Egypt Egyptian police exchanged fire with gunmen as they hunted for six Pakistanis suspected of involvement in deadly bombings in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Iraq The Iraqi capital was hit by twin suicide car bombs that killed at least eight people as Australian Prime Minister John Howard, a top US ally in Iraq, made a surprise visit to Baghdad. Britain British police arrested two more people as they scrambled to hunt down four bombers still on the loose after last week's botched attempt to blow up three London Underground trains and a bus. Egypt President Pervez Musharraf said Al-Qaeda had been dismembered in Pakistan and could not have directed the bomb blasts in Egypt and London from his country. NKorea The United States described a rare initial meeting with a North Korea delegation as "businesslike" on the eve of six-nation talks aimed at ending the Stalinist state's nuclear ambitions. Afghanistan One US soldier was killed in heavy fighting that also left an Afghan serviceman and 11 insurgents dead in south-central Afghanistan. Italy MILAN: An Italian appeals court ordered the arrest of six CIA operatives accused of involvement in the 2003 kidnapping of a radical Muslim cleric from a street in Milan. Philippines Embattled Philippine President Gloria Arroyo proposed overhauling her country's political system as she tried to face down a new impeachment motion and a mass protest calling for her to resign. Mideast Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said that he was relocating to the Gaza Strip where he would be based until the completion of Israel's pullout from the occupied territory.