Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi urged the country to unite on after an election lauded by world leaders as a historic breakthrough that must not be undermined by sectarian conflict. Iraq Both supporters and opponents of the US-led occupation of Iraq on greeted the elections there as a key breakthrough toward the restoration of sovereignty in the war-torn country. Iraq Britain said 10 military personnel died in the crash of a military transport plane in Iraq but that it was too early to comment on claims it was shot down by Islamic militants. US The faded "King of Pop," Michael Jackson, faced a showdown with destiny, as his long-awaited child sex trial officially opened amid an extraordinary blaze of publicity. Kuwait Kuwaiti security forces fought their biggest battle yet with suspected Islamist militants, killing five including a Saudi and arresting the radicals' spiritual leader, the interior ministry and state TV said. US A US federal judge ruled that military tribunals for international terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base are unconstitutional, leaving in doubt the fate of hundreds of detainees at the US-run detention center in Cuba. Cuba The European Union suspended diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, easing a standoff triggered by a clampdown on dissidents by Havana in 2003 - but it vowed to maintain pressure on Fidel Castro. Mideast Eight Palestinian militant groups threatened to resume attacks against Israel if the army did not call an immediate halt to its operations, a spokesman for the military wing of the main Islamist group Hamas told AFP. Britain The first of 12 foreign terrorism suspects still held indefinitely without charge in British jails was granted bail, after the government was forced to amend its anti-terror policy. Croatia The UN war crimes court in The Hague sentenced former Yugoslav general Pavle Strugar to eight years in prison for his role in the 1991 siege of the medieval Croatian town of Dubrovnik.