Ukraine More demonstrations were expected in Ukraine after its pro-Russia prime minister won the presidential runoff, with the opposition mounting massive protests to contest results of a vote that Washington and Europe said was rigged by the state. Iraq World powers readied to hammer out a statement on Iraq's future at a conference in Egypt, as the nation ravaged by unyielding violence prepared for its first post-Saddam election on January 30. Afghanistan Three foreign United Nations workers kidnapped and held hostage in Afghanistan for three weeks have been released, police and officials told AFP. Iran Iran said it was freezing its controversial nuclear fuel work in a move welcomed by the head of the UN's atomic watchdog as a step in the right direction to easing fears the Islamic regime is seeking the bomb. Iran US President George W. Bush cautiously welcomed Iran's pledge to freeze all uranium enrichment work, saying "I hope it's true" but insisting on international verification. Cuba Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Havana to meet his Cuban counterpart, Fidel Castro, for talks expected to bring badly needed investments to the financially strapped island. Philippines Twenty-nine people were confirmed dead with 84 others missing and feared dead after tropical storm Muifa rampaged through the Philippines, the civil defense office said. US-India The United States warned that terrorist attacks on US interests may be imminent in the Indian cities of New Delhi and Bombay and said it would temporarily close some diplomatic offices in Bombay as a precaution. Mideast Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's moderate number two Mahmud Abbas was adopted by the mainstream Fatah movement as its candidate to succeed him in January polls, social affairs minister Intissar al-Wazir said. Pakistan The husband of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, jailed on corruption charges in 1996, has been released after the Supreme Court granted him bail. Thailand A deputy governor was shot and injured by a suspected militant to become the highest-ranking casualty of an insurgency in Thailand's Muslim-majority south this year, police said.