Iraq At least 21 people, including 17 Iraqis working for the US military, were killed as a senior UN official warned that crucial elections could not be held in the current climate of violence. Ukraine Ukraine entered its third week of political crisis with a new deadlock, as the opposition clashed with the ruling regime over changing the constitution ahead of a new runoff presidential vote ordered by the supreme court. US-Pakistan Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden's trail has gone cold, and US and Pakistani officials have no active leads on where he might be hiding, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said in a spate of interviews. Mideast German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said he detected an historic opportunity to advance towards a Palestinian state as he reinforced international efforts to revive the Middle East peace process. Philippines Relief goods poured into storm-ravaged areas of the Philippines as rescuers made a last-ditch effort to find hundreds of people still unaccounted for after storms that left more than 1,100 dead and missing. Kazakhstan Twenty-three coal miners died when a methane gas blast tore through a mine owned by a global Indian steel producer in Central Asia's Kazakhstan, the latest accident to strike the post-Soviet mining industry. Hungary Voters in Hungary failed to turn out in sufficient numbers to pass a referendum to extend citizenship to millions of ethnic Hungarians living in the region, a motion that split the country and drew fire from neighboring governments. DRCongo Two militia fighters were killed and two UN peacekeepers and a civilian wounded during a major operation to disarm an armed group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled Ituri region, the UN mission said. US-Romania Romania demanded the return to the country of a US marine for questioning in the investigation of a suspected drunk driving accident that cost the life of a prominent Romanian rock musician.