Iraq At least 31 people, including a woman and a child, were killed and 40 others wounded in triple car bombs that rocked Baghdad. "This is just a temporary toll... it could increase," an interior ministry official said. Mideast Israeli forces moved in at dawn to expel settlers from the Gaza Strip, bracing for a violent showdown with diehard radicals after a day of clashes and angry protests. Venezuela-Colombia A Colombian jet carrying French tourists crashed in the mountains of western Venezuela killing all 160 people on board, officials said. Afghanistan A helicopter crash that killed 17 Spanish troops in western Afghanistan may have been the result of an attack, Spanish Defence Minister Jose Bono said, qualifying an earlier statement which said it was an accident. Iraq Iraqi politicians warned of political turmoil after failing to meet a deadline on the country's new constitution, but Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari and US officials sought to downplay the crisis. US-Iraq-Iran US forces have found Iranian weapons inside Iraq on more than one occasion over the past couple of months, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said. Israel-China-US Israel's defence ministry and the Pentagon announced in a joint statement that they had resolved a crisis sparked by an arms contract between Israel and China. Britain Anti-terror police in London were under pressure after leaked documents described an alleged catalogue of fatal errors that led to the mistaken shooting of an innocent Brazilian man. Paraguay-US US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld met with Paraguay's President Nicanor Duarte Frutos amid concerns over what US officials see as a Cuban-Venezuelan campaign to subvert neighboring Bolivia. Greece Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos vowed to do everything in his power to solve the mystery of the Helios plane crash, as anger grew over the airline's handling of the tragedy. Pakistan-US Pakistani police charged a man for his alleged role in the kidnapping and slaying of US reporter Daniel Pearl. Japan The number of people injured in a powerful quake off Japan's Pacific coast rose to 60, as the government warned aftershocks measuring above 6.0 on the Richter scale could strike the region.