Kravchuk to visit US in March: Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk will visit Washington in March to discuss economic cooperation, foreign Investment and other issues with President Clintdn. and aide to Kravchuk said Tuesday, AP reports from Kiev.

Kravchuk's trip will be a return visit for President Clinton's stop in Kiev on January 12, while Clinton was on his way to Moscow for a summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

• Clinton invited Kravchuk at that time to' come to Washington In a sign that US-Ukrainian relations are improving because of Kravchuk s renewed commitment to eliminate all the nuclear weapons that Ukraine inherited from the former Soviet Union.

Three killed in Pak violence: Thr« persons have been killed and six others injured in different firing'incidents in Karachi of Pakistan’s Sindh province, Xinhua reports from Islamabad.

The violence occurred Monday in the wake of the murder of a leader of Mauhajir Qauml Movement .(MQM) Haqiqi group at Sunday night.

According to local press reports yesterday some unidentified masked men opened indiscriminate firing on moving vehicles in different parts of Karachi's eastern district where the leader of MQM Haqiqi group Zafar Abbas was killed. Some vehicles were also burnt or damaged.

Peru road mishap claims 17: a bus carrying members of dnti-guerilla peasant militias tumbled down a cliff in the central province of Conception Monday, killing 17 and wounding 30 others, police and witnesses said. Reuter reports from Uma.

The bus veered off the road and over the precipice near the town of. Comas. 120 miles (200 kms) east of Uma. they said. The road was in poor condition because of torrential rains In the area. A civil defence team'was working Into the night to rescue the bodies, police said.

Landslide in Indonesia, 2 killed: A landslide triggered by heavy rains in the northern coast of central Java killed two teenagers and seriously injured another. Antara news agency said yesterday. AFP reports from Jakarta

The teenagers were bating Monday in a natural pool near their home village in Pemalang district, when the landslide occurred, reported Antara.

8 prisoners killed in Mexico: Eight inmates were killed and 10 injured In a fight that broke out early Monday at the Chetumal prison on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, authorities said. AFP reports from Mexico.

Officials said about 60 prisoners were involved in the fight, and that inmates attacked others with home-made pipes, clubs and other weapons. Tl*re are no report on the reason for the violence.