Iraq Insurgents set off a car bomb and attacked polling stations and security forces in several Iraqi cities, killing at least six people as Iraqi exiles across the globe began voting in their country's landmark election. Iraq Thousands of Iraqis living outside their country began voting in general elections, with polls opening around the world and notably in key Middle East countries. US US troops will pull out of Iraq if the new leaders to be elected on Sunday requested it, President George W. Bush said in an interview published by The New York Times, although he added that he expected the Iraqis to ask US troops to remain as helpers, not occupiers. Mideast The radical Islamist movement Hamas was celebrating a landslide victory in the first local elections in the Gaza Strip, winning 77 out of the 118 seats up for grabs, election commission sources said. Mideast The Palestinian security services deployed some 2,000 armed police officers in the south of the Gaza Strip under orders to prevent rocket attacks on nearby Israeli settlements. Finland Indonesian government officials and separatists from the Free Aceh movement were due to hold their first face-to-face talks in over a year, meeting thousands of miles from the tsunami-shattered region in Finland, officials said. Indonesia Indonesia said it was probing an alleged misuse of tsunami funds donated by the public as fears grew that the country's notorious corruption culture was eating into vital relief cash. US US household and personal grooming giant Procter and Gamble Co. said it had signed a deal to acquire 100 percent of Gillette Co., in a stock deal valued at around 57 billion dollars (44 billion euros). Vietnam Vietnam recorded its 10th bird flu fatality in a month as US researchers said they had the first scientific evidence to confirm worries the avian virus could be transmitted from one human to another.