Iraq Thirty people were killed in a car bomb blast near a major religious shrine in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Najaf, a hospital official said, shortly after a similar attack in the sister city of Karbala. Iraq Ten people were killed when a car bomb exploded at a bus station in the Iraqi Shiite shrine city of Karbala in the second deadly attack there in less than a week. Russia Russian authorities began the controversial auction for the sale of the main asset of the crippled Yukos oil giant, the target of a sustained campaign by the Kremlin. Sudan African Union mediators were to meet with envoys from the Sudanese government and Darfur's main rebel groups after Sudan threw the region's peace process into turmoil by launching a fresh offensive. Turkmenistan Turkmenistan held parliamentary elections denounced by exiled opponents of President Saparmurat Niyazov and seen as likely to reinforce his regime's isolation from the outside world. Iraq Three armed groups in Iraq have threatened to kill 10 Iraqi hostages they said were working for an American security firm, according to a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera television. Colombia Hundreds of right-wing paramilitary fighters from a group blamed for massacres have surrendered their weapons, the latest to do so in a process expected to remove 20,000 from combat by the end of next year. Indonesia A large explosion was heard over Jakarta after a suspected meteor was seen streaking across the sky over the Indonesian capital.