Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari said that almost all issues dogging the draft constitution were resolved, but Sunni Arabs warned it was divisive and would be rejected when put to the nation. Mideast Troops stormed into a barricaded synagogue and an old fortress in the heart of Biblical Israel as they evacuated defiant settlers from the northern West Bank after the earlier pullout from the Gaza Strip. Mideast Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas telephoned Israeli President Moshe Katsav to offer his congratulations for the smooth completion of the operation to evict Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip. Niger UN Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived in Niger to assess the impact of a devastating famine in the largely desert west African country, one of the world's poorest, and talk to those dealing with it. Cycling Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong used a banned, endurance-boosting hormone during the first of his triumphs in 1999, the French sporting daily L'Equipe said in a report headlined "Armstrong's Lie". Japan A Japanese court rejected claims that a notorious contest by imperial troops to behead Chinese soldiers was a journalist's fabrication, giving critics of Japan's wartime past a rare legal victory. China Chinese destroyers, submarines and fighter planes were coordinating with a Russian missile destroyer and anti-submarine vessels in ongoing war games simulating a naval blockade, state media said. Jordan Jordan said it has arrested a Syrian national it suspects is the mastermind behind a rocket attack last week targeting US warships in the Red Sea port of Aqaba claimed by two Al-Qaeda linked groups. Austria Western Austria was on flood alert after several days of torrential rains that claimed a second life, as two people were killed and two missing in Switzerland where rain turned Alpine streams into deadly torrents. Portugal Nearly 3,000 firefighters and soldiers battled dozens of wildfires which continued to rage in parched Portugal as police found the charred body an elderly woman near her rural home, emergency services said. Britain An independent police complaints panel said it will finish a report into the fatal London shooting of a Brazilian man wrongly suspected of being a suicide bomber by the end of the year.