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JOHANNESBURG — The United States pressed fellow U.N. Security Council members Wednesday to impose sanctions to push for change in Zimbabwe, where leaders cannot agree on whether to even talk about how to resolve their crisis amid fears of worsening political violence.

A draft resolution Washington wants the council to consider proposes freezing the financial assets of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and 11 of his officials, and banning them from traveling outside the country.

The text, obtained by The Associated Press, also demands that Mugabe's regime immediately begin negotiations on forming a unity government with the opposition, although Zimbabwe's top opposition leader ruled out talks under current conditions.

MOSCOW — Russian lawmakers on Wednesday approved agreements in which the U.S. will provide aid to help the country dismantle its nuclear, chemical and other weapons.

The lower house of parliament, the State Duma, voted 336-9 with four abstentions to approve two protocols to the 1992 U.S.-Russian agreement on safe transportation, storage and disposal of weapons.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak said the U.S. aid under that agreement has totaled more than $2 billion, and Russia expects to receive another $1 billion through 2013 to help dismantle its aging arsenals.

LONDON — The British Royal Navy ship on which Prince William is serving made a major cocaine bust in the North Atlantic, Britain's defense ministry said Wednesday.

The prince helped his crew mates on HMS Iron Duke intercept a speedboat northeast of Barbados on Saturday. He was aboard a helicopter attached to the frigate that spotted a speedboat and grew suspicious that such a small vessel should be so far from land, the ministry said.

U.S. Coast Guard officials working on the frigate boarded the speedboat and found 45 bales of cocaine weighing 1,900 pounds, the ministry said.

COPENHAGEN — Danish health officials fear that more than 4,000 people may be infected with salmonella and are checking everything from refrigerators to credit card receipts to find the source of what may be the worst outbreak in 15 years.

Kare Moelbak of the Ministry of Health said 330 cases have been confirmed, and about a quarter of those people have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.

He said officials at the government's center for prevention and control of infectious diseases say the real number probably exceeds 4,000 people.

Moelbak said he suspects the source is a Danish food product distributed only in Denmark, because neighboring countries have not reported an outbreak.

WARSAW — The United States and Poland have completed talks on a missile defense installation, but Polish leaders have yet to decide whether to accept a base, the country's chief negotiator said Wednesday.

Deputy Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said he and John Rood, the U.S. undersecretary for arms control and international security, had ended their talks on Washington's proposal to place 10 missile interceptors in Poland after almost 18 months of meetings.

In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman Tom Casey said the negotiations had "pretty much concluded, but there's no deal yet." He would not provide details about any potential U.S. offer, nor would he say when Washington expected an answer from the Poles.

The site, in northern Poland, would be linked to missile-tracking radar that Washington wants to place in the Czech Republic.