Iraq Three people were killed in US air raids on the Iraqi rebel bastion of Fallujah and two US soldiers were killed and two injured when a pair of helicopters collided over southwest Baghdad. Iraq Reports that British troops based in the relatively calm south of Iraq could be redeployed under US command near strife-torn Baghdad drew a storm of criticism from opposition parties. US President George W. Bush and challenger John Kerry were in a dead heat 16 days before Election Day, according to a poll, although Kerry was widely seen as the victor in their three debates. NKorea North Korea has already completed the development of plutonium-based nuclear weapons with the help of Pakistan, a senior Japanese official said. Belarus Polling stations opened in Belarus for a referendum on whether authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko should be allowed to run for a third consecutive term, as well as for parliamentary elections. Japan-Peru Former president Alberto Fujimori, who is in exile in Japan, headed a "criminal organization" that murdered 25 people in the early 1990s, the Peruvian Foreign Ministry told Japan in support of an extradition request against Fujimori. Spain-Cuba Three visiting European lawmakers were summarily expelled from Cuba because they were to meet with the Cuban opposition, dissident leaders said. Cameroon A presidential election in the west African state of Cameroon that returned long-serving President Paul Biya lacked credibility, international observers led by Canada's ex-prime minister Joe Clark said. France Pierre Salinger, press secretary to US presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson died, aged 79, of a heart attack in a hospital in southern France and is to be buried in his native United States, his wife said.