Iran Iran removed seals placed by the UN nuclear watchdog at a key atomic plant, allowing the facility to return to full capacity and raising the stakes in a standoff with the international community, as UN atomic agency diplomats remained locked in closed-door talks on an EU proposal to urge Tehran to stop fuel cycle work. Iraq Rebels have killed at least 18 people across Iraq, including six in a car bomb in west Baghdad and four US soldiers in the north of the country, officials said. Turkey Turkish police have detained 10 people suspected of having links to the Al-Qaeda network and suspected of plotting attacks on Israeli cruise ships in southern Turkey, security sources said. Britain Terrorists are sizing up the City of London, Europe's premier financial centre, and an attack on the teeming district is only a matter of time, its chief of police warned. Philippines A series of powerful explosions ripped through Zamboanga city in the southern Philippines and injured at least 14 people, officials and <a href="http://www.rmf.fm" target="_blank">radio</a> reports said. Malaysia Malaysia said it would hold crisis talks with Indonesia over the choking haze caused by fires in Sumatra, which has reached hazardous levels and forced Kuala Lumpur's second airport to close. Estonia Estonian rescuers were searching the cold waters of the Baltic Sea for survivors after a helicopter with 14 passengers and crew on board crashed shortly after takeoff from the capital, Tallinn. Mideast Palestinian security forces were preparing to deploy around settlements in the Gaza Strip as preparations for Israel's pullout accelerated one week before the start of the evacuation. Japan Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's popularity rose sharply after he called snap elections, opinion polls showed, countering critics who warned he was setting the stage for his own defeat. Ethiopia Two months after deadly election-related violence rocked the Ethiopian capital, the government warned the opposition against any move to "undermine" legal institutions as it threatened to fight the official results of disputed May polls. Japan Japan needs to reconsider its decades-old "defense only" policy and become prepared to strike first to ward off attack from existing and new threats, an influential think-tank said. Nepal Nepal's army searched in driving monsoon rains for 75 soldiers missing after a major attack by Maoist rebels in which at least 40 servicemen were killed as the UN urged the guerrillas to treat any captives humanely, the military and a report said. China Two mayors in southern China have been suspended after an unlicensed coal mine flooded at the weekend as the first body of the 123 miners trapped inside was found, state media said.