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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - President Vojislav Kostunica accused Serbia's government on Friday of incompetence and failure to tackle rising crime and corruption, as a dispute within Yugoslavia's new leadership worsened.

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's state-owned oil monopoly, Pemex, fired the first salvo Monday in an expected battle to allow private investment in the oil industry, warning it could face ``collapse'' unless it gets more private money.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Serbs say the 1995 offensive in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica was a liberation of the enclave. Muslims described it as a massacre. On Thursday, the U.N. war crimes court offered another label: genocide.

BERLIN (AP) - Germany's interior minister proposed a new immigration law Friday that would put more pressure on newcomers to integrate and tighten rules for asylum-seekers while trying to lure skilled workers.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Pinch-runner Chad Allen scored from second base while Jacque Jones beat out an infield hit, capping a two-run rally in the 10th inning Friday night that lifted the Minnesota Twins over Kansas City 8-7.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Talks to end Haiti's political crisis broke down Tuesday, with the governing party and opposition unable to agree on which of last year's disputed elections should be rerun.

Notes from last Sunday and Monday in Columbus, Ohio.