Greece All 121 people aboard a Cypriot airliner died after it smashed into a wooded hillside near Athens after air force pilots said the crew of the Boeing 737 appeared "doubled up" in the cabin. Mideast Israeli forces prepared to pile into the Gaza Strip as the deadline for settlers to leave loomed after their chief of staff insisted the evacuation would not be a war. Mideast The United Nations is to pull all its non-essential foreign staff out of the Gaza Strip until further notice after a spate of kidnappings in the territory, UN sources told AFP. SriLanka Sri Lanka rounded up scores of potential suspects during a massive hunt for Tamil Tiger rebels suspected of gunning down the foreign minister in an attack that has strained an already shaky ceasefire. Iraq Iraqi leaders held last-ditch meetings to draft a constitution ahead of Monday's deadline as members of the panel suggested a compromise charter could be ready on time even without Sunni approval. Iran Iran's ultra-conservative President Mahmood Ahmadinejad unveiled a new hardline cabinet as Tehran warned the West not to resort to bullying over its nuclear programme. NKorea A high-level North Korean delegation paid a first visit to a South Korean war cemetery in a move towards reconciliation between two countries who have been technically at war for more than 50 years. Algeria Algeria will hold a referendum on September 29 on a draft charter for peace and national reconciliation, national television quoted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika as saying. Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev was sworn in as Kyrgyzstan's president, sealing a turbulent succession process that began with the seizure of the seat of government by opposition protestors in March and the flight of the country's first post-Soviet leader. Sudan A Sudanese committee set up to probe the death of first vice president and former rebel leader John Garang, which triggered days of deadly rioting, began its investigations.