1.   A court martial opened Monday against four Belgian soldiers charged with desecrating a tomb and committing other offenses while on peacekeeping duty in Croatia.

2.   Former Buenos Aires police officers are suspected of desecrating tombs at Jewish cemeteries in an attempt to sabotage an overhaul of the force.

3.   Vandals desecrated several tombs at a Jewish cemetery in the central Russian town of Tambov, painting swastikas on the monuments, a news report said Tuesday.

4.   The tombs were desecrated on Friday and Saturday nights, a spokesman for the organisation said.

5.   Unidentified vandals desecrated seven tombs at a Jewish cemetery classed as a historic monument in eastern France, judicial officials said Thursday.

6.   Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Tuesday ordered a halt to an archaeological dig after thousands of ultra-orthodox Jews staged a demonstration to protest that tombs were being desecrated.