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- President Clinton visits American soldiers in Germany who are among those flying bombing missions in Yugoslavia.
- Diplomats gather in Bonn, Germany, to discuss a peace plan for Kosovo that includes thousands of armed peacekeepers.
- NATO continues hammering Yugoslav military airports, power lines and oil depots. Allied officials say some strikes are abandoned because of bad weather.
- NATO strikes two large fuel depots near the southern city of Nis, sparking a large fire, Serbian media says. Explosions are also heard near Ladjevci in central Serbia and in the central town of Uzice.
- The Hungarian defense minister announces that 24 American F-18 jet fighters will be deployed in Hungary in coming days -- a move that lets NATO planes more quickly reach targets in Yugoslavia.
- 453 Kosovo refugees, the first to arrive in the United States, are greeted by soldiers and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as they arrive at Fort Dix, N.J.
- A Kosovo Albanian leader thought to be under house arrest flies out of Yugoslavia to Rome. Ibrahim Rugova holds talks with Italian Premier Massimo D'Alema and the premier's office says afterward that Rugova "will be able to contribute as a free man'' to the peace effort.
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- Russia and the major Western powers draft a joint plan to end the conflict, including the deployment of an international force to keep the peace after Yugoslav forces withdraw. Neither Milosevic nor his official circle immediately comment on the plan, which makes no reference to a NATO role in Kosovo peacekeeping and stresses the importance of U.N. backing for the operation.
- Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovo's most prominent ethnic Albanian leader, says in Rome a day after being allowed to leave Yugoslavia that he favors an international peacekeeping force. He avoids saying whether he supports the NATO bombing campaign or whether meetings he had with Serb leaders had been held under duress.
- NATO airstrikes on Yugoslavia continue, with Serbian media saying a missile hit a residential area in Novi Sad, Serbia's second largest city, and allied jets struck a chemical plant near the Danube River port of Prahovo in eastern Serbia.
- President Clinton listens to the stories of ethnic Albanian refugees and promises them: "You will go home again in safety and in freedom.'' He says that with Russian agreement on a common approach in Kosovo "a real peace process'' has begun.
- A Pentagon spokesman says the three U.S. soldiers released from Serb captivity had been beaten with rifle butts, kicked and punched by the men who captured them near the Macedonian border. Kenneth Bacon also says the Army has concluded that the three were on the Macedonian side of the border when they were captured, not on the Yugoslav side as the Yugoslav authorities claimed.
- Relief officials and Macedonian leaders square off over how to handle the influx of Kosovo refugees. A day after forcing more than 1,000 people to turn back, Macedonian officials insist the border is open and say they'll follow a new policy of allowing one refugee in for every one taken out. One of the few ethnic Albanians to cross estimates up to 10,000 people caught in the bottleneck.
- A Kosovo refugee gives birth to a 7-pound, 8-ounce baby boy in New Jersey, the day after she was airlifted from the Balkans.
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- NATO said it was hobbling the Yugoslav military after 44 days of allied air strikes, but Serb officials said a hospital and market were also bombed and at least 11 people were killed.
- Yugoslav officials said NATO planes dropped cluster bombs on the crowded outdoor market and a hospital complex that were nowhere near a military target. They said scores were injured in addition to the 11 dead.
- In response, NATO said its aircraft had attacked a radio relay station and an airfield at Nis but it had no indication that bombs also fell on a hospital and a market place. However, NATO was checking the reports.
- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was appointing former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt as a special envoy to help him in the search for a solution to the Kosovo crisis. He also confirmed that a second special envoy, decided last week, was Slovakia's Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan.
- Russian President Boris Yeltsin gave a nod of approval to a newly-agreed international plan for resolving the Kosovo crisis, while his special Balkan envoy prepared for a fresh mission to Belgrade, officials said.
- The Kosovo Liberation Army said it welcomed new proposals for a Kosovo peace deal, announced jointly by Western nations and Russia, which call for an international security presence in the war-torn province.
- NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana said Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic should accept the G8 peace plan or else the alliance would have to impose it.
- General Hugh Shelton, chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, said during a visit to Macedonia that NATO had no immediate plan for a ground attack on Yugoslavia.
- The United Nations refugee agency said Macedonia's border with Yugoslavia was open but that it was extremely concerned as there was no sign of refugees from Kosovo wanting to cross it.
- Serbia plans to organise mass "working brigades'' to reconstruct the country once NATO air strikes end and has drawn up a plan to try to limit unemployment, Serbian media said.
- Yugoslav opposition politicians hit back against accusations by a ruling party that they were traitors for urging an end to the Kosovo war, with one calling the charges "a call for a lynching.''
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- Thousands of Chinese took to the streets of their cities in protest at NATO's attack on China's embassy in Belgrade, stoning U.S. and British embassies, and setting ablaze the house of the U.S. consul-general in the southwestern provincial city of Chengdu.
- The official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said four people were killed at the Chinese embassy and 20 people wounded in the NATO strike. China said three people, including two journalists, were killed and 21 wounded. It said one person was missing.
- U.S. President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair both expressed regret at the missile attack on the embassy, which they said was accidental, but said air strikes on Yugoslav targets would go on.
- Russia's Balkans envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin held talks in Bonn with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, new U.N. envoy Carl Bildt and Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova. But he denied a Yugoslav news agency report that he planned to go on to Belgrade, saying he needed to return to Moscow. Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov to Belgrade, saying he needed to return to Moscow. Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov to cancel a planned three-day visit to Britain.
- The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting and issued a statement after four hours of closed-door talks expressing "shock and concern'' over casualties at the embassy. China and Russia condemned NATO in a subsequent open session.
- Two ethnic Albanian women, one aged 19 and her sister-in-law aged 26, arrived at the Albanian border town of Kukes from Kosovo, saying they had both been raped on Thursday by Serb soldiers, the elder one by three men in front of her children.
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- Thousands of Chise demonstrated outside the US Embassy in Beijing for the second day, venting their fury of the accidental NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Blegrade, Yugoslavia's capital. Protesters also targeted diplomatic compounds for Britain, Germany and Albania.
- NATO apologized again for the embassy bombing but says it will continue the air campaign. Allied jets struck Yugoslav army positions with cluster bombs in western Kosovo, Yugoslavia's official Tanjug news agency reported.
- Russian envoy Victor Chernomyrdin returned to Moscow to tell Russian leaders about "new, very serious developments" in efforts for a political settlement to the Kosovo crisis. He gave no details. He said Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova is ready to go to Belgrade to hold talks with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to end the conflict.
- UN officials tried to persuade refugees to move further into Albania and out of a camp near the border with Kosovo, fearing Serb shelling of the area.
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- China breaks off military ties and other contacts with the United States and demands those responsible for NATO's bombing of its embassy in Yugoslavia be "severely'' punished. Thousands of protesters hurl rocks at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for a third day, with some dragging and kicking a life-size effigy of a U.S. soldier with an American flag on his chest.
- President Clinton apologizes again for the bombing, calling it "an isolated tragic mistake.'' U.S. officials blame it on misinformation from CIA target planners, and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says NATO will give China a full explanation.
- Yugoslavia announces a partial withdrawal of its forces from Kosovo, but gives no indication of how many troops have been withdrawn or how many were left. President Clinton and NATO say the move isn't enough to stop allied bombing, and Albright dismisses it as a "half-measure.''
- About 2,000 angry Kosovo Albanians protest poor refugee camp conditions and the alleged beating of two residents by Macedonian police. Meanwhile, nearly 16,000 new refugees pour into northern Albania, claiming more atrocities by Serb police in the Kosovo cities of Pec and Djakovica.
- NATO forces carry out daylight bombings on several towns in central and western Serbia towns, killing four civilians and smashing a factory in one 20-minute bombardment, Yugoslav media reported.
- Kosovo's most prominent ethnic Albanian leader, Ibrahim Rugova, meets with Pope John Paul II and calls on Yugoslavia to accept an international security force so refugees can return home.
- Yugoslavia asks the World Court to stop NATO's airstrikes, claiming the alliance is targeting civilians.
- Russia's envoy in the Yugoslavia crisis, Viktor Chernomyrdin, arrives in Beijing for talks with Chinese leaders.
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- NATO stepped up its bombing of Yugoslavia, ending a lull in the air war since it mistakenly attacked the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade on Friday. It said it saw no sign of any troop pullout from Kosovo, as announced by Yugoslavia, and a partial withdrawal would not be enough.
- China demands that NATO halt the bombing before it will consider backing a peace proposal for Yugoslavia drawn up by seven major Western powers and Russia, Moscow special envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin said.
- Beijing's diplomatic quarter was calm, with no sign of the demonstrators who had besieged the U.S. and British embassies over the past three days.
- Chinese television news aired an apology for the Belgrade mission attack by Bill Clinton, with subtitles, but China's Foreign Ministry avoided saying whether the U.S. president's remarks met Beijing's demand for a formal apology.
- British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook urged China not to veto any settlement in the United Nations Security Council.
- Cook dismissed the offer of a partial Yugoslav troop withdrawal as a cynical gambit. French President Jacques Chirac said only a complete turnaround in Yugoslavia's position on Kosovo would satisfy the West.
- U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata said her agency was running out of cash to deal with the Kosovo crisis and appealed to European governments to shoulder more of the burden. Greece said it would host a refugee conference.
- China failed to win adoption by the Security Council of a statement strongly condemning NATO's missile attack on its Belgrade embassy; the council adjourned with no date set for another round of consultations.
- The 104th Fighter Wing of the Air National Guard in Westfield, Mass., is activated for duty in Kosovo. Two other units are activate in two other states.
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