ANKARA (AFP) - Four people were injured and 176 others detained yesterday during a demonstration here by a left-wing organization against Turkey’s bid to join the EU, the Anatolia news agency reported. Riot police intervened against the demonstrators using tear gas when they tried to march to the city center after reading a press statement at a park in the Kurtulus district, the report said.

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia says it is investigating reports that its police incinerated the corpses of Kosovo Albanian war victims in 1999 at a factory in southern Serbia. Interior Ministry Inspector-General Vladimir Bozovic told Belgrade’s B92 radio late on Sunday he hoped that “in the next month or two... a professional and objective investigation will be completed which will yield results.” Allegations of a gruesome cover-up surfaced several weeks ago in a statement by the head of the Humanitarian Law Center, a Belgrade-based non-governmental organization.

A Turkish court has ordered the release of the main suspect in the fatal stabbings of two Leeds soccer fans nearly five years ago, his lawyer said yesterday. Ozkan Ozmen said the court agreed to release Demir because he had spent nearly five years in jail, and recent changes to Turkish law stipulated that a defendant could only spend three years in custody before a decision was reached. (AP)

Romania said yesterday it would send 100 more troops to Iraq to help protect UN staff during the Jan. 30 election. (Reuters)

Five Bulgarian nurses on death row in Libya in a controversial AIDS case are demanding compensation for being tortured in detention, Bulgarian national television reported yesterday. The nurses’ Libyan lawyer, Othmane al-Bizanthi, told bTV each of them was demanding a million dinars (574,000 euros, or $716,807) from the Libyan authorities. The lawyer said a case against 10 police officers accused by the women of torturing them would begin in Libya on January 25. (AFP)