Ukraine Ukraine's constitutional court struck down a section of a recently adopted electoral law in a decision welcomed by both camps ahead of a tense, historic presidential rerun election set for Sunday. Iraq Rescuers lifted blackened corpses in Baghdad from the ruins of a Christmas Eve suicide truck bombing that killed eight people, further unnerving Iraq's embattled Christian community. Mideast Palestinian presidential frontrunner Mahmud Abbas launched his campaign in defiant fashion, demanding a full Israeli pullout from occupied lands, release of all prisoners and the right of return for refugees. Vatican City In a Christmas overshadowed by violence and the threat of conflict around the world, Pope John Paul II expressed "great apprehension" over the situation in Iraq but optimism at the outlook for Middle East peace. Indonesia Christians in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-populated country, flocked to churches to celebrate Christmas under tight security following warnings of possible terrorist attacks. Iraq A Turkish television channel aired footage showing a Turkish businessman who said he had been kidnapped along with a worker in Iraq by a group of unidentified militants. Nepal Nepal's government invoked anti-hoarding and price control laws to stem rises in food and fuel prices as a Maoist blockade of the capital entered a third day, state-run radio announced. North Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has declared his country has no plan to invade South Korea, and that instead a reverse threat existed, Radio Pyongyang said. Spain Police arrested a fourth man in northeast Spain in a probe into a group of Moroccans suspected of having international terrorist links after they tried to obtain explosives, sources close to the investigation said. US The European-made space probe Huygens headed for a historic up-close encounter with Titan, the only celestial body of the Solar System with an atmosphere resembling that of Earth, after successfully separating from the US spacecraft Cassini. Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmonov of the central Asian republic of Tajikistan has accused a general arrested last August of plotting a military coup, saying he had been behind eight bomb attacks including two outside the interior ministry.