CALCUTTA. Twenty-one tea workers killed in India arson attack. Twenty-one tea garden workers were burned to death in eastern India on Thursday when a mob set a union leader?s house on fire, police said. More than 100 people set ablaze the house in Dalgaon tea estate in West Bengal state following a dispute over the recruitment of clerks, Chayan Mukherjee, inspector general of police, told Reuters. He said 106 people had been arrested and armed police deployed after the incident about 700 km (435 miles) north of Calcutta, the state capital.

INDONESIA. Death toll from floods hits 101. The death toll from a flash flood close to an orangutan reserve in western Indonesia hit 101 people yesterday as the government promised to punish illegal loggers held responsible for the disaster. At least 146 other people are reported missing as a result of the flood Sunday in north Sumatra.

TANZANIA. Rwandan ministers on trial. Four former Rwandan ministers went on trial yesterday charged with playing key roles in 1994 genocide, including buying weapons and inciting the slaughter of about 800,000 people, a court spokesman said. The UN tribunal in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha is keen to show progress in trying former top officials to counter Rwandan government criticism that it has been slow to bring the masterminds of the massacres to justice.