Lebanon Lebanon's Damascus-backed leaders faced a huge public backlash and mounting international pressure to find the killers of former premier Rafiq Hariri, with Syria in the dock over his murder. US President George W. Bush nominated US ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte as the country's first director for national intelligence to oversee all 15 US spy agencies. Iraq Shiite and Kurdish domination of Iraq's parliament were confirmed by the announcement of official election results, bringing the country's rocky electoral process to a close but heralding a period of intense political wrangling. Mideast Israel ordered a halt to the army's demolitions of the homes of Palestinian suicide bombers after an internal review found that the controversial policy had little deterrent effect. Zimbabwe Zimbabwe police wearing riot-control gear beat up protesters, arresting 14 of them, during a march in downtown Harare to demand free and fair elections, the organisers said. US US President George W. Bush sought to reassure Europe on Iran and climate change, and he hoped to bury "differences of the past" on issues like Iraq during his pending transatlantic trip. EU Croatia, faced with the threat of a delay to the start of its EU accession talks, has promised the European Union it will do whatever is necessary to arrest and deliver fugitive general Ante Gotovina to the UN war crimes court. Ukraine The US-born justice minister in the new Ukrainian government threatened to quit, complaining of undue interference in his ministry from lawmakers with powerful holdings in the oil sector and pressure on his family to engage in unspecified "corruption." US US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signaled that the United States was ready to restore full military training ties with Indonesia that were downgraded 13 years ago. Pacific Fears were held for nine fishermen missing at sea off Samoa and American Samoa two days after Super Cyclone Olaf swept through the region.