Iraq Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said he will roll out an arms-for-cash programme across Iraq to clean up the streets ahead of elections promised by January, and pledged an urgent aid package for the battle-scarred city of Fallujah. Britain Britain said it was considering a US request to move some of its troops in Iraq from their base in the relatively peaceful south and into US-controlled areas, potentially placing them in far greater danger. Mideast Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon battled to dissuade members of his own party from pushing for a referendum on his Gaza pullout plan as he conceded elections may be needed to end divisions in the country. US Democratic presidential contender John Kerry renewed hostilities with George W. Bush over Iraq as Florida and other key states started early voting for the November 2 election. Britain World oil prices rose to new heights above 55 dollars on markets worried about tight supplies ahead of the northern winter but later fell sharply as profit-taking set in. Belarus Voters in Belarus agreed to change the constitution to allow autocratic President Alexander Lukashenko to retain power indefinitely in a referendum denounced by foreign observers as biased and distorted. Britain A long-awaited report into homosexuality within the Anglican community called for a US church to apologise for appointing an openly gay bishop, warning that a repeat could split the faith down the middle. EU Interior ministers from the five largest western European states said they had agreed to set up a common "watch list" of terrorist suspects but they remained split over a controversial plan to create migrant holding centres in Africa. China North Korea's number two leader began a series of meetings in China amid pessimism about prospects for an early resumption of talks on curbing the Stalinist state's nuclear program. Afghanistan Five people were killed when an explosive device hit a vehicle being used by election staff in the country's southeast in the latest violence following Afghanistan's landmark polls.