World Digest: June 7, 2013 Suicide attackers rammed car bombs on Friday into a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims and a police checkpoint west of Baghdad, killing 19 people in all, in the latest bout of violence to shake Iraq. The attacks follow the deadliest two months in the country in half a decade, raising fears that it is descending into a new wave of widespread killing. On Friday morning, a suicide bomber drove his explosives-laden car into a bus carrying Iranian Shiite pilgrims on their way to visit shrines in the holy city of Najaf. The attack, in which police said 11 pilgrims died, occurred near the town of Muqdadiyah, 60 miles north of Baghdad. Since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, foreign pilgrims from Iran and other countries have poured into Najaf, whose Imam Ali shrine is one of the holiest sites for Shiite Muslims. In the evening, attackers drove two more car bombs into a major highway checkpoint between the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi in Sunni-dominated Anbar province west of Baghdad, detonating them nearly simultaneously. Four police officers and four civilians died in that attack, according to police. North, South bicker over site for talks The rival Koreas on Friday traded counterproposals over where to meet for talks Sunday, as mutual interest in mending abysmal ties clashed with mistrust stemming from years of animosity and hard-line stances. South Korea's suggestion that officials meet in a truce village straddling the heavily armed border between the countries came hours after Pyongyang said it favors holding talks in its border city of Kaesong. South Korea on Thursday had suggested high-level talks Wednesday in Seoul, but North Korea said Friday it wanted lower-level talks first because the countries" "relations have been stalemated for years and mistrust has reached the extremity." Seoul's Unification Ministry said South Korea made the latest proposal through a cross-border Red Cross communications line newly reopened by the North - itself a signal that tensions are easing. Hungary prepares for floodwaters" arrival The crest of the flood-swollen Danube River surged toward the Hungarian capital, Budapest, on Friday, while communities along the Elbe in Germany braced for high water as the river churned toward the North Sea. Elsewhere in central Europe, communities were beginning to count the cost of devastating floods that have hit Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic. At least 19 people have died over the past week, and experts say the economic damage in Germany alone could surpass $14.6 billion. The Danube's crest, at an all-time high, was expected to reach Budapest on Monday, and Mayor Istvan Tarlos said that in a worst-case scenario up to 55,000 people may need to be evacuated. Cambodia criminalizes denial of atrocities: Cambodia's National Assembly approved a bill making it a crime to deny that atrocities were committed by the country's genocidal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, a law that critics allege will be used as a weapon against the political opposition. The assembly passed the bill unanimously in the absence of opposition lawmakers, who were expelled from the legislature this week. Peruvian ex-president Fujimori is denied a pardon: Peru's President Ollanta Humala has decided not to grant a humanitarian pardon to jailed former leader Alberto Fujimori, Justice Minister Daniel Figallo said, adding that Humala had accepted a commission's conclusion that Fujimori's health problems are not serious enough to merit one. Fujimori, 74, is serving a 25-year term for human rights violations. IMF approves loan for Tunisia: The International Monetary Fund approved a $1.74 billion loan for Tunisia to ease the country's economic strains more than two years after the revolution that toppled the former regime. The IMF said Tunisia has embarked on a moderate economic recovery but is grappling with problems including a fragile banking sector, pressing social demands and high unemployment.