GUATEMALA

Guatemalan police captured a man they suspect of ordering the slayings of three Salvadoran politicians last year, prosecutors said. Authorities also ordered the arrest of a congressman suspected of conspiracy in the deaths.

Carlos Gutierrez, 34, was arrested near the border with El Salvador after investigators traced more than 60 telephone calls between him and the suspected killers, public prosecutor Alvaro Matus told reporters. He gave no details about Gutierrez.

Matus said an arrest warrant had been issued for Congressman Manuel Castillo.

The charred, bullet-riddled bodies of three Salvadoran members of the Central American parliament and their driver were found at the end of a dirt track Feb. 19.

Days later, four Guatemalan policemen were arrested in the crime. They were later slain inside a maximum-security prison.

AFGHANISTAN

Suicide attack on convoy kills 7

A suicide bomber targeted Indian road construction workers and their police escorts, killing seven people and injuring 13 in southwestern Afghanistan, an official said.

The convoy had been traveling on a main road toward the city of Khash Rod in Nimruz province when it was first hit by a remote-controlled bomb planted on a motorcycle, wounding one policeman, said Gov. Ghulam Dastagir Azad.

The convoy stopped and a suicide bomber set off a secondary attack, leaving six policemen and an Indian worker dead, Azad said.

HONDURAS

Minister seen in brawl video quits

Honduras' foreign minister resigned after a video posted on the YouTube website showed him throwing punches at police following a traffic stop.

Milton Jimenez acknowledged being intoxicated when police stopped him for driving without license plates, but maintained that he had been mistreated. He showed reporters bruises on his arms that he said were caused when officers tossed him roughly into a pickup truck.

"I was wrong to have been driving while intoxicated . . . but I think the excessive actions don't help democracy," he said.

Police stopped Jimenez, 50, Sunday in the capital, Tegucigalpa.

Public Safety Minister Gen. Alvaro Romero said Jimenez refused to identify himself or to take a sobriety test. He did not explain why Jimenez was released without any charges.

UNITED NATIONS

Libya chairs Security Council