Turkey The European Court of Human Rights upheld a ruling in favour of jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, saying he had been unfairly tried by a Turkish court that sentenced him to death in 1999, and a senior Turkish ruling party official said Ankara would take the necessary legal steps to address the flaws. Iraq At least 12 people were killed and 55 wounded in a car bomb explosion on a main street of Baghdad's eastern Jadida district, according to an initial toll from the interior ministry. US A controversial British lawmaker and a former top French minister received huge oil allocations in kickbacks from the regime of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein under the UN Oil-for-Food program, the US Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said, but Britain's George Galloway rejected the charges as "a big lie". Iran Iran said it would restart some sensitive nuclear activities that were frozen as part of a deal with the European Union, a move diplomats said would see the Islamic republic hauled before the UN Security Council. Iran Iran's intention to restart sensitive nuclear activities earlier frozen under a deal with the European Union is "legitimate" and will not alter Russia's nuclear cooperation with the Islamic state, a Russian nuclear official said. Germany German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder called on deputies in the lower house of parliament to ratify the EU constitution later in the day. US John Bolton, President George W. Bush's controversial pick for US ambassador to the United Nations, was expected to receive the backing of a key Senate committee later in the day, but not before opponents launch a last-ditch effort to derail his nomination. US International aid agencies evacuated workers from a riot-hit city in eastern Afghanistan as protests at the alleged desecration of the Koran by US soldiers moved to Kabul, officials said. Israel Israel was celebrating 57 years of statehood amid blanket security, as the army demanded that Lebanon disarm militants after a rocket was fired into the north of the Jewish state. NKorea Fears of an impending crisis in the nuclear standoff with North Korea grew after Pyongyang said it had completed another step towards making more atomic weapons.