SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Five babies died and 19 babies and a nurse were injured in a fire yesterday at a Sarajevo orphanage, police and prosecutors said. Two babies were in intensive care, Sarajevo police said in a statement. The cause of the fire is being investigated.

ISTANBUL (AFP) - A liberal Turkish magazine that ran controversial articles about two military coup plots in 2004 has been taken off the press by its owner after police raids, the editor said Saturday. «The suspension is indefinite. You can consider it as a closure,» editor in chief Alper Gormus said of the decision to halt publication of Nokta, which had been running for 25 years. Acting on orders from a military prosecutor, police stormed Nokta's Istanbul office last week and copied the contents of all computers.

Several thousand Romanians rallied in front of parliament in Bucharest yesterday to protest against the suspension of reformist President Traian Basescu. Lawmakers suspended Basescu, Romania's most trusted politician, on Thursday on charges of overstepping his powers. He had been feted by Western observers for his anti-corruption stance, and his removal has sparked concern in the EU, which Romania joined in January, about the future of justice reforms and the fight against rampant graft. (Reuters)

Hostage takers have released two Turkish workers kidnapped weeks ago in Nigeria's tumultuous southern oil region, officials said Saturday. Rivers State Police Commissioner Felix Ogbaudu said the pair seized April 6 in the southern Niger Delta region were handed over to security forces late Friday in the area. (AP)

Croatia yesterday remembered the victims of a notorious concentration camp set up by the country's pro-Nazi Ustasha regime during the Second World War. «This is a site of terrible crimes which does not allow us to forget that it happened,» said Croatian President Stipe Mesic at a ceremony held at the Jasenovac memorial complex, broadcast live on national television. The ceremony marked the 62nd anniversary of an attempted escape by about 600 camp prisoners and was attended by camp survivors, members of the victims' families and government representatives. (AFP)