SUDAN

Peace talks between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels have been postponed until December, the spokesman for the government delegation said.

The talks opened Saturday in Sirte, Libya, without the most prominent rebel leaders. In their absence, the talks stalled within a day.

Mediators said they were sending envoys to try to get the other Darfur rebels to join the talks, which could take weeks.

Darfur's main rebel chiefs said they were boycotting because mediators had invited lesser groups, which they said were government stooges.

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Premier resigns over proposal

Bosnian Prime Minister Nikola Spiric, an ethnic Serb, resigned over a proposed parliamentary change.

Miroslav Lajcak, a Slovak diplomat who is the top international administrator in the ethnically divided country, has proposed rules to change the way a quorum is calculated, to make it more difficult for lawmakers to block decisions by not showing up. Serbs fear that could lead to the end of their mini-state within Bosnia-Herzegovina.

INDONESIA

Scientists warn of volcanic eruption

Hundreds of tremors rocked a deadly Indonesian volcano today in signs that a powerful eruption could be imminent, scientists said. The intensity and frequency of the tremors at Mt. Kelud already exceed those in the days preceding the last time it blew its top in 1990, killing more than 30 people.

More than 100,000 people living in areas considered at risk were ordered from their homes when the highest alert level for the peak was declared more than two weeks ago, but many never left or have since returned.

ISRAEL

Assassin can have son's rite in jail

An Israeli court rejected a request by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassin to leave jail to attend his son's circumcision, but said the ceremony could take place in prison.

The infant is to be circumcised Sunday, the 12th anniversary of the Israeli leader's slaying. Yigal Amir, an Orthodox Jew, shot Rabin after a peace rally on Nov. 4, 1995, because he opposed the premier's policy of ceding West Bank land for peace with the Palestinians. Amir was sentenced to life in prison.

Although he is held in isolation, Amir has been permitted conjugal visits over the last year with his wife, Larissa Trimbobler, whom he married by proxy in 2004. The boy was born last weekend, and according to tradition, a healthy Jewish male should be circumcised eight days after his birth.

GUATEMALA

Mob beats, burns to death 3 teens

A crowd of angry residents of San Juan Sacatepequez, Guatemala, beat and then burned to death three teenagers they believed were gang members collecting extortion money, police said.

"They grabbed them in the park and then dragged and beat them for about 10 blocks before burning them alive," officer Elias Rodriguez said.

The youths, one 16 and two 17, went to San Juan Sacatepequez, just outside Guatemala City, from a nearby village to buy film, said Gonzalo Pirir, father of one them.

"My son didn't do anything wrong or rob anyone," Pirir said.

The slayings came two months after residents of the nearby town of Cerro Alto burned two other alleged delinquents to death.

From Times Wire Reports