• Spectacular eruptions from the volcano on the southern Italian island of Stromboli may cause tidal waves, and all locals and tourists should stay away from the coast, emergency services said. Two big lava flows burst out of Stromboli's side on Tuesday, sending up vast plumes of steam as they plunged into the Mediterranean waters below. Authorities said there was no immediate risk to people living on the island, off the coast of Sicily.

• The US and N. Korea will meet in New York next Monday and Tuesday to discuss the normalization of relations, the US State Department said, but played down expectations of any breakthrough. "I would caution you that this meeting is just a first step. It is an initial conversation," US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters.

• Israeli forces killed two Islamic Jihad leaders and their driver in the occupied West Bank, drawing vows of revenge for the ambush in Jenin. Keeping pressure on militants elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers moved back into Nablus and clamped a curfew on thousands of people, a day after residents said the army had ended a raid - the biggest in months - that began on Saturday.

• Sri Lanka's navy sank a large ship it said was transporting artillery shells for Tamil Tiger rebels and that the blazing vessel and its crew disappeared under the waves after a series of explosions. The incident took place in Sri Lankan waters off the southern coast and away from international shipping lanes, and came after a series of land and sea clashes over the past year that marked a new chapter in the two-decade civil war.

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