THE HAGUE (Netherlands) - FOUR Dutch journalists have been detained in Indonesia's Papua province while covering a pro-independence rebel's return from exile, the government of the Netherlands said on Tuesday.

Indonesian police have filed no charges against the four - a reporter for NRC Handelsblad newspaper and three documentary makers from the VPRO television network, Foreign Ministry spokesman Herbert Brinkman said.

BEIJING - CHINA on Tuesday accused supporters of the Dalai Lama of fabricating a video that appears to show police beating a Tibetan protester to death, while the video-sharing network YouTube said its service had been blocked for Chinese users.

The footage was pieced together from different places, the agency said on Tuesday, citing an unidentified official with China's Tibetan regional government.

TOKYO - A 93-YEAR-OLD Japanese man has become the first person certified as a survivor of both US atomic bombings at the end of World War II, officials said Tuesday.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi had already been a certified 'hibakusha,' or radiation survivor, of the Aug 9, 1945, atomic bombing in Nagasaki, but has now been confirmed as surviving the attack on Hiroshima three days earlier as well, city officials said.