Poland World leaders pleaded for the horrors of the Holocaust never to be forgotten as they marked the liberation 60 years ago of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz where more than a million people died. Iraq At least 19 people were killed in Iraq as insurgents intensified attacks on Iraqi and US targets, and election workers backed by troops started distributing ballot boxes for the vote in three days time. US President George W. Bush has predicted that weekend elections in Iraq will be "a grand moment" in that country's history despite a deadly campaign of violence by insurgents eager to derail the vote. Britain Britain's government was forced into a swift defence of planned new anti-terror laws allowing suspects -- including Britons -- to be held indefinitely under house arrest without trial, measures condemned by one newspaper as "unprecedented in peacetime". US Four Britons freed from up to three years at the US Guantanamo Bay detention centre were spending their first day at liberty after British police decided to press no charges, with one father saying his son had "come from hell". Asia The multinational relief effort in parts of Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province is chaotic, an official report showed as the number presumed dead continued to rise. Asia Negotiating teams from Indonesia's government and the main rebel movement in Aceh province, where a long-running conflict was overshadowed by last month's devastating tsunami disaster, arrived in Finland for peace talks, officials said. Mideast Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas called on Israel to make a swift response to demands for a mutual ceasefire with armed factions as a top official said some 900 Palestinian prisoners would soon be released by Israel. Mideast Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei issued orders forbidding anyone but members of the security services from carrying weapons, negotiations minister Saeb Erakat told AFP. Switzerland Rock star and anti-poverty campaigner, Bono, and computer billionaire Bill Gates warned the leaders of rich countries they were carrying the hopes of a generation with promises to end poverty in Africa. US Douglas Feith, the undersecretary of defense for policy who helped to define the US policy of preemption that propelled the US-led invasion of Iraq, has decided to resign after a four-year term, Pentagon officials said.