Japan At least 50 people were killed and up to 300 more were injured when a commuter train derailed and smashed into an apartment building in western Japan, the county's worst rail accident for 40 years. Iraq Iraqi leaders may finally unveil a new government 12 weeks after landmark elections as tensions grow between the country's Shiite majority and Sunni minority stoked by a string of bloody bomb attacks. NKorea South Korea warned a nuclear test would backfire on North Korea as Washington urged the Stalinist state to return to six-party talks aimed at ending the standoff over its nuclear programme. Lebanon Syria neared the completion of its troop pullout from Lebanon after three decades of political and military domination, while the Beirut regime's once powerful and highly secretive security apparatus appeared to be crumbling. Togo Vote-counting was under way in the west African state of Togo after a presidential election marred by the deaths of at least three people and marked by opposition claims of fraud. China China said it was monitoring moves by the European Union to put the brakes on imports of Chinese textiles but said it had received no official word of any investigation. Russia The 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union was the "biggest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his annual state of the nation address, adding that the main challenge for Russia was its development as a free, democratic country.