Iraq The first elections in Iraq since the downfall of Saddam Hussein last year will be held on January 30, the election commission announced. Ukraine Ukrainians voted for a new president in a bitterly fought runoff election that will determine whether this strategic former Soviet republic turns toward Europe or remains under Moscow's shadow. APEC Asia-Pacific leaders were to wrap up an annual summit, falling in line behind US President George W. Bush's "war on terror" and backing his anti-nuclear drive against North Korea and Iran. Nepal At least 66 Maoist rebels and 10 government troopers were killed in an overnight clash in Nepal's far-western Pandon village. China Up to 55 people were killed when a plane crashed into a lake after a blast shortly after take-off, in China's deadliest aviation disaster in more than two years, witnesses and state media said. Mideast The nephew of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat arrived at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport from Cairo to pick up the deceased leader's medical records. Algeria Five German tourists who went missing in Algeria's Sahara desert have been found safe and well in the southern Djanet region of the north African country. Bahrain A Bahrain judge jailed a human rights activist for a year on a charge of inciting hatred against the regime, in a case that has raised international concern and prompted protests outside the court.