China Up to 20,000 anti-Japanese protesters took to the streets of two southern Chinese cities, as Japan demanded an apology for a violent rally outside its embassy in Beijing the previous day. China China's foreign ministry said it was not responsible for the current state of Sino-Japanese relations, blaming worsening ties on Japan's failure to atone for its wartime past. Iraq The Pakistani consul in Baghdad became the latest foreign victim of Iraq's kidnapping scourge, as violence flared anew just as the country's new government took shape. Mideast Israeli police prevented right-wing Jewish extremists from staging a rally at Jerusalem's disputed mosque compound after thousands of Muslims had massed to defend the flashpoint site. Vatican Catholic cardinals took a break from closed-door deliberations over a successor to Pope John Paul II, as an account emerged by his private secretary of a purported miracle that could help any claim for sainthood. Iraq Iraq's new president, Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, hinted in an interview that he opposed the idea of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein being sentenced to death. EU The European Union wants a negotiated settlement to a dispute with the United States over government aid to aircraft makers Boeing and Airbus, and will not be the first to bring the row before the World Trade Organisation, an aide to EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said. India Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao toured India's hi-tech capital and called for closer cooperation to launch the "Asian century" of information technology. India Ten people were killed and 20 injured in a grenade blast and in clashes between militants and soldiers and police in Indian Kashmir, police said. Britain Royal newlyweds Charles and Camilla got off to a fresh start with an often hostile media which nevertheless warned the prince to heed polls showing Britons want his son William to become king before him. Germany German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said the world must never allow the horrors of the Nazis to fade from memory as he commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp. Netherlands A KLM plane on a direct flight from Amsterdam to Mexico was forced to turn back after the American authorities refused to let the plane enter US airspace because it was carrying two suspect passengers, a KLM spokesman said. Monaco The husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco, Prince Ernst August of Hanover, was in "stable but serious" condition with an inflamed pancreas, a source close to his entourage said as Monaco residents began paying their last respects to Caroline's late father Prince Rainier.