US A federal appeals court turned down an emergency request by the parents of a severely brain-damaged woman in Florida to have her feeding tube reinserted. Lebanon Two people were killed when a bomb ripped through a shopping center in a Christian area, in the second violent incident since the assassination last month of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri plunged Lebanon into political turmoil. Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev fired his interior minister and general prosecutor, as the opposition vowed to step up protests over a parliamentary poll that have simmered in the volatile south in the Central Asian nation. EU European Union leaders vowed to re-energise the 25-nation bloc's flagging economy by pushing ahead with much-needed reforms, as they opened their traditional spring economic summit. Iraq Eighty insurgents were killed in an operation involving Iraqi and US forces against a suspected training camp near Lake Tharthar, north of Baghdad, an Iraqi army commander said. Iraq Iraq's Shiite and Kurdish leaders allocated ministries for the first elected post-Saddam Hussein government, while police announced the arrest of 30 men implicated in dozens of murders, beheadings and rapes. Mideast Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon secured support for a vote on the 2005 budget ahead of a showdown on the bill next week, as Palestinian forces took control of a second West Bank city. Pakistan Peace moves by India and Pakistan could stall unless the two sides make progress on the key issue of Kashmir, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said. UN Deadlocked Security Council diplomats were to meet to discuss three UN resolutions on Sudan proposed by the United States, with pressure mounting to stop the bloodshed in Darfur. Somalia The crisis over the relocation from exile of Somalia's transitional government deepened as powerful warlords said they would move to impeach President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed. US The remote town of Red Lake grieved for the victims of the latest shooting rampage to stun the United States, after a teenage gunman drove a stolen police car up to his school and then randomly shot at students and teachers. Monaco Prince Rainier of Monaco, who has been in hospital since March 7 with a lung ailment, remained in intensive care after taking a turn for the worse, several sources said.