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             Russia
                  MOSCOW ? A European security envoy urged Russia and
the world Thursday to do more to resolve what he called the alarming
plight
            of refugees fleeing a Russian military crackdown in the
breakaway province of Chechnya.

             Indonesia
                  BANDA ACEH, Indonesia ? Indonesian President
Abdurrahman Wahid set off for a visit to the United States and Japan,
leaving behind
            a country racked by mounting separatist pressures that have
divided the government.

             Bosnia
                  THE HAGUE, Netherlands ? A U.N. war crimes court
extended the jail term of a Bosnian Serb police reservist by five years,
ordering
            him to spend 25 years in prison for the murder of Moslem
civilians in Bosnia in 1992.

             Sweden
                  STOCKHOLM ? A man once convicted of the murder of
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and then acquitted on appeal said he
might
            have been the killer after all.

             Israel
                  JERUSALEM ? A Jewish extremist was jailed for
two-and-a-half years for placing a pig's head on the grave of a Moslem
Palestinian
            nationalist fighter, the Israeli Justice Ministry said.
                  JERUSALEM ? Police are unfairly targeting former
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah, the
couple's lawyer
            alleged after his clients were questioned for 11 hours on
suspicion they took bribes and illegally kept state gifts.

             Lebanon
                  BEIRUT ? The Palestinian Islamic Jihad said two of its
fighters were killed in its second attack on Israeli troops in Lebanon
in as many
            months.

             Sri Lanka
                  VAVUNIYA ? Thousands of civilians fled Sri Lanka's
northern government-held frontier town of Vavuniya after Tamil Tiger
rebels
            warned of fresh attacks, witnesses said.

             China
                  BEIJING ? Top U.S. and Chinese negotiators talked for
about one hour on China's entry into the World Trade Organization, a
U.S.
            official said.
                  HONG KONG ? Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong
accused China of jailing four founders of a self-proclaimed opposition
party
            in breach of the constitution.

             Tanzania
                  DAR ES SALAAM ? At least 10,000 Burundian refugees
have fled into neighboring Tanzania so far this month, escaping a
dramatic
            intensification of their country's ethnic civil war, aid
officials said.

             Ivory Coast
                  ABIDJAN ? A public prosecutor demanded three-year jail
terms for 17 Ivory Coast opposition leaders and militants on trial for
public
            order offenses.

             Australia
                  CANBERRA ? Australian customs officials, seeking to
stem a growing tide of illegal immigrants, intercepted an Indonesian
ship
            carrying 22 people off the country's remote northwest coast.

             Myanmar
                  BANGKOK, Thailand ? Myanmar's ruling generals say
opium output has fallen sharply because of their fight against drugs,
but U.S.
            officials argue poor weather can take the credit.

             South Korea
                  SEOUL ? South Korea's top prosecution office said the
chairman of Korean Air Lines Co, Cho Yang-ho, had been arrested on
charges of
            tax evasion.

             Germany
                  MANNHEIM ? Australian Holocaust revisionist Frederick
Toben was sentenced to 10 months in prison after being convicted by a
            German judge of denying that the Nazis murdered millions of
Jews during World War II ? a crime under German law.