The attack reinforced a head of international pressure building up for the swift extradition of Dr Karazdic to the court which has indicted him twice. Germany's Foreign Minister, Klaus Kinkel, and NATO's Secretary General, Javier Solana, separately met the Serbian President, Slobodan Milosevic, in Belgrade to demand the surrender of the Bosnian Serb war leader Reuter. Prodi named Italy's premier-designate Rome - Romano Prodi, an economist who led a centre-left coalition to election victory, was named prime minister-designate and asked to form Italy's 55th post-war government yesterday Mr Prodi could announce his cabinet choices this weekend The government then must be approved by parliament. China said its measures would go into effect "the day" Washington decided to proceed with its threatened tariff hikes on $2bn (pounds 1.4bn) worth of Chinese products, announced this week in protest at Peking's failure to honour an copyright anti-piracy pact agreed last year.. China raises stakes in trade row with US Peking - China has raised the stakes in its tit-for-tat trade row with the United States by threatening to halt approvals for US companies wanting to set up branches, representative offices and joint ventures on the mainland, writes Tess Poole. This would be in addition to a Chinese package of punitive tariffs which would be imposed on a range of US imports. The BJP is trying to rope in the smaller regional parties by offering greater autonomy to the Indian states.If Mr Vajpayee cannot stitch together a majority, it will be the leftists' turn.. Despite the party's upper-caste Hindu image, a Muslim, an untouchable and a tribal are inside the cabinet.

The sole purpose of the BJP's pared-down cabinet is not to run the country but to round up the necessary MPs to survive a confidence motion on 31 May. All three are trying to scrape together the 270 parliamentary seats needed for a majority.Mr Vajpayee's new cabinet painted a moderate face on the Hindu nationalist party Many of the BJP's reactionaries were passed over. As he read it, the President's shoulders slumped, and a grimace crossed his face. "His death is a great loss," Mr Clinton said.Before being named Chief of Naval Operations, Adm Boorda had been in charge of American forces in southern Europe, and was commander-in-chief of allied forces in the region during the first two years of the Bosnian war.

He took over as the Navy was struggling to recover from the Tailhook sexual harassment affair, and cope with budget cuts. Of late, Adm Boorda had been attacked by some former Navy officials for paying more attention to politicians than the service but there was no sign the criticism had any effect on a man described as gregarious and invariably cheerful.. BJP compromises in quest for power New Delhi - India has a Hindu nationalist government, with the swearing in yesterday of Atal Behari Vajpayee and 11 ministers from his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), writes Tim McGirk. But the right-wing Hindus may only remain in power for two weeks unless they can lure in coalition allies. The latest Indian elections were inconclusive, leaving a three-way tussle between Mr Vajpayee's BJP, the outgoing Congress party and the National Front-Left Front (NF-LF).