Japan A strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale and swarms of aftershocks rocked central Japan and the capital Tokyo, killing at least ten people including four children, officials said. Iraq Twin suicide car bombs killed 11 Iraqi police and guards on , as US troops captured a top aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Islamic militant behind a wave of attacks and kidnappings. Afghanistan A Taliban suicide bomber struck a famous Kabul shopping strip, killing a young Afghan bookseller and wounding nine people including three peacekeepers in the boldest attack since the peaceful October 9 election. Kosovo A boycott by the Serb minority overshadowed Kosovo's general election, the second in the province since the 1998-99 war between Serbian forces and ethnic Albanian separatists. US George W. Bush courted votes in Florida, the crucial swing state that delivered him the White House in 2000, as his opponent, Senator John Kerry, accused the president of using scare tactics to win reelection. North Korea The United States will not accept North Korean demands as "conditions" for the resumption of stalled talks on resolving the Korean nuclear deadlock but Pyongyang is free to raise them if it returns to the table, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said. Sudan A final group of rebel field commanders arrived here from the wartorn western Sudanese province of Darfur, clearing the way for the start of formal peace negotiations with the Khartoum government. Algeria Sixteen people have been killed in an attack by an armed group of suspected Islamist militants in southern Algeria, state television said, in the latest bloodshed in an Islamic extremist rebellion that has claimed some 150,000 lives in the country since 1992. Austria Austrian officials said they had recovered the body of a missing German climber who won fame when he found a mummified 5,300-year-old human body in the Alps in 1991.