ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - The U.N. Security Council imposed an immediate arms embargo on Ivory Coast's hard-line government after its violent confrontation with France, drawing bitter accusations here today that the world was siding with Ivory Coast's former colonial ruler.

The Security Council's resolution Monday also said that further sanctions, including a travel ban and an asset freeze, could be imposed if the peace process with northern rebels isn't back on track within a month.

President Laurent Gbagbo's government said it would respect the embargo.

BERLIN - A small spacecraft has made it into lunar orbit, signaling Europe's first successful mission to the moon and paving the way for the craft to be used to study the lunar surface, a European Space Agency spokesman said Tuesday.The SMART-1 probe made it to within 3,100 miles from the moon Monday morning, and will now begin spinning its way closer to the surface as it orbits, said ESA spokesman Franco Bonacina from the space agency's headquarters in Paris.By mid-January the dishwasher-sized spacecraft will be in an elliptical orbit that will take it within 185 miles of the moon's south pole and 1,850 miles from the north pole, Bonacina said.Over the last 13 months, the 809-pound probe has been puttering toward the moon. To reach the lunar orbit, it used only 130 pounds of the 181 pounds of xenon fuel it had aboard - less than expected and a feat that has raised hopes the technology can be used to send other craft longer distances.

PARIS - France's foreign minister indicated today that his country has no intention of publishing Yasser Arafat's medical records and will leave the decision about what to do with them up to his family.Michel Barnier's comment came shortly after Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia formally requested that France publish Arafat's medical records.Arafat died at the age of 75 last week in a French hospital, where he was taken Oct. 29 for treatment after his health deteriorated. Neither Palestinian officials nor Arafat's French medical team have announced the cause of death.Asked if Paris would suggest to Arafat's wife, Suha, that she make the medical report public, Barnier replied: "The family of Yasser Arafat has the right to do as it wishes."