Mideast Israel completed its evacuation of parts of the occupied Palestinian territories after the last hardline resistance to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's historic pullout crumbled. Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari said 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. Peru At least 52 persons survived a jet crash in Peru's Amazon basin and 37 were killed, officials said and called off rescue efforts at the muddy crash site for the night. Iraq US President George W. Bush urged Iraq's Sunni minority, whose negotiators have rejected a draft constitution, to embrace the blueprint as the way forward in their war-torn country. Portugal More than 3,200 firefighters and soldiers backed by aircraft from five European nations battled wildfires which raged in parched Portugal, while police found the charred body an elderly woman near her rural home, emergency services said. Niger UN Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived in Niger to "see for myself" the impact of a devastating famine in the largely desert west African country. Britain A delegation from Brazil voiced confidence in a British investigation into the fatal shooting of a Brazilian man in London last month and dismissed the suggestion of a police cover-up for now. US-NKorea The chief US negotiator with North Korea said he did not believe the issue of whether Pyongyang should have the right to eventually pursue civilian nuclear power was "a show-stopper" to an agreement on ridding it of nuclear weapons. China A bus hired to take young children home from school plowed into a crowded sidewalk in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, killing 18 people and injuring 16, state press said. USA 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, an accusation furiously denied by the cyclist.