For the second night angry mobs hurl stones at the US embassy in Peking

For the second night, angry mobs hurl stones at the US embassy in Peking. MONDAY 10 MAYNato dismisses Serbia's offer to withdraw some troops from Kosovo as a crude ploy. Tony Blair attacks the media, accusing them of focusing on mistakes while ignoring the plight of refugees.TUESDAY 11 MAYThe 50th day of the conflict. Refugees continue to pour across the Albanian border, and UNHCR accepts Kosovar Albanians are likely to spend next winter in makeshift camps.WEDNESDAY 12 MAYBoris Yeltsin sacks his Prime Minister, Yevgeny Primakov, and the cabinet, posing fresh doubts over Russia's ability to broker a diplomatic solution. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, visits China, saying Peking may accept, as an outline for negotiation, the peace proposal formulated at last week's G8 summit.THURSDAY 13 MAYGreen Party delegates avert a threat to bring down Germany's "Red-Green" coalition, backing their leader, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. Russian foreign ministers tell US Deputy Secretary of State, Strobe Talbott, that the Kremlin would make "serious changes" to its position if Nato bombing does not stop.FRIDAY 14 MAYYet another Nato catastrophe. Serbia accuses the alliance of killing up to 100 civilians in the Kosovan village of Korisa in overnight raids: the worst case of "collateral damage" since the campaign began. The Foreign Ministry in Moscow describes it as "another Nato war crime".SATURDAY 15 MAYAt the end of the worst week for Nato, the alliance is forced to admit that it bombed Korisa, but says it was an important command centre with heavy weaponry and was, therefore, a "legitimate military target"..

Tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians, mostly women, children and old men, are roaming the hills and mountains of southern Kosovo, facing starvation if they cannot reach the Albanian or Macedonian borders soon, exhausted refugees said here yesterday. Solving a mystery that had worried aid workers and governments, about 100 Kosovar Albanians walked across the Macedonian border here yesterday morning, the first large group to arrive in the area in 10 days. They said they were among up to 40,000 refugees who had been wandering the hills for six weeks, with little or nothing to eat, after being driven from their homes. Not only were the police and military continuing their "ethnic cleansing" policy, they said, but Serbian villagers were assisting the policy by trying to starve out the Albanians. "For the first few weeks, we managed at least to get bread, but for days we have not even had that," one old woman said as she staggered the few hundred yards from the General Jankovic railway station inside the Kosovo border to the Macedonian checkpoint at Blace.

"There are still Serbian food shops open in southern villages but they turned us away and refused to sell us flour, sugar or rice. They said `If you want to eat, go to Albania or to your Nato friends'."The refugees explained that they had heard after 5 May that the Macedonian border was closed. They also feared passing Serb police, military and paramilitary roadblocks where many men had previously been separated from their families and disappeared. After word spread yesterday that refugees could get into Macedonia without identity documents - the Serbs took their documents, money and valuables - thousands more were likely to come down from the hills and cross over in coming days, they said.Ron Redmond, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said one refugee woman had told him she saw her husband and nephew shot before she boarded a train yesterday in the Kosovan town of Urosevac, about 20 miles north of here. The Serbs had also insisted every refugee pay for their train ticket, he added. Those who had previously been robbed were unable to board.Like the rest of the group, the old woman was too terrified to give her name.