Chile A Chilean judge ordered former dictator Augusto Pinochet to stand trial on murder and kidnap charges linked to his role in Operation Condor, a conspiracy of 1970s South American dictatorships to eliminate opponents. Iraq Seven people died in a Baghdad suicide bombing after a bloody weekend which saw nine US troops killed, signalling that coalition forces remain beset by a fierce insurgency on the first anniversary of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein's capture. Romania Opposition candidate Traian Basescu won Romania's hotly contested presidential election dominated by the country's EU membership bid, but the centre-right mayor of Bucharest faced the arduous task of trying to form a government from a fragmented parliamentary base. Afghanistan A human rights group said it had evidence of two previously unreported deaths of Afghan prisoners in US custody in Afghanistan, and accused Washington of covering up abuse of detainees. Congo Fierce fighting pitted dissident soldiers against Democratic Republic of Congo government troops in the eastern town of Kanyabayonga, where the men drawn from a former rebel force said they had killed a dozen regular soldiers. Spain Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero blamed Islamic radicals linked to Al-Qaeda for the March 11 train bombings and called for a cross-party pact against international terrorism, while insisting Spaniards had not been "cowards" to vote for him. Ukraine The poisoning of Ukraine's opposition icon Viktor Yushchenko overshadowed the country's presidential election campaign after the Western-leaning candidate accused the government of trying to kill him, and his pro-Russia rival denied any knowledge of the case. Iran Britain insisted that Iran respect a full freeze of uranium enrichment, but Tehran sought exceptions for research purposes during talks with the European Union on confidence measures to show it is not making nuclear weapons. China Rescuers furiously pumped water from a shaft at a flooded mine in southwest China where 36 workers are missing and feared dead as the country reels from another disaster in the danger-plagued industry. North Korea North Korea's leadership said its control of the Stalinist regime remained as "firm as a rock" despite what it called an escalating US drive to overthrow it. Sudan Rebel leaders pulled out of peace talks on the crisis in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, accusing the government of repeatedly breaching a ceasefire deal, spokesmen for their movements said.