Mideast Mahmud Abbas is to be inaugurated as the new president of the Palestinian Authority, shackled by Israel cutting off official contacts after a suicide attack killed six Israelis. Iraq A US general in Baghdad conceded that his troops could not guarantee a peaceful election day, just two weeks away, as rebel attacks multiplied in Iraq. NKorea The United States reacted cautiously to North Korea's reported offer to resume talks on its nuclear weapons program, saying it needed to see concrete action from Pyongyang. US-Iraq A military jury convicted Specialist Charles Graner of beating and humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in a scandal documented in sordid photographs that caused worldwide outrage. Venezuela-Colombia President Hugo Chavez froze trade with neighboring Colombia until Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe explains the capture of a top Colombian rebel leader in Venezuela. Britain Britain's royal family sought to stem the furor over Prince Harry's Nazi costume, rejecting calls for public atonement, as organizers of commemorations of the liberation of Auschwitz invited the prince to volunteer at the former death camp. Space-Saturn A European robot lab parachuted to the surface of the Saturn moon Titan, successfully climaxing a venture to explore one of the most beguiling phenomena in the Solar System, mission leaders here said. Asia Indonesia will seek a peace deal to end a long-running separatist war on Aceh province where most of the 163,000 deaths from last month's Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis occurred, Vice President Yusuf Kalla said. Asia Elusive Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran will next week hold peace talks with Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen, an official with the rebels said. Ukraine Ukraine's defeated presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich filed a final appeal with the supreme court over a rerun vote won by liberal rival Viktor Yushchenko, who for his part looked ahead to taking power.