1.   A Lima newspaper cited government spokesmen as saying Peru was irritated by a Uruguayan court ruling Tuesday that released two alleged Tupac Amaru guerrillas.

2.   Eight other workers escaped the ambush by the Free Papua Organization, the newspaper said, citing military spokesman Lt. Col. Maulid Hidayat.

3.   However, two brigades based in Chechnya will not be withdrawn, Interfax reported Wednesday, citing a spokesman for the Interior Ministry troops in Chechnya.

4.   Khodzhayev appeared to have been shot Tuesday night as he was returning home, the Interfax news agency reported, citing opposition spokesmen in the former Soviet republic.

5.   Lead defender Viktor Onopko also left to play for the Spanish Atletico Madrid, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Thursday, citing Spartak spokesman Leonid Trakhtenberg.

6.   The news agency said Ivanovsky was in satisfactory condition, and it cited spokesmen at Moskovsky Komsomolets saying the attempt on his life had nothing to do with journalism.

7.   The state-run radio report cited a spokesman for the captors.

8.   The visiting IMF team will meet with Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin on Wednesday, the Interfax news agency reported, citing government spokesman Alexander Mikhailov.

9.   Western nations, however, are empowered under their own laws to prosecute holders of ivory and seize shipments through their territory, CITES spokesman Jared Crawford said.

10.   Western nations, however, are empowered under their own laws to prosecute holders of ivory and seize shipments through their territory, said CITES spokesman Jared Crawford.