Mideast Israeli troops are to pull back from the West Bank city of Jericho and the surrounding area in a four-week operation due to start on Wednesday, a top Palestinian official said. India US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to start a six-nation Asian tour in New Delhi, where her talks were expected to be dominated by bilateral economic relations and the ongoing India-Pakistan peace process, an official said. Lebanon Syrian military intelligence units began pulling our of positions in Beirut in what appeared to be a bid by Damascus to demonstrate a clear commitment to quitting Lebanon militarily once and for all. Croatia The European Union (EU) is set to delay the planned start of EU entry talks with Croatia this week because Zagreb is not helping fully in the hunt for a key war crimes suspect, diplomats said Tuesday. Chechnya Russia said that a 10-million-dollar bounty enabled it to locate and kill Chechnya's separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov as a popular daily cast doubt on the official version of how the moderate rebel chief died. Kosovo Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova survived without injury when a roadside bomb exploded as he rode to meet visiting EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, police said. Serbia A spate of Serb army officers deciding to surrender to the UN war crimes court at The Hague continued as the government in Belgrade tried to make its case for membership of the EU, but the "big fish" being sought over the wars of the 1990's remained at large. Iran Iran's foreign minister warned the European Union not to use "threats" in negotiations aimed at easing international concerns over the country's nuclear ambitions, saying Tehran was sticking by its demand to one day resume uranium enrichment. Pakistan Pakistani forces hunting Osama bin Laden lost track of the Al-Qaeda leader after coming close to discovering his whereabouts several months ago, President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview. Philippines Twenty-three people including three top leaders of an Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic group were killed when Philippine police stormed a maximum security prison to end a day-old revolt, officials said. Kenya At least 30 people were killed in northeastern Kenya when heavily armed Somali militiamen raided a village near the Kenyan-Somali border in what is believed to be the deadliest single attack in the region, police said.