US US President George W. Bush vowed to press his global war on terror, declaring that "the survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands." US-Bush-speech Iraq A deadline set by Islamist kidnappers threatening to kill eight Chinese expired with no word on the hostages' fate, as more bloodshed marred the start of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha. Iran Iran's visiting President Mohammad Khatami warned the United States here that his country would defend itself from any hostile US action, as the war of words between Tehran and Washington escalated. Mideast Hundreds of Palestinian security forces were being redeployed to the northern Gaza Strip with orders from their newly elected leader, Mahmud Abbas, to prevent attacks by militants on Israel. DRCongo President Thabo Mbeki will make a one-day peace mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday before heading to Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, his office said. Ukraine Ukraine set a date for Viktor Yushchenko's long-delayed inauguration, hours after the supreme court cleared the way for the pro-Western reformer to assume power in the ex-Soviet nation following months of political turmoil. IAEA UN inspectors investigating undeclared nuclear activity in Egypt that could be related to atomic weapons development are checking out a reprocessing lab for making plutonium, diplomats said. Asia Tens of thousands of Sri Lankans displaced by the island's long-running ethnic conflict should be included in the government's post-tsunami resettlement plans, the UN refugee agency said. Ireland Two men arrested after a pipe bomb was discovered here are being questioned about the activities of the dissident Northern Irish Catholic paramilitary splinter group the Continuity IRA, or CIRA, police said. Spain A court trying an Argentine former navy officer charged with genocide during his country's 1976-1983 dictatorship heard how children born to detained female dissidents were systematically stolen to be turned over to military families.