Brazil
SAO PAULO - Gunmen burst into a bar in southeastern Brazil Wednesday and opened fire, killing 11 people and wounding four others seriously, police said.
Egypt
CAIRO - One of the Muslim world's leading clerics, Sheik Mohammed Mutwali Sharawi, died Wednesday. He was 87.
Senegal
NEMA MILITARY SECTOR II - Violence in the aftermath of a failed coup in Guinea-Bissau has spread to the West African country's northern border, with Senegal launching an artillery barrage across the frontier into rebel territory.
Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA - Five people were shot dead in a suspected drug-related hit in northern Honduras Tuesday, police said.
Thailand
BANGKOK - Leaders of Cambodia's embattled Khmer Rouge rebels are living just inside Thailand but are under pressure to return to Cambodia, a business associate of feared Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok said Wednesday.
East Timor
DILI - One East Timorese youth was killed and another wounded when they were shot by Indonesian soldiers while collecting wood, residents of the territory said Wednesday.
Australia
CANBERRA - The timing of the next Australian election now rests with one piece of controversial legislation, the government's Aboriginal land rights bill, political analysts and officials said Wednesday.
Cambodia
PHNOM PENH - Cambodians should vote freely and without fear in the country's July 26 national poll, King Norodom Sihanouk said Wednesday in his first public comments on the election.
Philippines
MANILA - No heads of state will be invited to Philippine president-elect Joseph Estrada's inauguration this month, an Estrada spokesman said Wednesday.
Pakistan
KARACHI - A senior police officer was shot dead in his home and three people were wounded in an explosion in the southern port city of Karachi, police said.
Israel
JERUSALEM - Israel's High Court has smiled on motorists slow to pay parking fines by ruling that time has expired on unpaid tickets issued before 1995.
Cyprus
NICOSIA - Two Greek fighter jets and a transport plane left a military base in Cyprus on Wednesday after a controversial visit Turkey said stoked tension on the divided island.
Turkey
ISTANBUL - A Turkish government minister in comments published Wednesday blasted the handling of a search for Russian missiles on a ship passing through Turkey's Dardanelles Straits.
Algeria
ALGIERS - A bomb killed at least four people and wounded four Wednesday when it ripped through a cemetery southwest of Algiers, government security forces said.
Belarus
MINSK - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has put off a move to evict foreign diplomats, including the U.S. ambassador, from their elite residential complex, officials said Wednesday.
Russia
MOSCOW - Six military satellites launched by Russia's Strategic Missile Forces have gone into the wrong orbit but still can be used as planned, officials said.