Uzbekistan Tensions remained high in this town on the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border as Tashkent struggled to quell unrest in the wake of a crackdown that has sparked unprecedented Western criticism of the authoritarian Uzbek regime. Afghanistan-US Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned reports of abuse of detainees in US military custody in Afghanistan before leaving for Washington to meet with US President George W. Bush. Azerbaijan Some 45 protestors were arrested here as police dispersed an opposition demonstration by 500 people who defied a protest ban to rally for free elections in Azerbaijan, police said. Iraq Sunni Arabs closed their mosques for three days to protest a spate of killings in which three of their clerics died, as Iraqis reacted with shock to intimate jail photos of ousted president Saddam Hussein. Chile More frozen bodies were recovered from an area of the Chilean Andes, bringing to 21 the number of confirmed dead after 45 young conscripts were lost in a blizzard in the Chilean army's worst peacetime disaster. China China has ordered emergency measures to stop the spread of bird flu after discovering some migratory birds had died from the H5N1 virus, state media said. Cannes "The Child," a Belgian drama about a petty thief who sells his baby son, won the Cannes film festival's prestigious Palme d'Or at a red-carpet ceremony. Australia Australian pop superstar Kylie Minogue has undergone successful surgery to remove a cancerous lump from her breast and is expected to fully recover, her surgeon said. Afghanistan-Italy Afghan officials were working feverishly for the release of a kidnapped Italian aid worker, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said, as the woman's suspected abductor said she was still alive. Jordan OPEC president Sheikh Ahmed Fahd al-Sabah vowed at a World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting that the cartel will respond to new forces in the fast-changing oil market by the end of the year.