GCC FMs meet in KSA: Foreign Ministers from the six Gulf Arab slate* meet In Saudi Arabia yesterday to unify their response after last weeks missile strikes against Iraq by the United States, their key Western ally Reuter reports ironi 6ubal

Oman s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Youssef bin Alawi bin Abdullah told reporters the Gulf Cooperation Coun ell's (GCC) Saudi Arabia Kuwait. Qatar. Oman. Bahrain and United Arab Emirates formed a committee to draw up its position on Iraq He said after a round of talks late on Saturday that an official statement would by issued Sunday, but that the group supported the coalition led by the US which last week extended a no-fly zone in southern Iraq to it* 33rd parallel Fujimori's top aide resigns: a top aide to President Alberto Fujimori has resigned, citing a desire to return to private life. AFP reports from Uma

Jaime Yoshiyama Tanaka, the head of the Ministry of the Presidency who held his post since last November, stepped down to concentrate on business, according to radio and television reports late Friday But he may have been squeezed out by the return of the president s brother. Santiago Fujimori who had been one of Fujimori* two most powerful aides from 1990-1995. He was ousted last year and returned recently Road mishap claims 10 in Pakistan: Tan passengers were killed and 60 Injured yesterday when a crowded bus overturned in Pakistan's Punjab province, the official Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) news agency reported. AFP report from Islamabad

The bus which was on Its way to Sialkot from a village in eastern Pakistan and 15 of the injured were in serious condition, it added

Israelis hold peace march:Thousands of Israelis held simultaneous peace demonstrations in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Saturday evening. Reuter reports from Jerusalem.

In Tel Aviv about 2.000 people gathered at Yitzhak Rabin Square, renamed after the Prime Minister assassinated last year by a right-wing Jew for his peace moves with the Arabs The protesters held torches and stood in the formation of the word "shalom." the Hebrew word for peace

US woman astronaut sets record: NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid has set a record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, thanks to technical problems on Earth and a hurricane in the Atlantic. AP reports from Cave Canaveral.

As of Saturday. Lucid had spent 169 days aboard the Russian space station Mir. She probably won't be home for another few weeks. "1 will only be happy for Shannon Lucid," said Russian oosmonaut Yelena Kondakova, who set the previous record aboard the space station Mir last year. "It proves that women can work in space as long as men.

Actor Michael Collins Awarded: a controversial fllm about Ireland's struggle to shake off British rule scooped the top prizes in the Venice Film Festival on Saturday when Michael Collins won both the Golden Uon and the best actor awards, AFP reports from Venice.

"Michael Collins was directed by Neil Jordan and starred Irish actor Liam Neeson who won the best male actor award. The Venice festival is one of the three main European fllm festivals. The jury was chaired by Roman Polanski

Dallas' producer Katzman dies: Leonard Katzman, executive producer of Texas oil family saga "Dallas' on US television and director of other shows that spanned the Golden Age of television to the present, has died. He was 69. AP reports from Los Angeles.

Katzman, who had just celebrated his birthday on Monday, died at his Malibu home on Thursday of an apparent heart attack, his son Mitchell said Saturday. "Dallas" premiered in 1978. and ran through. May 1991. entertaining a worldwide audience with its tales of lust and treachery amid oil rigs and sprawling cattle ranches. The "Who Shot J R?" episode on Nov 21. 1980. was the most-watched single show in US TV history until the final episode of "MASH" on Feb 28, 1983.

Arafat to visit Japan: Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is to leave Gaza City Tuesday for an officials three-day visit to Japan a Palestinian source said. AFP reports from Gaza City.

The source said that Arafat had initially planned to travel to Japan on Monday. Arafat Is scheduled to hold talks with Japanese leaders during which he intends to discuss his first meeting last Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the source said. He will discuss a detailed list of points on the peace process and also bilateral relations, the source said. Arafat is scheduled to leave japan Thursday.

35 drowned in Hyderabad: Thirty-five people in a wedding party drowned when a lorry they were travelling in plunged into a river in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, police said yesterday, Reuter reports from New Delhi.

Police said the accident occurred on Saturday when the lorry, carrying about 70 people, fell off a bridge, 400 km (250 miles) south of Hyderabad, the state capital.