Luxembourg Europe stepped up efforts to allay public fears of a human pandemic as Greece ran tests to determine whether a deadly Asian bird flu strain already detected in Turkey and Romania has spread further. Iraq Iraqi election officials combed through ballots from a referendum on the country's new constitution after the discovery of "anomalies" in the vote. Iraq Iran said it had sent its own indictment against Saddam Hussein to Iraq's government, a day before the former president appears in court for the first in a series of trials for crimes against humanity and war crimes. SAsia Bulldozers broke open roads to push into the isolated Himalayas as the UN warned there were not enough tents in the world to keep warm the survivors of Pakistan's pulverising earthquake. Germany Germany's new parliament sat for the first time even as the incoming coalition government tries to put together a policy programme. Japan China said Japan's foreign minister is not welcome in Beijing, after the nation's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi paid a controversial visit to a Tokyo war shrine. China The world is watching to see whether China will chart a path toward a more open society, and wondering why it is concealing the pace of its military spending, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said. Thailand Thailand extended emergency rule in its three mainly Muslim southern provinces by another three months, as the death toll neared 1,000 in nearly 22 months of unrest. SAsia Islamist guerrillas shot dead Indian Kashmir's junior education minister and three others in a daylight attack at his home in a high-security enclave in the main city Srinagar, authorities said.