Geneva - A World Food Programme (WFP) appeal issued last month for 140 million dollars to help feed a growing portion of Zimbabwe's population has gone completely unfunded, a UN spokesperson said Tuesday.

"So far we have received none of the funding, zero," said WFP spokeswoman Emilia Casella .

Paris - Both houses of the Algerian parliament are due to meet Wednesday to decide whether to change the constitution to allow President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to stay on for a third term.

If passed, the 71-year-old president could take up a third five- year term in the spring of 2009.

Parliament would also vote on cutting some of the prime minister's powers in favour of the president.

Madrid  - A judge at Spain's top anti-terrorism court Tuesday issued an international arrest warrant for Ignacio de Juana Chaos, 53, the best-known gunman of the militant Basque separatist group ETA, who is believed to have moved to Northern Ireland after being released from prison in August.

Islamabad  - A bomber was killed and around half a dozen people were injured in a suicide attack at the gates of a packed sports stadium in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on Tuesday, officials said.

The blast occurred immediately after the conclusion of three-day inter-provincial games, District Coordination Officer Sahebzada Anees told reporters.

Gorleben, Germany - Fierce protests accompanied the arrival of a shipment of radioactive waste at a northern German warehouse early Tuesday, one day behind schedule, after thousands of anti-nuclear activists tried to hold up the convoy.

After more than 80 hours stopping and starting by train and truck, 11 containers with spent nuclear fuel from German nuclear power plants arrived at Gorleben in Lower Saxony state just after midnight.

Twice, protesters chained themselves to ingeniously designed concrete weights which had to be cut up, piece by piece, to release cuffs around the protesters' wrists without injuring them.

Athens - More than 4,000 inmates at 21 prisons across Greece continued their hunger strike for a second week on Tuesday, with some sewing their mouths shut to protest overcrowding, drug dealing and lengthy pre-trial detention periods.

Some 4,800 inmates, including Athens' top-security Korydallos prison and the Alikarnassos prison on the Mediterranean island of Crete, initially launched the strike on November 3.

The detainees have been drinking fruit juice and water but have refused solid food.