China: IOC's Rogge accused of backtracking / Spain: ETA's De Juana Chaos freed / Turkey: PKK guerrillas arrested in Istanbul blasts / Afghanistan: Mine kills 10 in wedding party

Under pressure from the committee, Chinese organizers unblocked some sites at the main media center and venues, but others remained censored for journalists covering the Summer Games.

"We require that different media have the fullest access possible to report on the Olympic Games," Rogge said. "And I'm adamant in saying there has been no deal whatsoever to accept restrictions."

Chinese officials and high-ranking IOC members have repeatedly said there would be no censorship of Internet access for accredited journalists covering the Olympic Games, even though Chinese authorities regularly block sites used by citizens.

SPAIN

ETA killer freed from prison

A notorious and unrepentant Basque separatist convicted of killing 25 people, including a dozen policemen in a Madrid car bombing, walked out of a Spanish prison a free man after 21 years.

Jose Ignacio de Juana Chaos, 52, was released from a prison in Aranjuez, outside Madrid, exactly 40 years after the armed group ETA's first targeted killing.

ETA, which stands for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, or Basque Homeland and Freedom in the Basque language, has been fighting for an independent Basque nation since the late 1960s. More than 800 people have been killed.

De Juana Chaos, a former police officer who joined one of ETA's most active commando units, was arrested in 1987 and convicted two years later of killing 25 people in a string of attacks, including the Madrid car bombing that killed 12 Civil Guard policemen in 1986.

TURKEY

Kurdish guerrillas arrested in blasts

Kurdish guerrillas were behind a double bombing in Istanbul last week that killed 17 people, Turkey's interior minister said, adding that all those involved in the attack had been caught.

The blasts, 160 feet and 10 minutes apart, were the worst such attacks in Turkey since 2003 when Al Qaeda carried out a series of bombings in Istanbul. More than 150 people were injured in the explosions July 27.

An Istanbul court remanded into custody eight detainees in connection with the attack after a prosecutor accused them of membership in the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, state-run Anatolian news agency reported. The prosecutor will now prepare an indictment formally charging them.

The separatist PKK has denied involvement and there have been no claims of responsibility.

AFGHANISTAN

Mine kills 10 in wedding party

A bus carrying a wedding party struck a mine in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, killing the bride and groom and eight others, a police official said.

Provincial police chief Matiullah Khan said children were killed in the explosion, which he blamed on Taliban militants.

Eight people were wounded, he said.

An AP Television News cameraman later interviewed relatives who said the groom was wounded.

It was not immediately possible to reconcile the differing accounts.

IRAQ

Baghdad bombing kills 8, injures 14

Iraqi police said a vehicle bomb killed eight people and wounded 14 in northern Baghdad today.

A police officer said the explosion happened during rush hour in the Sunni district of Adhamiya. He said the explosives-laden small truck was parked about 200 yards from a passport office when the bomb went off.

The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

On Monday, three suicide bombers killed 32 people and wounded hundreds during a Shiite religious procession.

From Times Wire Reports