Mideast Settlers were dragged kicking and screaming from the Gaza Strip after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon issued final orders to clear all remaining Jews from the Palestinian territory. Iraq Three car bombs exploded just minutes apart at a busy Baghdad bus station and a nearby hospital during morning rush-hour, ripping through buses and killing at least 43 people. Bangladesh More than 100 small bombs exploded almost simultaneously in towns and cities across Bangladesh, police said, including 15 in the capital Dhaka and 20 in the southeastern port of Chittagong. Britain Police in London were under pressure after leaked documents revealed that a Brazilian man killed on suspicion of being a suicide bomber was not trying to evade police and was already being restrained when he was shot at point blank range. Venezuela Investigators from Venezuela, Colombia and France converged on a remote hillside in western Venezuela where a Colombian jetliner crashed in a ball of fire killing all 160 people on board. Indonesia In a move likely to provoke outrage in Australia, Indonesia reduced the 30-month sentence handed to Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for his role in the Bali bombings by more than four months. US A high profile peace camp set up by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is to move from the roadside outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch to a private property nearby following mounting hostilities with local residents. Afghanistan A Spanish military helicopter that crashed in Afghanistan with the deaths of all 17 soldiers aboard was attacked, according to eyewitness reports published in the Spanish press.