Russia Chechen rebels vowed to continue their battle against Russia after the death of their leader Aslan Maskhadov, sparking fears that the passing of the moderate chief will lead to increased attacks by radical separatists in the war-torn republic. Iraq Thirty people were found shot dead on the Iraq-Syrian border while a suicide truck bomb attack on Baghdad's agriculture ministry and a hotel killed two security guards and wounded 31. Lebanon Lebanese President Emile Lahoud was expected to ask the prime minister who resigned last week back to the job after a mass pro-Syrian rally underlined sharp internal divisions over the role of Damascus as it began a much-watched military pullback. Ukraine Ukraine prosecutors said for the first time that they planned to question former president Leonid Kuchma as part of their investigation into the grisly murder of an opposition journalist in 2000. Mideast A top Palestinian official said that all armed militant groups were set to observe a truce but Israel voiced caution as army commanders prepared to transfer control of West Bank towns to the Palestinians. Kosovo Former Kosovo prime minister and guerrilla leader Ramush Haradinaj, indicted by the UN war crimes court, arrived in the Netherlands and was to be transferred to the court's detention centre in The Hague. Bosnia Bosnia's first home-grown war crimes court was inaugurated in what has been described as a milestone for justice following the 1992-95 conflict in the former Yugoslav republic. China China ignored a US call for it to rethink a law that provides a legal basis for military action against Taiwan, telling lawmakers it was their "solemn mission" to pass the legislation. Britain British Prime Minister Tony Blair rejected a demand for a further concession over his government's anti-terrorism bill after a partial climbdown by Home Secretary Charles Clarke. Philippines Up to 28 primary school children died from apparent poisoning after eating the tropical food crop cassava in the central Philippine province of Bohol, officials said. Iran Negotiators from Iran and the European Union met in Geneva on Tehran's nuclear program, with Iran flatly refusing to accede to the Europeans' key demand that it abandon uranium enrichment, which the United States holds it is using to make atom bombs. Spain Experts from around the world examined terrorism's wide-reaching effects, on the second day of an international conference in Madrid that has already questioned the US "war on terror".