in peace talks over Kosovo. He insisted that any peace talks must be held in Serbia and not in Paris, as the international community wishes.

Trial of Laden aides
The biggest ever trial of Islamic activists close to exiled Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden opens in a military court in Cairo on Monday. The case is known as the Albanian affair, after about 20 of the accused were extradited from Albania last summer.

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