BUCHAREST (AP) – A heat wave sweeping most of Romania left at least five people dead, the Health Ministry said yesterday. More than 8,500 people have needed emergency care since Monday, and some medical workers have been called back from vacations, Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu said.

DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) – Three Turkish soldiers were killed and five were injured yesterday when a mine, planted on a road by Kurdish rebels, exploded in southeast Turkey, security officials said. The blast occurred when a vehicle carrying the soldiers, who were returning from a patrol, drove over the mine in the Cukurca district of Hakkari province near the border with Iraq.

Bulgaria’s parliament approved a cabinet reshuffle yesterday and the appointment of new economy and justice ministers following a corruption scandal that shook the government. A total of 157 deputies in the 240-seat legislature voted for the proposed changes, 57 were against and there were three abstentions. (AFP)

Bosnia’s war crimes court yesterday acquitted Momcilo Mandic, the most senior ethnic Serb official to have been indicted by Bosnian authorities, of all charges related to crimes during the 1992-95 war. The court said there was no evidence that Mandic, a minister under then Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, was involved in war crimes against non-Serbs. He had been charged with leading an attack by Bosnian-Serb police and paramilitary units on a police training center in Sarajevo in April 1992, where non-Serbs were held and tortured. (Reuters)

A Serbian war crimes prosecutor has indicted an ethnic Albanian suspected of killing eight Serbs whose bodies were found in a Kosovo cave, his office said yesterday. “Sinan Morina is accused of having taken part in the murder of eight Serbs” from the northwestern Kosovo village of Opterusa in July 1998, the prosecution office said in a statement received by AFP. He is also accused of capturing, torturing and the rape of Serb civilians, as well as of destruction of property and religious sites, according to the statement. The United Nations mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, discovered the remains among a total of 25 victims found in the Volujak cave, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) north of the village, in April 2005. (AFP)