US President George W. Bush is expected to appoint his national security advisor Condoleezza Rice to replace Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has resigned his post along with several other members of the Bush cabinet, senior officials said. Iraq US and Iraqi forces backed by aircraft swept into the northern Iraqi city of Mosul to secure police stations and restore order as insurgents in Fallujah fought US-led troops to the death. Iraq The US Defense Department is investigating the shooting of an apparently wounded and unarmed Iraqi prisoner by a US marine in a mosque in Fallujah, Iraq, NBC news said. Spain The Spanish supreme court sentenced a teenager implicated in the March 11 Madrid train bombings to six years in youth detention after he pleaded guilty to handling explosives used in Spain's worst terrorist attack on the opening day of his trial. Mideast Hamas will not participate in January's election to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestinian Authority, the radical Islamist movement's leader in the Gaza Strip said. Mideast New PLO leader Mahmud Abbas was to hold a further round of talks with Palestinian factions in a bid to prevent an outbreak of mass violence before a successor to Yasser Arafat can be elected. Moon Europe's first mission to the Moon, the unmanned exploratory probe SMART-1, has been safely placed in lunar orbit after a voyage of more than 13 months, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced. Ivory Coast Ivory Coast was put under an arms embargo after a unanimous vote in the UN Security Council aimed at quelling violence that has convulsed the west African powerhouse and sent thousands of foreigners and citizens fleeing. Iran Pragmatists in Iran's clerical regime were under pressure from hardliners who lined up to condemn an agreement to suspend sensitive nuclear activities in line with international demands. India India will begin withdrawing troops from Kashmir Wednesday to coincide with a visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh aimed at winning "hearts and minds" in the insurgency-racked state, officials said. Japan China offered Japan the apology it demanded for the intrusion of a nuclear submarine in its waters and said the incident would not further sour the Asian powers' relations, Japanese officials said.