EUROPE NEWS AT 1930GMT

UPCOMING COVERAGE FOR MONDAY, MARCH 17:

RUSSIA-US

MOSCOW _ U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates begin a two-day visit.

GERMANY-ISRAEL

TEL AVIV, Israel _ German chancellor Angela Merkel and Cabinet travel to Israel for first German-Israel government meeting.

TURKEY-SECULARISM

ANKARA, Turkey _ A court announces if it will hear a complaint asking that Prime Minister Recep Erdogan's party be shut down on the grounds that it is undermining secularism.

UN-DARFUR

GENEVA _ African Union and U.N. officials meet in Geneva for two days of informal talks on moving …