JAPAN

TOKYO -- U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen and his Japanese counterpart agreed to continue cooperating on ways to monitor North Korea's military threat, a Japanese military spokesman said.

INDONESIA

JAKARTA -- A U.S. Army team is in Indonesian-controlled western New Guinea to recover the remains of eight servicemen lost since their plane crashed into plane crashed into a mountain after World War II, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday.

NICARAGUA

MANAGUA -- President Arnoldo Aleman plans to wed a Miami high school teacher 22 years his junior, a source at his office has confirmed.

NORTHERN IRELAND

BELFAST -- Britain named March 10 as a target date for the devolution of a range of home rule powers to Northern Ireland as part of the province's peace process on Wednesday.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW -- NATO remains confident it will soon open a military liaison mission in Moscow despite longer than expected negotiations over the status of the office, the alliance's contact officer said Wednesday.

BRITAIN

LONDON -- Britain's highest court on Wednesday granted Chile the right to be represented by lawyers at a new hearing next week into whether former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has immunity from prosecution.

LONDON -- The Yemeni embassy in Britain on Wednesday said kidnappers had released British oil worker John Brooke, who was taken hostage in Yemen on Saturday.

MALAYSIA

KUALA LUMPUR -- Legal experts on Wednesday said the prosecution in the trial of ousted Malaysian finance minister Anwar Ibrahim was entitled to amend corruption charges but questioned the timing and motive.

NIGERIA

LAGOS -- Nigerian police fired shots and used teargas to break up a protest against the military government by several dozen students in the commercial capital Lagos on Wednesday, witnesses said.

VATICAN

VATICAN CITY -- Italian police on Wednesday barred a group of homosexuals from entering St Peter's Square in memory of a man who set himself alight there a year ago in protest at discrimination against gays.

BELGIUM

BRUSSELS -- A Belgian transsexual and his wife are fighting a government order to divorce because Belgian law does not recognize same-sex marriages.

UKRAINE

KIEV -- The United States wants Ukraine to present a coherent strategy for economic reform and better business climate in the next few weeks before releasing a hefty chunk of new aid money for 1999, senior U.S. officials said.

NETHERLANDS

THE HAGUE -- The joint war crimes trial of Bosnian Croat political leader Dario Kordic and military commander Mario Cerkez will begin at the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia on April 12, the court said on Wednesday.

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UZBEKISTAN

TASHKENT -- The British Broadcasting Corp. said Wednesday its radio programs had been forced off the air in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan.

INDONESIA

JAKARTA -- Three U.S. congressmen met jailed East Timorese guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmao on Wednesday and urged the Indonesian government to release him.

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