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NPR's Sunni Khalid reports that Israeli President Ezer Weizman was in Cairo today for talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Weizman refused to criticize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but Mubarak said he would not meet again with Netanyahu until a withdrawal of Israeli troops from Hebron is begun.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports that at a news conference today, Richard Jewell and his attorneys blasted the federal government and the news media. Jewell was the FBI's chief suspect in the Olympic park bombing investigation. On Saturday he received a letter from the government saying he was no longer a target of the investigation.

In Brazil, the government of President Fernando Cardoso is addressing the issue of police violence. In recent years, Brazilian police have killed scores of innocent civilians in the course of their battle against drug dealers and other criminals. But NPR's Nina Teichholz reports the government is facing opposition from a legal establishment that learned its draconian methods of maintaining order during the country's days of military dictatorship.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that America Online is embarking on an expensive promotional campaign and switching stock exchanges in a bid to reposition itself in the face of growing competition. America Online grew to prominence as a NASDAQ stock, but is moving to the New York Stock Exchange as part of a broader campaign to increase public visibility.

- President Clinton announced today he is convening a summit of Middle Eastern leaders in Washington early this week to calm the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting and to put the Middle East peace process back on track. NPR's John Neilsen reports on the political sensitivities surrounding the summit and the rival Israeli and Palestinian concepts of what conssitutes peace.

- Even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he would attend the Washington summit, his government declarted today that they would reopen the controversial archeological tunnel near Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City -- the same tunnel whose opening last week sparked the current round of violence. NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the latests developments on the ground.

Pentagon scientists say they've found evidence of ice at the moon's south pole. The finding means it might be easier to establish human colonies on the moon. But the moon's south pole is a foreboding piece of real estate -- it's perpetually dark and ultra-cold. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

The graduate students who teach half the classes and grade most of the papers at three University of California campuses have been out on strike all week. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports that the strike is aimed at gaining bargaining rights. The University system says these teaching assistants aren't "workers."

NPR's David Welna reports from the Cuban capital, Havana, n signs that communist leader Fidel Castro may be normalizing relations with he Catholic church. Hopes have been raised ever since Castro invited Pope John aul the Second to visit Cuba during their first face to face visit last month n Rome.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that the United States is alarmed at the escalating fighting in the West Bank and Gaza and is calling on all sides in the clashes not to take "unduly provocative action." US officials are surprised at the speed and level of the violence and are afraid it is endangering the Middle East peace process that they thought was slowly moving ahead.