WASHINGTON (AFP) - A key Al-Qaeda figure, Hussein al-Yemeni, involved in a recent attack on the CIA in Afghanistan apparently has been killed in Pakistan, a US counterterrorism official told AFP Wednesday.

YAOUNDE (AFP) - Seven Chinese fishermen abducted off Cameroon's resource-rich Bakassi peninsula last week were freed on Wednesday, Cameroonian and Chinese sources told AFP.

BRUSSELS (AFP) - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Wednesday refused to rule out an appeal for aid to the International Monetary Fund, if European backing is insufficient to resolve its debt crisis.

MADRID (AFP) - A ransom for a five-year-old British boy kidnapped in Pakistan and freed this week was paid in Paris, Spain's interior ministry said Wednesday, adding five people have been detained.

HAVANA (AFP) - Cuban police detained about 30 people as they marched in Havana Wednesday in a protest by wives and mothers of political prisoners demanding that they be freed, an AFP journalist witnessed.