Vatican At least 100,000 mourners continued to queue for hours on end in and around St Peter's Square, waiting for a fleeting moment to say goodbye to Pope John Paul II. Vatican Hundreds of thousands of compatriots of Pope John Paul II converged on the Polish capital Warsaw for an open-air mass in memory of their beloved 'father' while thousands more followed their hearts to Rome for his funeral. Britain British Prime Minister Tony Blair, eager to lead his Labour Party to an unprecedented third straight term in power, ended weeks of speculation and called a general election for May 5. Saudi At least nine Islamist gunmen including two most-wanted Al-Qaeda leaders have been killed in fierce fighting with security forces that raged on in the kingdom for a third day. Mideast An Israeli was wounded by Palestinian gunfire in the Gaza Strip in the first violent incident there for weeks as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon prepared for showdown talks with Jewish settlers over his plans to uproot them from the occupied territory. Iraq The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) demanded an investigation into a riot at the US-run Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq and warned tensions were still running high at the facility. SKorea Over 1,800 people were evacuated from their homes in South Korea as thousands of firefighters and soldiers tackled a brush fire which spread to residential areas in the country's east, officials said. Austria Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel said the country's ruling coalition would survive a split on the far-right, which saw Joerg Haider form a new party and persuade MPs to defect to his side. Nigeria President Olusegun Obasanjo's anti-corruption drive claimed its biggest scalp yet when the president of the Nigerian senate resigned in disgrace after being accused of accepting a massive bribe. Rwanda Just 72 hours before Rwandans commemorate the 11th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, thousands attended the premiere here of the Oscar-nominated film "Hotel Rwanda," a poignant account of one man's attempt to stop the slaughter.