P218 CJEFAX 218 Mon 13 Oct 21:16/55 1/3 ] SWEDEN The 1986 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been shared by Rita Levi- Montalcini of Italy and Stanley Cohen of the US for their study of "growth factors", it has been announced. SOUTH AFRICA The country's Bureau for Information, which controls official news reporting, has said three blacks were set on fire and burned to death in violence during the weekend. SRJ LANKA Tamil separatists say they have killed 28 soldiers but lost one commander in a battle in Mannar, in the north west. The government says several Tamils and three soldiers have died. News index 102/202 MoreP218 CEEFAX 218 Mon 13 Oct 21:14/48 2/3 FRANCE Farmers in Lyon have seized a truck carrying British lamb and dumped the carcasses in the central square of the town. It is the latest in a series of protests at a rise in cheap imports. BANGLADESH Several bombs have exploded and five vehicles have been set on fire in the capital, Dhaka, on the final day of campaigning for Wednesday's presidential election. IRAQ Residents in Basra say Iranian long-range artillery is shelling the port. Iran had said it would shell economic and military targets in the city for two days in retaliation for Irate air raids. * MoreP218 CEEFA( 218 Mon 13 Oct 21:17/33 3/3 GREECE Results from the first round of local government elections show that the conservative opposition party, New Democracy, has made significant gains over the ruling socialist kovjrnmjnt. ITALY Police have arrested 38 suspected mobsters on charges of criminal association, homicide, extortion and smuggling. They are all from three rival Calabrian families. SA VADO h n mb r o p op ll d n t art our d a o s res n to n asl 900, wi h at l as 0 000 n r d. h hav b n 800 n w t mots s nc th in rial 'qua News index 102/202 More