India UN Secretary General Kofi Annan led international condemnation against "terrorist" bombings which claimed at least 61 lives in the Indian capital New Delhi. India A little-known group which claimed responsibility for the series of bombings in New Delhi has links with hardline Islamic guerrillas operating in Kashmir, a senior police officer said. Iran Iran will not return to a full freeze of its disputed nuclear fuel activities and Western demands for such confidence building measures are unacceptable, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. Tanzania Sporadic violence erupted at polling stations on Tanzania's volatile Zanzibar archipelago as voters cast ballots in hotly contested elections amid tight security, fears of unrest and allegations of fraud. Mideast The Palestinian Authority has reached an agreement to end a recent escalation of violence following contacts with Israel and the United States, a spokesman for Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said. US Thousands of Nicaraguans huddled in shelters as the country's Caribbean coast braced for a direct hit from Hurricane Beta early Sunday, now a powerful Category Three storm. Kenya Heavily-armed security forces battled hundreds of rioting youths in western Kenya as the death toll from weekend clashes over the country's proposed constitution climbed to four, officials said, ICoast The opposition in the Ivory Coast began gathering on the day elections were to have been held in the west African state -- to protest the extension of President Laurent Gbagbo's mandate. Mideast Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was facing a fresh political crisis that could force early general elections unless he wins last-minute support for three ministerial appointments. France Twenty-two youths were in police custody after a third night of rioting gripped a rough Paris suburb following the electrocution deaths of two teenagers. Germany Sixty years after it was destroyed by Allied bombs in World War II, Dresden's rebuilt Frauenkirche, or Church of Our Lady, was consecrated.