Iraq-US-Britain Britain agreed to a request from US commanders to redeploy 850 troops into a US-controlled section of Iraq, west of Baghdad, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said. China An underground gas explosion which ripped through a mine in central China killed at least 60 workers and left 88 missing in one of the country's worst mining disasters in recent memory, officials said. Japan Japan was searching for survivors after the country's deadliest typhoon in more than a decade killed at least 61 people as it crushed houses, overturned trains and stranded passengers on flooded highways. Cuba President Fidel Castro, Cuba's leader for more than 45 years, broke his left knee and his right arm in a fall, and urged the Caribbean country's population of 11 million to stay calm, a government statement said. Iran Europe's three heavyweight states were to give Iran a last chance to reassure the world it is not secretly developing atomic weapons, offering valuable nuclear technology as a carrot and possible UN sanctions as the stick. Nigeria Nigerian prosecutors charged three senior military officers and a Lagos businessman with plotting to shoot down President Olusegun Obasanjo's helicopter with a ground-to-air-missile and to overthrow his government in a violent coup. Afghanistan With more than half the ballots in Afghanistan's presidential election counted and outright triumph virtually assured for incumbent Hamid Karzai, attention turned Thursday to when the winner can be declared and how the losers will react. Belarus-US Belarus warned the United States it was heading toward a Cold War-style confrontation after President George W. Bush signed a law barring financial aid to the former Soviet republic and urging democracy there. Britain Prince Harry, fast gaining a reputation as Britain's most unruly royal, was involved in a scuffle with a photographer outside a London nightclub, palace officials and witnesses said. Zimbabwe-SAfrica Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has pardoned on medical grounds a South Africa apartheid spy who was jailed for 15 years, Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge said.