BOGOTA — Four police officers and a civilian were killed Saturday as officers moved a powerful bomb allegedly planted by leftist rebels as part of an attempt to kill a city mayor, authorities said. Police removed the bomb that was hidden in a water meter and were transporting it in a police vehicle when it exploded in downtown Neiva, killing the officers and a woman inside her home nearby.

Mexico

MEXICO CITY — Gunmen killed two members of Mexico's former ruling party Saturday in a mountain city in southern Mexico, local media reported. Javier Carlos Vargas and Sosimo Hurtado, both active members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, were riddled with bullets in the city of Tlapa. No arrests have been made.

Morocco

RABAT — A bus skidded off a treacherous mountain road in northern Morocco on Saturday, killing nine people and injuring 45 others, hospital officials said. The accident occurred outside the town of Khenifra. It was apparently caused by high speeds and a mechanical problem, the official MAP news agency reported.

Nicaragua

MANAGUA — A Nicaraguan opposition leader is protesting President Daniel Ortega's gift of two poetry manuscripts to fellow leftist President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, demanding that Chavez return them. Eduardo Montealegre, the conservative former presidential candidate of the Liberal Alliance party, told Radio Corporacion Saturday that the manuscripts by famed poet Ruben Dario are part of Nicaragua's patrimony.

Poland

WARSAW — Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Kazimierz Nycz the new archbishop of Warsaw, the Polish Episcopate said Saturday, filling a post left open when his predecessor resigned after admitting to ties with the communist-era secret police. Nycz, the 57-year-old bishop of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg in northern Poland, replaces former Warsaw Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus.

Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN — A federal judge has threatened to fine the U.S. Virgin Islands government after finding it in contempt of court for the fourth time in 12 years for failing to improve care for mentally ill prisoners awaiting trial. U.S. District Judge Stanley S. Brotman, in a ruling Thursday, warned he would impose daily fines against the U.S. Caribbean territory in two months unless it upgrades treatment at two jails.

Sudan

KHARTOUM — Sudan's president said again on Saturday that his country would not hand over for trial any citizen sought by international courts for crimes against humanity. In Sudan, "anyone who makes a mistake will be held responsible for it, but we are not going to take any dictates from abroad," President Omar al-Bashir was quoted as saying by the official SUNA news agency.