Iraq Saddam Hussein's top henchmen will start going on trial for crimes against humanity next week, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said, as he warned violence would increase after Iraq's landmark elections in January. India At least 38 people died when two passenger trains collided head-on in India's northern Punjab state, officials said, revising downwards a previous death toll of 50. Afghanistan Militants kidnapped a Turkish engineer in eastern Afghanistan after killing an Afghan security guard who was travelling with him, a government official and Western security sources said. France As air force jets screamed overhead, French President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's tallest bridge, a stunning masterpiece of engineering that will carry drivers 270 metres (885 feet) above ground. Iraq A court backed an Iraqi family demanding the British government investigate the death of a relative, allegedly beaten to death while held in British military custody in Iraq. Chile Lawyers for Augusto Pinochet stepped up efforts to stop the former Chilean dictator from appearing in court to face charges of murder and kidnapping during his 1973-90 rule. Ukraine Ukraine's pro-Russia Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich scrambled to save his faltering reputation by denying that he supported the use of force against pro-Western opposition demonstrators now poised to carry their leader. Cuba Cuba pressed on with its biggest military exercises in almost 20 years, with 400,000 reservists joining regular forces and millions of civilians in wargames which the authorities say are to deter a US invasion. DRCongo The Democratic Republic of Congo army is fighting "a war against Rwanda" in the east of the vast country, a government spokesman said after two days of fighting in the town of Kanyabayonga had left dozens dead. Mideast New PLO chairman Mahmud Abbas called for an end to the armed uprising as Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza in the aftermath of the most lethal Palestinian attack since Yasser Arafat's death. France A Lebanese television station accused of spreading anti-Semitic propaganda for the Muslim militant group Hezbollah was taken off-air in Europe following a French ruling banning it, the Paris-based satellite company Eutelsat said.