Iraq Twin suicide car bombs killed 14 Iraqi police and guards, as US troops captured a top aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Islamic militant behind a wave of attacks and kidnappings. Japan A strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale and swarms of aftershocks rocked central Japan and the capital Tokyo, killing at least eight people including four children, officials said. Afghanistan A suicide bomber blew himself up in Kabul's famous "Chicken Street" shopping haunt, wounding up to seven people, including three foreign peacekeepers, in the boldest attack since the peaceful October 9 presidential election. US US President George W. Bush campaigned in the Republican heartland of Florida, the state which delivered him the White House in 2000, as his opponent, Senator John Kerry, targeted Hispanic voters in the American west. Kosovo Renewed ethnic tensions and uncertainty over final status talks overshadowed Kosovo's general election, the second in the province since the 1998-99 war between Serbian forces and ethnic Albanian separatists. US The United States will not accept North Korean demands as "conditions" for the resumption of stalled talks on resolving the Korean nuclear deadlock but Pyongyang is free to raise them if it returns to the table, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said. Iran Conservative MPs in Iran denounced Europe's call for Iran to halt all uranium enrichment activities if it wants to avoid the threat of UN sanctions over its nuclear activities. Sudan A final group of rebel field commanders arrived here from the wartorn western Sudanese province of Darfur, clearing the way for the start of formal peace negotiations with the Khartoum government. Algeria Sixteen people have been killed in an attack by an armed group of suspected Islamist militants in southern Algeria, state television said, in the latest bloodshed in an Islamic extremist rebellion that has claimed some 150,000 lives in the country since 1992.