UN The foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany will meet with their Iranian counterpart in a bid to defuse tensions over Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons program, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said. UN Iraqi President Jalal Talabani issued a desperate appeal to world leaders for help in overcoming terrorist "forces of darkness," amid a fresh wave of deadly suicide bombings in Baghdad. Indonesia Separatist rebels in Indonesia's Aceh province began handing over their guns under a pact designed to end almost three decades of war. Iraq Suicide bombers struck Baghdad for the second day, killing at least 23 people, after a devastating string of car bomb attacks left some 150 dead and several hundred more wounded. NKorea Six-nation delegates trying to negotiate an end to North Korea's nuclear weapons drive said that the talks had reached a stalemate over Pyongyang's demand for the right to run atomic power stations. US President George W. Bush was to head back to storm-racked New Orleans as his popularity plumbed new lows and the death toll from Hurricane Katrina rose further. IEA The International Energy Agency said it would stick by its plan to release emergency reserves of oil amid fears of shortages after Hurricane Katrina. Britain Britain detained seven foreigners pending deportation and pushed ahead with plans to hold security suspects for three months without charge as part of a crackdown following the July bombings. Mideast Israel's supreme court ordered a section of the controversial West Bank separation barrier to be torn down as it imprisons thousands of Palestinian villages for the sake of a Jewish enclave. Germany Lagging badly three days before federal elections, Germany's ruling parties made a last-ditch scramble to sway undecided voters and stop conservative leader Angela Merkel's march to power.