Britain: Royal visit
LONDON — Prince Harry will travel to New York City this month on a high-profile trip that will include a visit to ground zero and a charity polo match.
It will be the first time the 24-year-old royal has traveled to the United States since the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997.
The trip also will be Harry's first formal overseas engagement outside Britain.
He has frequently traveled abroad, but this will be the first time he officially represents Britain's royal family on such a trip.
China: Detained
BEIJING — An exiled leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests has been secretly detained in south China for more than six months after trying to return to his homeland for the first time since 2002, his family said Wednesday.
In April 1989, Zhou Yongjun captured global attention by kneeling on the steps of the Great Hall of the People by Tiananmen Square in a plea for China's communist leaders to acknowledge the students' extraordinary call for political freedom and an end to government corruption.
He was a 21-year-old undergraduate at the time.
Zhou, a permanent U.S. resident, was detained in October trying to cross into mainland China from Hong Kong to visit his elderly parents, his sister said Wednesday.
Germany: Fit for prison
BERLIN — John Demjanjuk is fit enough to remain in custody at Germany's Stadelheim prison, officials said Wednesday, but it still could take up to two weeks for Munich prosecutors to determine whether the 89-year-old Ukraine native is healthy enough to stand trial.
Demjanjuk, who was deported earlier this week from his Ohio home, is being held on suspicion of acting as an accessory to the murder of 29,000 people as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor death camp.
Myanmar: On trial
YANGON — Myanmar's military government planned to put detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on trial Thursday in connection with the intrusion of an American man who sneaked into her compound, a spokesman for her party said.
A motorcade escorted by armed police left her home early Thursday.
Such a trial could justify another extension of Suu Kyi's years-long detention, which officially ends May 27.
N. Korea: Trial planned
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea says two U.S. journalists detained at the communist nation's border with China will stand trial on June 4.
Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency gave no other details in its brief dispatch, including what charges they face.
North Korean media previously have said that the two journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, are accused of illegal entry and unspecified "hostile" acts.
The journalists, who work for San Francisco-based Current TV, a media venture founded by former Vice President Al Gore, were detained on March 17 near the border while reporting on refugees living in China.
Russia: Misunderstood
MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev said Wednesday that Europe still misunderstands Russia nearly two decades after the Soviet collapse, and he dismissed as nonsense portrayals of his country as an aggressive force.
Gorbachev, who resigned as the Soviet Union's last president when the Cold War superpower disintegrated in 1991, said Russia does not want military conflict but suggested it should be treated as an equal.