TIRANA (Reuters) - Tirana residents are trying to put off dying until the government and city officials end their row over space shortages in the Albanian capital’s graveyards. The Tirana Municipality has shut down one of the city’s two cemeteries and said the other has space for only one more week. It blames the government for holding up the expropriation of nearby land that would add space for two years’ worth of graves. “Death rites for a cemetery” and “Now starts the trading of the graves” ran the headlines in Albanian dailies alongside pictures of new graves dug in the lanes between the old.

SKOPJE (AP) - China will donate computers worth $2.5 million (2 million euros) to schools in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) as part of a financial and technical cooperation agreement signed between the two countries yesterday, authorities said. The agreement was signed by Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, who met with FYROM President Branko Crvenkovski and premier designate Nikola Gruevski. Tang traveled to FYROM after visiting neighboring Serbia.

A land mine left over from Bosnia’s 1992-95 war killed a 44-year-old man and injured two other people who were chopping wood in an area that was a front line during Bosnia’s war, the local prosecutor said yesterday. Hamdija Zuka died instantly while his son Aldin, 17, and his neighbor Fuad Omanovic, 31, were badly injured Monday evening near the village of Tolovici in central Bosnia. Doctors at the local hospital said both survivors are in critical condition. (AP)

Two Israeli citizens were severely beaten by a group of skinheads in a Belgrade park in what Jewish leaders described yesterday as an anti-Semitic attack. Jariv Avram, 27, and Bojana Petkovic, 23, were attacked late Sunday during a rock music festival in a downtown park by several men wearing Nazi symbols, police said. Avram suffered serious head injuries, while Petkovic was bruised, said Belgrade media. Serbia has seen a surge of anti-Semitism fueled by nationalists. (AP)