Ukraine Ukraine's supreme court gave the opposition a glimmer of hope by delaying publication of results of a disputed presidential vote, as Nobel peace laureate Lech Walesa mediated in the escalating political crisis. EU The European Union and Russia locked horns over the elections in Ukraine at an EU-Russia summit with Brussels stressing it would not accept the poll results while Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted that the results were "absolutely clear". Iraq Iraq said it had found a chemical bomb factory in the restive city of Fallujah as US-led forces rounded up scores of suspected insurgents in a major sweep through the country's "triangle of death." Iran Iran has so far failed to meet a pledge to fully suspend uranium enrichment as it wants to use 20 centrifuge devices for research, UN atomic agency chief Mohamed ElBardadei said, reporting a deadlock as his agency met on Tehran's alleged nuclear weapons program. Sudan One of the main rebel groups in Sudan's troubled Darfur region pledged to fully respect a truce with Khartoum amid a flurry of contradictory statements and international concern about an escalation in fighting. Mideast West Bank Fatah chief Marwan Barghuti sent word from his Israeli prison cell of his intention to run for the Palestinian presidency, risking a major split within the movement whose leaders have already given their backing to PLO chief Mahmud Abbas. Myanmar Myanmar said it would release a second batch of prisoners taking the total announced in a week to more than 9,000. The military regime said it would free 5,311 prisoners on top of the 3,937 announced last week, according to a state <a href="http://www.rmf.fm" target="_blank">radio</a> broadcast, although only several hundred have been released so far. Portugal Seven people, including a popular TV star and a former diplomat, went on trial Thursday in Portugal in a high-profile child abuse scandal involving minors from a network of state-run children's homes. Britain The dollar tumbled to new record lows against the euro and to a four-year nadir against the yen, buckling under the strain of imbalances in the US economy, and sending gold to 16-year peaks.