ANKARA (AP) - Turkish police fired automatic weapons into the air and launched tear gas canisters to disperse some 1,000 Kurdish demonstrators who injured 10 policemen with stones during a tense funeral yesterday for two Kurdish rebels, reports said. The clashes erupted in the southeastern city of Siirt when police insisted the rebels, killed by Turkish troops last week, be buried somewhere other than at a family cemetery, private NTV television said.

BELGRADE (AP) - Serbia-Montenegro's foreign minister has called for a special parliamentary session to address US and EU demands that Belgrade arrest and extradite war crimes suspects to the UN court. Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic warned in comments published yesterday by the Tanjug news agency that further stalling on the extradition of about a dozen fugitives wanted by the tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, would have «tragic and irreparable» consequences.

A military vehicle collided with a bus in Kosovo, seriously injuring two French peacekeepers, an official said yesterday. The accident occurred Saturday on the road between the southern Kosovo town of Prizren and the capital, Pristina, said Maj. Guillaume Leroy, a spokesman for the NATO-led peacekeepers deployed in Kosovo. The soldiers, who were initially taken to hospitals in Kosovo, were evacuated to France yesterday to undergo further treatment. (AP)

Romania's new prime minister, Calin Tariceanu, is set this week to present evidence to Brussels of his country's efforts to come up to European Union standards in order to ensure its EU membership by 2007. «EU membership is our government's absolute priority,» he stressed on the eve of his departure for two days of talks beginning today, his first contact with top EU officials since he was elected prime minister last month. (AFP)

Serbian police have arrested four minors suspected of throwing an 11-year-old boy off a Belgrade bridge and letting him drown in the Sava River, officers said on Saturday. The four youths, aged 13-15, allegedly pushed the boy off the bridge on Thursday morning, a day after they had a fight with his older brother, said Milorad Simic, head of Belgrade police. Simic said the boys were drugged, probably from inhaling glue. (AP)