Mideast Israel evacuated the first settlement in the Gaza Strip as sobbing and defiant settlers elsewhere clashed with forces poised to evict them after a midnight deadline. Venezuela-Colombia A Colombian plane with about 160 people on board, mostly French citizens, crashed in the mountains of western Venezuela, leaving no survivors, authorities said. Afghanistan Seventeen Spanish peacekeepers were killed when a NATO helicopter crashed during training in western Afghanistan, and Madrid said it was not ruling out an attack. Iran-US-Israel The new government of ultra-conservative Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ruled out any resumption of ties with the United States and said it would never have relations with Israel. Iraq Iraqi politicians warned of political turmoil after failing to meet a deadline on the country's new constitution, but Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari and US officials sought to downplay the crisis. Japan A powerful earthquake off Japan's Pacific coast injured at least 56 people, set off small tsunami waves and swayed towering buildings in the heart of Tokyo. Greece A mystery over the final moments of a Cypriot plane that crashed in Greece deepened when an official coroner said at least 25 of those killed were alive at the moment of impact, including the co-pilot and an air hostess.