51.   Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma accepted the resignation Monday of his influential reformist deputy prime minister, Viktor Pinzenik, a government spokesman said.

52.   Wei told a press conference he was asking the Hiroshima organising committee to stop the vice prime minister from attending the opening spectacular in front of Emperor Akihito.

53.   It will be run by Melchior, Canadian MP Irwin Cotler, and the former Swedish deputy prime minister, Per Ahlmark.

54.   John Giheno took over as caretaker prime minister after Chan stood down Wednesday pending a judicial inquiry into the Sandline contract.

55.   Malval was sworn in as a compromise prime minister as part of an agreement to bring Aristide back.

56.   Moving an analysis on the Japanese prime minister ahead of a visit by US President George W. Bush.

57.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been in Nablus since Saturday and was due to meet there later Sunday with former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres.

58.   President Farooq Ahmed Leghari sacked Bhutto Monday, and veteran politician Malik Meraj Khalid was sworn in Tuesday as caretaker prime minister.

59.   Roumen Guetchev, Bulgarian deputy prime minister, said on television on Saturday that the revenue from privatization would be used to guarantee bank deposits.

60.   Serdar Denktash, who replaced Atun as leader of the DP, is now deputy prime minister.