WORLD IN BRIEF

Palestinian Teen Killed In West Bank Standoff

NABLUS, West Bank -- Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen traded fire during a standoff at a fugitives' hideout, and doctors said a 16-year-old Palestinian was killed.

Twenty Palestinians were wounded in the clashes in the West Bank city of Nablus, the doctors said. The standoff began early Saturday when Israeli troops surrounded a four-story building where the army said two Palestinian fugitives were hiding. The militants are believed to be explosives experts with al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Fatah.

In Gaza City, a 72-hour deadline set by a militant group holding two Fox news journalists passed with no new information on their fate.

Early Sunday, two missiles fired by Israeli aircraft hit an armored car belonging to the Reuters news agency, wounding two television cameramen and three bystanders, Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials said. The car had "Press" written on it in English, Arabic and Hebrew. The Israeli army said it did not realize the car's passengers were journalists and only attacked because the vehicle was driving in a suspicious manner near Israeli troops in a combat zone.

A Hamas militant was killed in a separate raid, hospital officials said.

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AFRICA

· KAMPALA, Uganda -- The government and Lord's Resistance Army rebels agreed to a truce Saturday aimed at bringing an end to a brutal 19-year conflict, officials said.

· KHARTOUM, Sudan -- An American journalist appeared in court in Darfur on charges of espionage and entering the country illegally, his lawyers and other sources said. Paul Salopek, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune on assignment for National Geographic magazine, was arrested with two Chadians Aug. 6, the Tribune said.

· ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- A military truck carrying U.N. peacekeepers crashed in Ivory Coast, killing six Bangladeshi troops and injuring 11 others, U.N. officials said.

ASIA

· KABUL, Afghanistan -- A coalition airstrike in southern Afghanistan killed a Taliban commander and 15 other militants, the U.S. military said. Also, Canadian troops mistakenly killed a policeman and wounded six other people, NATO said.