SPAIN

BILBAO -- More than 60,000 demonstrators marched in northern Spain Saturday to protest the recent arrests of alleged members and supporters of an armed Basque separatist group.CORSICA

BASTIA -- In four attacks Saturday, explosions ripped through a court, a post office, a restaurant and an office on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, officials said.

UKRAINE

KIEV -- More than 100 unpaid Ukrainian miners stayed in underground shafts Saturday while dozens of others were on hunger strikes to win payment of back wages, union officials said.

IVORY COAST

OUAGADOUGOU -- International Monetary Fund managing director Michel Camdessus Saturday played down an apparent rift between the IMF and Ivory Coast.

ITALY

VENICE -- Chinese President Jiang Zemin arrived in Venice Saturday to start a 10-day tour of Italy, Switzerland and Austria.

FINLAND

HELSINKI -- Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen toured Helsinki's poorer districts Saturday in a last-ditch attempt to get his key blue-collar supporters to vote in today's election.

BRITAIN

LONDON -- Patrick Heron, Britain's foremost abstract painter, died Saturday at the age of 79.

FRANCE

PARIS -- Following in the footsteps of their students, thousands of teachers from across France marched through Paris Saturday to demand a greater say in educational reform.

TANZANIA

ARUSHA -- Belgium has asked Tanzanian authorities to arrest and extradite a Rwandan accused of killing 10 Belgian peacekeepers, the Internews press agency reported Saturday.

REPUBLIC OF CONGO

BRAZZAVILLE -- Anti-government militia fighters ambushed a vehicle carrying merchants in the Republic of Congo Saturday, killing five civilians, military sources said.

TURKEY

DIYARBAKIR -- A suicide bomber believed to be a Kurdish rebel detonated a bomb Saturday, killing himself and wounding two police officers.

BRAZIL

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Two Brazilian pop stars have paid $300,000 in ransom to kidnappers who seized their brother three months ago.

VENEZUELA

CARACAS -- Ninety percent of Venezuelans say former coup leader and now President Hugo Chavez is doing a "fair" to "very good" job so far, according to a poll published Saturday.

TOGO

LOME -- Togo has deployed troops to polling stations across the country to prevent trouble during a general election today that the opposition is boycotting.

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CHILE

SANTIAGO -- Supporters and opponents of Chile's Augusto Pinochet staged noisy protests Saturday, five days before a key ruling by Britain's top court on whether the former dictator must face extradition to Spain.

GERMANY

BONN -- A row over a Holocaust memorial for Berlin escalated Saturday as leading German politicians and bishops criticized the latest compromise design for the long-delayed project.

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