CANADA: Canadians lean towards Conservatives
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters): A CANADIAN electorate that appears to have tired of more than a decade of Liberal rule headed to the polls yesterday, seemingly ready to hand a limited mandate to the Conservatives.

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Rebels slay eight Guatemalan United Nations peacekeepers
KINSHASA, Congo (AP): UGANDAN REBELS ambushed Guatemalan special forces soldiers serving with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo yesterday, sparking a gunbattle that left eight Guatemalan troops and 15 attackers dead...

CHILE: Pinochet's wife, children on tax charges
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP): THE WIFE and four grown children of General Augusto Pinochet were indicted and ordered arrested yesterday on charges of tax evasion related to the former dictator's multi-million-dollar accounts at overseas banks...