VENEZUELA

Gunmen opened fire on students returning from a march in Caracas, Venezuela, in which 80,000 people denounced President Hugo Chavez's attempts to expand his power. At least eight people were injured, including one by gunfire, officials said.

At least four gunmen -- their faces covered by ski masks or T-shirts -- fired handguns at the crowd. Terrified students ran through the campus as ambulances arrived.

National guard troops gathered outside Central University of Venezuela. The law bars them from entering the campus, but Luis Acuna, education minister, said they could be called in if the university requests them.

Venezuelans will consider constitutional changes expanding Chavez's power in December.

ARGENTINA

Interpol links Iranians to blast

Interpol put a former Iran- ian intelligence chief, a former leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, three other Iranians and a Lebanese militant on its most-wanted list in connection with a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people at a Jewish center in Buenos Aires.

Iranian envoys accused Israel and the United States of trying to use Interpol to taint Iran's image, but most delegates at Interpol's general assembly in Marrakech, Morocco, agreed that the case was purely a police matter.

RUSSIA

Legislators vote to suspend arms pact

Russia's lower house of parliament voted unanimously to suspend a key arms treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe, saying the United States and NATO were using the pact to undermine Russia's defenses.

Ignoring appeals from the United States, the State Duma approved a law allowing Moscow to halt compliance with the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, seen by the West as a cornerstone of European security. The suspension will take effect Dec. 12.

Russia's move comes after months of sparring with the United States and European Union over plans for a missile defense shield and proposed independence for Serbia's breakaway Kosovo province.

From Times Wire Reports