NETHERLANDS
AMSTERDAM -- A 19th victim of an outbreak of deadly Legionnaires' disease has died, and the number of people confirmed to have been infected at a flower show last month has risen to 106, the Health Ministry said.
UKRAINE
KIEV -- Viacheslav Chornovil, longtime leader of the opposition Popular Rukh movement and a key figure in Ukraine's fight for independence from the Soviet Union, was killed Thursday in a car crash at age 61.
TAJIKISTAN
DUSHANBE -- The Supreme Court convicted and sentenced three men to die for killing four U.N. workers in the volatile Central Asian nation.
LEBANON
NABATIYEH -- Lebanese guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb in southern Lebanon, injuring two Israeli soldiers, one of them seriously, officials said.
GERMANY
BONN -- An unemployed German, celebrated in the popular press as "Lotto Lothar," drank himself to death after winning $2.2 million in a state lottery, a newspaper said.
TURKEY
ISTANBUL -- Thousands of people packed an Istanbul mosque to bid farewell to the city's popular Islamist former mayor, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, before he begins a 10-month jail sentence later in the day. Erdogan, 44, was ordered out of office last year after his conviction in for inciting hatred by reciting a poem deemed to encourage opposition to Turkey's powerful military.
ITALY
ROME -- The government declared a state of emergency for the southern region of Puglia in readiness for a possible influx of ethnic Albanian refugees fleeing fighting in Yugoslavia, a government spokesman said.
THAILAND
BANGKOK -- Thai Deputy Prime Minister Supachai Panitchpakdi, one of two contenders for the top job at the World Trade Organization, said he expected to see more support emerge for him from African countries.
INDONESIA
BANDA ACEH -- Police fired warning shots and tear gas to disperse separatist activists in the northern Aceh province, marring a peace mission by President B.J. Habibie.
RUSSIA
MOSCOW -- The nation's top prosecutor ordered his staff to reopen a criminal investigation into anti-Semitic statements made by a Communist lawmaker, retired Gen. Albert Makashov.
ZIMBABWE
HARARE -- Three Americans held in Zimbabwe on charges of terrorism, espionage and sabotage said their right to a fair trial was being undermined by speculative reporting in Zimbabwe's state media.
ITALY
PERUGIA -- Master chocolatemakers in the central city of Perugia, home to some of Italy's best-loved sweets, said they had made a 1,760-pound Easter egg. The giant egg will be put on display until the day before Easter Sunday, when it will be broken up and distributed free as a message of peace and solidarity.
ENGLAND
LONDON -- Male rape is not uncommon in England, researchers said after new research showed 3 percent of men there have been sexually assaulted.
NORTHERN IRELAND
BELFAST -- Britain and Ireland intensified efforts to steer the Northern Irish peace process out of trouble and meet a deadline for long-awaited progress next week.