P143 CEEFAX 2 143 Sat 20 Feb 18:11/13 /j£3kj£3kj£3k . :. The following pages feature . news stories from BBC . Monitoring, based in Cavjrsham near Reading. ] BBC Monitoring selects and translates reports from TV, radio, news agencies and Press from 150 countries in more than 70 languages. . . .: For more information on one :. . of the world's largest media monitoring bodies, visit our Web site: http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk 1/k Extra: More world news coverage 142 Headlines 101 Index 102 Sport 300 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP143 CJEFAX 2 143 Sat 20 Feb 18:11/38 IRAN QUASHES DEATH SENTENCE ON GERMAN Iran's Supreme Court has rescinded a death sentence given to a German businessman for having an illicit relationship with an Iranian woman. The German, Helmut Hofer, was arrested in September 1997 on charges of breaking a law banning sexual relations between Muslims and non-Muslims. His case has now been referred back to another court for a new hearing, the Iranian IRMA news agency reported. Hofer says hj converted to Islam before the relationship, with a student. 2/5 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Tjckjr 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 154 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP143 CEEFAX 1 143 Sat 20 Feb 19:11/54 FORMER UKRAINIAN PREMIER ARRESTED A former Ukrainian prime minister who is wanted on corruption charges has been djtainjd at New York's JFK airport Pavlo Lazarinko, Ukraine's first minister from June 1996 to June 1997, has been accused of embezzling more than £1.4m in state property. A Russian news agency said Lazarenko had intended to seek political asylum in the US. Ukraine's parliament lifted Lazarinko's immunity from prosecution on Wjdnjsday, and a warrant was issued for his arrest 3/5 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP143 CJEFAX 1 143 Sat 20 Feb 19:11/24 TURDS AND SERBS HOLD RALLIES IN PARIS Around 1,000 Turds have staged a rally in Paris in support of Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan. French radio said the Turds marched from the Kari dj l'Est station to the Place dj la Rjpubliquj with a huge picture of Ocalan and dozens of flags. Elsewhere in the French capital, about 1,000 people took part in a pro-Serb rally as the Kosovo peace talks at Rbmboujllet entered their last day. The demonstrators carried banners saying "Kosovo is a Serbian Jerusalem". 4/5 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP143 CJEFAX 2 143 Sat 20 Feb 18:10/59 W"£££"£££"£££ O LEFTISTS HOUND SPANISH PREMIER'S POOCH A left-winger on Madrid council has accused the authorities of bias over a new list of dangerous dogs. Franco Gonzalez claims the authorities lift cockjr spaniels off the black list "bjcausj Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has one," Spanish media reported. "The cockjr breed often has a dangjtous character. They have been reported to the police for aggression on numerous occasions," Gonzbliz sbid. Madrid introduced the list after a series of dog attacks on children. 5/5 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 154 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main Menu