Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY -- An overcrowded bus toppled over early Saturday, killing 30 people and injuring at least 50 in central Guatemala.Italy
ROME -- Responding to attacks from right-wing opponents, Premier Massimo D'Alema defended his stock market investments and noted that he recently took a loss, Italian newspapers reported Saturday.
Philippines
ISABELA -- It is impossible to meet the demands of Philippine rebels who want to trade hostages for Arab terrorists jailed in the United States, Defense Secretary Orlando Mercado said Saturday.
Syria
DAMASCUS -- Syrian Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Mustafa Tlas met a North Korean delegation on Saturday for talks on ways to promote military cooperation, officials said.
Jordan
AMMAN -- Customs officers have seized heroin with a street value of $10.5 million in Jordan's largest-ever catch of the drug, the official Petra news agency reported Saturday.
Nigeria
LAGOS -- Police have arrested the leader of executed activist Ken Saro-Wiwa's group after at least five people were killed during feuding within the group in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta.
India
NEW DELHI -- Separatist guerrillas swooped down on a village in remote northeast India Saturday, killing at least 12 people and seriously wounding seven others, Press Trust of India news agency said. The attack was apparently linked to local elections scheduled for later this month.
Canada
MONTREAL -- An underground electrical explosion in downtown Montreal Saturday shut down the city's subway service and left about 4,000 people without power for a few hours.
France
PARIS -- Thousands of people marched in France's northwest region of Brittany on Saturday, protesting against plans to set up laboratories studying the storage of radioactive waste.
Iraq
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's newly elected parliament called on Jordan on Saturday to set free a light plane seized in Amman last week for flying to Baghdad in defiance of U.N. sanctions.
Brazil
SAO PAULO -- Information from the files of 11.5 million taxpayers has been leaked from computers of Brazil's Internal Revenue Service and was sold to direct-mailing companies, Brazilian media reported Saturday.
Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR -- Defying tear gas and police beatings, hundreds of supporters of jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim marked the anniversary of his conviction Saturday with a protest that resulted in 46 arrests.
Japan
TOKYO -- Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Saturday visited a recently awakened volcano in northern Japan and said he was considering economic relief to towns in the area.
Yugoslavia
BELGRADE -- The Yugoslav Army's top commander claimed in an interview published Saturday that his forces suffered scant losses in last year's air war with NATO.
Germany
BERLIN -- Police stopped 34 rightist radicals as they arrived in a North German city Saturday despite a court ban on a march called by an extreme-right party.
England
LONDON -- Former Spice Girl Gerri Halliwell, a U.N. goodwill ambassador who has sparked controversy calling for safe sex to stem the world's population explosion, was heckled by protesters on Saturday at a youth summit in London.