Iraq Two US Marines were killed in Iraq's Baghdad province, the marines said in a statement which gave no further details. The deaths followed the killing of eight marines over the weekend in the restive western Al-Anbar province. Chile A Chilean judge indicted former dictator Augusto Pinochet to stand trial for murder and kidnappings carried out under his 1973-1990 iron-fisted rule, also placing him under house arrest. DRCongo 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. 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. 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. China Two of three prominent intellectuals detained by police were released after being interrogated and warned to halt their writings that are critical of the Chinese leadership. 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. Pakistan India and Pakistan will thrash out an agreement to give each other notice of their ballistic missile tests, but analysts say the rivals are still far from being responsible nuclear powers. 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. NKorea 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.