PARIS - French members of the Bahai faith said they feared two more of their co-religionists might be about to be executed in Iran.

GABORONE - Botswana President Festus Mogae unveiled plans to give more financial and medical help to people suffering from AIDS/HIV.

UNITED NATIONS - Children`s health, including anti-smoking campaigns, received the largest proportion of funds in the second round of grants donated to the United Nations by media mogul Ted Turner. The Turner Foundation announced $32.849 million in addition to the $22 million donated to the United Nations last May.

WASHINGTON - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat met U.S. President Bill Clinton and said he could accept a compromise plan for Israeli troop withdrawals, but U.S. officials said tough issues remain unresolved.

OTTAWA - The Group of Seven countries should take "concerted and prompt" action to contain the global financial crisis, Commonwealth Secretary General Chief Emeka Anyaoku told the opening ceremony of a meeting of Commonwealth finance ministers.

MOSCOW - President Boris Yeltsin told his new foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, that Russia should activate its role on the world stage so that other countries take its views on international issues into account.

JAKARTA - Thousands of Indonesians rallied on the 33rd anniversary of an attempted communist coup, warning that communism was still alive and responsible for riots and looting plaguing the country.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. public supports President Bill Clinton in his fight to remain in office but those who are likely to vote in November are more critical of his conduct. A poll showed his job approval rating was 63 percent, near its all-time high.

PRETORIA - South Africa said it had high hopes that talks this week between the opposing factions in Lesotho would take a bold step towards peace in the mountain kingdom fractured by riots, arson and looting.

YANGON - Thousands of supporters of Myanmar`s military government rallied this week against the political opposition and demanded the deportation of its leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

COLOMBO - More than 700 soldiers and Tamil Tigers have been reported killed in fighting in northern Sri Lanka, as the rebels said they had captured a key town of Mankulam held by the military.

JERUSALEM - A surge of unrest among Arabs in Israel spread to the historic city of Nazareth after the apparent failure of an attempt by Israeli President Ezer Weizman to ease tensions.

QUETTA, Pakistan - The military standoff between Iran and Afghanistan`s Taleban Islamic militia has caused a suspension of border trade between the two countries for the last month and a half.

DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzanian police said they would try in Tanzania two suspects in the August 7 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam and had no plans to extradite them to the United States.

AMMAN - A U.S.-based press freedoms group has called for the release of jailed Syrian journalist Nizar Nayyouf, saying he was gravely ill and had been detained solely for speaking out about human rights in Syria.

ALGIERS - Four Algerian soldiers and 18 Moslem rebels were killed in a weekend battle which lasted about 12 hours in the southwest of the country.