Myanmar's National League for Democracy party won most of the seats it contested in by-elections that were held in 45 constituencies. Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the democracy movement, won a seat just outside Yangon. It was the first time the NLD had participated in an election since 1990, when the result was overturned by the army. See article Co-ordinated bomb attacks in two cities in southern Thailand, in busy commercial and entertainment districts, killed 13 people and injured more than 300. An Islamist insurgent group that has been active in the south since 2004 is suspected of carrying out the attacks. The United States put up a cash reward of $10m for Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, a founder of the terrorist group that struck Mumbai in 2008. Wendy Sherman, America's undersecretary of state for political affairs, made the announcement during a visit to Delhi. The reward is one of the highest ever offered by America. Three wives and two daughters of Osama bin Laden were sentenced to 45 days in prison by a Pakistani court for staying in the country illegally. The women have been in custody for a month and will be deported after serving the remainder of their sentence. Rumours of a coup in China led the government to suspend comments on microblogging sites. Six people were arrested and several websites shut down. Comments were allowed to resume after three days. Speculation about political uncertainty in China has been growing since last month's sacking of Bo Xilai, a senior Communist official. Life imprisonment Colombia's FARC guerrillas released four soldiers and six police officers whom it had held hostage for up to 14 years. President Juan Manuel Santos welcomed the release, but said it was not a sufficient step for the government to start peace negotiations. Meeting in Washington, the presidents of the United States and Mexico and Canada's prime minister agreed to simplify and eliminate some trade regulations in North America. In a speech on the 30th anniversary of the outbreak of the Falklands war, Argentina's president, Cristina Fernández, called the British presence on the islands (which Latin America calls the Malvinas) "absurd," but announced no further measures against Britain or the islanders. In the wake of a visit by Pope Benedict, Cuba's communist government declared that Good Friday would be a public holiday. Only the beginning Spain's government unveiled the most austere budget the country has faced since General Franco's death in 1975, with cuts and tax rises totalling €27 billion ($36 billion). Yet given Spain's bleak economic outlook, even this may not be tough enough to cut the budget deficit as promised. Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister of Ukraine, was allowed to leave prison to be treated for a back condition. The opposition leader is serving a seven-year sentence for abusing her office while negotiating a natural-gas supply contract with Russia in 2009. The Ukrainian government appeared to be bowing to pressure from European Union leaders, who see Ms Tymoshenko's conviction as politically motivated. Pal Schmitt resigned as president of Hungary, after Budapest's Semmelweis University stripped him of his doctorate because of plagiarism. His resignation means that Viktor Orban, the prime minister, has lost a loyal ally who rubber-stamped all of the government's new, and contentious, laws. George Galloway, a hate figure for the British establishment, returned to the House of Commons after winning a by-election. Mr Galloway, whose various stints as an MP have come with their share of controversy, won his seat in Bradford, a city with a large South Asian population, mostly by touting his opposition to the war in Afghanistan. Some neighbourly advice Sudan and South Sudan held talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, following the heaviest fighting between them since the south gained independence last year. The two countries have quarrelled over oil. Mali's neighbours imposed a trade embargo in protest at a recent army coup. The coup's leaders responded with promises to restore the country's democratic constitution. Tuareg rebels meanwhile advanced from the north, seizing the city of Timbuktu. Officials in Yemen said government air raids killed about 40 al-Qaeda militants in the mountainous south, days after they had attacked a nearby army base leaving 30 dead. Syria agreed to an April 10th deadline to start implementing a UN-Arab League peace plan, but it still insists it will not pull troops out of cities until opposition forces disarm. Action on sanctions The White House increased pressure on Iran by determining that although oil markets remain tight, there is "sufficient supply of non-Iranian oil to permit foreign countries to significantly reduce their import of Iranian oil." America wants its allies to find more ways of depriving Iran of revenue from its oil. America's immigration authorities arrested 3,100 illegal immigrants, the vast majority of whom had previously been convicted of a crime. It was the largest operation of its kind; arrests were made in all 50 states. Mitt Romney won primaries in Maryland, Washington, DC, and Wisconsin. Senior Republicans again urged Rick Santorum, Mr Romney's main challenger for the party's presidential nomination, to end his campaign. The next big test will be on April 24th when five primaries will be held, including in Pennsylvania, Mr Santorum's home state. A former student at a Korean Christian vocational college in Oakland, California, shot seven people dead on campus. The head of the federal agency that provides basic services to government departments resigned after an internal report found that $823,000 had been spent on a training conference at a casino resort near Las Vegas, which included $75,000 on a team-building exercise to construct a bicycle.