Reuters World News Highlights 1400 GMT, Aug 2

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - More than 700 people were killed during a five-day uprising by a radical Islamic sect in northern Nigeria and the search for bodies is continuing, Red Cross and defence officials said on Sunday.

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TEHRAN - Iranian authorities have tightened pressure on their opponents by staging what former President Mohammad Khatami derided on Sunday as a "show trial" of 100 reformists accused of trying to instigate a "velvet revolution".

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FALLUJA, Iraq - A car bomb in a market killed six people on Sunday in western Iraq's Anbar province, a health official said, the latest in a string of attacks in the former Sunni Arab insurgent heartland.

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KABUL - Three U.S. troops were killed in east Afghanistan on Sunday, the U.S. military said, continuing a deadly trend after foreign forces in July suffered their worst monthly toll of the 8-year-old war.

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MOSCOW - Three workers from Russia's Emergency Ministry were gunned down in the Ingushetia region on Sunday and a policeman was shot dead overnight in nearby Dagestan, underscoring simmering tension in the country's south.

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TBILISI - President Mikheil Saakashvili said Georgia knows it cannot take back its Russian-backed rebel regions militarily but fears Moscow has designs on Tbilisi.

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TEGUCIGALPA - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya vowed on Saturday to return to power through peaceful means and denied he was rallying groups of armed supporters near the border with Nicaragua.

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BEIJING - Chinese police detained 319 people suspected of involvement in deadly ethnic rioting in northwestern Xinjiang region last month, after a "wanted" list of suspects spurred tip-offs, the official Xinhua agency said on Sunday.

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MINGORA, Pakistan - Pakistan re-opened schools over the weekend in the Swat valley where troops have been fighting Taliban guerrillas for over three months.

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HARARE - Thirty-three people died when a Zimbabwean bus collided with another vehicle on a deadly highway south of the capital, state radio reported on Sunday.

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SALZBURG, Austria - An Austrian pianist performed two newly discovered pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for the first time in public on Sunday in a house where the master composer once lived.