Vatican Pope John Paul II was taken back to the Gemelli clinic in Rome after suffering a relapse of the flu, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarrro-Valls announced, 14 days after the pontiff's discharge from his previous stay there. US US President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a tightly guarded summit here, with strains over autocratic reforms in Russia and Moscow's nuclear cooperation with Iran atop the agenda. Slovakia The United States pledged to help Russia join the World Trade Organization (WTO) this year, US and Russian Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin said in a joint statement. Mideast A new Palestinian cabinet dominated by technocrats and cleared of ministers from the Arafat era took office after prime minister Ahmed Qorei finally won approval from MPs for his radically overhauled line-up. Lebanon Syria, under intense international pressure to end its tight military and political grip on neighbouring Lebanon, was due to redeploy its troops towards the border, Lebanese officials said. India Two Islamic militants were killed after attacking Indian Kashmir's administrative headquarters, ending a bloody siege which trapped 250 people and saw the deaths of five others. Iraq A suicide bomber disguised as a policeman killed at least 10 people when he blew his car up at an Iraqi police headquarters, as haggling over top jobs in the new government intensified. Iraq In a move likely to dismay Washington, Ukraine's new defense minister said that his country plans to pull out all of its 1,650 troops in Iraq by the end of this year. Pakistan Pakistani forces have destroyed a network of Al-Qaeda factories churning out powerful bombs and propaganda compact discs and videos, key US ally President Musharraf said. Iran Rescuers gave up their search for survivors and victims of a devastating earthquake in southeastern Iran that turned remote mountain villages to rubble and left about 500 people dead. US Michael Jackson's child-molestation trial moved ahead, following the unexpectedly swift selection of a jury that included six mothers, no blacks and a woman whose sister was raped as a child.