US Hurricane Katrina pounded vulnerable New Orleans with howling winds, damaging the roof of the Superdome stadium where thousands had sought refuge, knocking out power, flooding streets and threatening a wide swath of the US Gulf Coast. Iraq Iraq distributed millions of copies of its hard-won draft constitution throughout the country as the battleground moved to the hustings after weeks of tortuous negotiations over the final text. Iraq Police said insurgents executed 15 Iraqis after ambushing their vehicle on a road north of the rebel stronghold of Fallujah. Afghanistan The United Nations counter-narcotics chief said Afghanistan had reduced the production and cultivation of opium for the first time since the Taliban regime fell in 2001. China EU trade chief Peter Mandelson vowed to do everything in his power to break a logjam that has left millions of cheap Chinese-made clothes blocked at European ports. NKorea Communist North Korea said it would not return to six-nation talks on its nuclear program until the week of September 12, blaming the delay on military exercises between the United States and South Korea. Mideast Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Israel will not hold onto all its West Bank settlements, less than a week after overseeing an historic pullout from parts of the occupied Palestinian territories. Venezuela Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has warned he will lodge a complaint against the United States at the United Nations and other international bodies if the US government fails to act against television evangelist Pat Robertson, who has called for Chavez's assassination. Spain A Belgian court ordered 13 alleged Islamist militants suspected of indirect links with terror attacks in Casablanca and Madrid to go on trial here later this year. France Acting in response to a series of civil aviation disasters, both France and Belgium published a list of airlines banned from their airspace for safety reasons.