11.   Earlier in the day a powerful explosion damaged the offices of the newspaper Efta Imeres and the sports daily Athlitiki Gnomi, police said.

12.   Edgar de Jesus Fernandez was seized in an apartment in Medellin, once the rival city of the Cali drug cartel, police said.

13.   Fabio Savi, who police said had a craze for arms, was arrested as he tried to flee across the Austrian border with his Romanian girlfriend.

14.   Fake Singapore passports were issued to the Chinese and efforts made to alter their appearance, police said.

15.   Gasoline bombs were hurled by unknown assailants at three Turkish travel agencies here early Wednesday, gutting one of the offices, police said.

16.   Gunmen backed by landowners shot and killed four left-wing activists in eastern India on Saturday, police said.

17.   He lived there alone, though he was attended by several servants, police said.

18.   In the latest violence, several bombs exploded accidentally early Tuesday in houses in Ambon, the center of recent fighting between Muslims and Christians, police said.

19.   It was not immediately known if any of the victims were clergymen, police said.

20.   Many in the crowd carried sickles and daggers, said police Sgt. Bagus Riyadi.