Iraq Iraq's interim President Ghazi al-Yawar insisted that crucial elections would go ahead as planned, despite a sharp upsurge in deadly insurgent attacks that claimed more than 90 lives in three days. Ukraine Ukraine's outgoing President Leonid Kuchma said that a landmark supreme court ruling ordering a new presidential runoff ballot this month had to be respected, the Interfax news agency reported. OSCE The transatlantic, pan-European OSCE opened a two-day meeting with calls for the organization that was created in the Cold War to adapt to a new world of terrorist threats and national problems as in Ukraine. Britain Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, in London for talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, said the world was failing to tackle the root causes of global terrorism. 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 1,400 dead and missing. Japan Japanese anti-war campaigners said they planned a "people's tribunal" over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that could symbolically hold the United States responsible for war crimes. 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. France A disgruntled French soldier who had barricaded himself in an explosives depot gave himself up to the authorities, a regional government official said.