Ecuador
QUITO -- The United States has signed a 10-year pact to use an airfield on Ecuador's coast for counter-narcotics surveillance flights to replace the now-closed operations center in Panama.
Germany
BERLIN -- Germany's coalition government is working on legislation that would phase out the country's nuclear power industry, even if consensus talks with operators of the nation's 19 nuclear power plants fails, a newspaper said Saturday.
Greece
ATHENS -- Thousands of jubilant demonstrators chanting "Clinton, Fascist, Murderer" marched through Athens on Saturday after similar anti-U.S. protests led President Clinton to delay a visit here.
France
PARIS -- French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin told Iran on Saturday that executing 13 Iranian Jews held on suspicion of spying for Israel would bar Tehran from improving its relations with the West.
Yugoslavia
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Prominent Serb expatriates offered at least $1 million Saturday to help oust Slobodan Milosevic -- if the opposition can end the infighting that has long undermined efforts to get rid of the Yugoslav president.
Portugal
UNITED NATIONS -- The foreign ministers of Indonesia and Portugal announced on Saturday they would resume full diplomatic relations, severed 24 years ago when Jakarta's troops invaded East Timor.
India
NEW DELHI -- A woman jumped into her husband's burning funeral pyre in a northern Indian village as hundreds of people watched, a newspaper reported Saturday. The woman died quickly.
Colombia
BOGOTA -- Colombia's Marxist rebels, who have stepped up attacks against journalists in recent weeks, now appear to have trained their sights on the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross.
Mexico
MEXICO CITY -- Striking students at Latin America's largest university celebrated a victory after the resignation of its rector, and commentators Saturday said the move suggests authorities are serious about ending the strike.
Brazil
SAO PAULO -- Not even the president of Brazil can escape the rampant crime in Sao Paulo, one of South America's most violent cities. President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's compact car was stolen Friday night after his driver parked the vehicle on a Sao Paulo street while running an errand, local media reported Saturday.
SAO PAULO -- Brazil banned nine imported energy drinks -- a favorite beverage among the country's sports and dance-crazed youths -- for using misleading labels on their cans, local media reported Saturday.
Japan
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Tokyo's governor risked angering China and toured Taiwan on Saturday, becoming the highest profile Japanese politician to visit the island since the two severed diplomatic ties in 1972.
Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA -- Eleven prisoners died, hacked by machetes or stabbed, during clashes between rival gangs in one of the worst outbreaks of violence to hit the Honduran prison system, officials said Saturday.
Saudi Arabia
DUBAI -- Pirates sprayed bullets into an Australian family yacht near the coast of Yemen and the holidaymakers were eventually rescued unhurt by a Saudi Arabian oil tanker, one of the victims said Saturday.
Egypt
CAIRO -- Ten Egyptian workers were killed and seven were injured on Saturday when a train smashed into a group of workers who were trying to help people involved in a car accident near the railway tracks, security sources said.