Iran Europe offered Iran a broad package of proposals in a bid to avert a crisis over its nuclear programme, acknowledging Tehran's right to nuclear energy as long as it does not seek atomic weapons. Iran The world will face a "major international crisis" if Iran rejects European proposals aimed at ensuring it cannot develop a nuclear arsenal, France warned, calling on the international community to be firm. Sudan Uganda's president said the chopper crash that killed Sudanese vice president John Garang may not have been an accident, dropping a bombshell on thousands mourning the death of the ex-rebel leader in south Sudan. Russia Russia rushed to save the crew of a military submarine trapped on the ocean floor with dwindling oxygen, and asked Japan and the United States for urgent help in a deep-sea rescue reminiscent of the Kursk submarine tragedy in 2000. Mideast Israeli Arabs vented their anger at what they called a culture of racism as they paid their last respects to four victims mown down by a Jewish gunman seeking to scupper the Gaza Strip pullout. India Villages in western and southern India were evacuated with at least 222,000 people moved to higher ground as waters released from near-bursting dams flooded vast rural tracts, officials said. Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari said that revered Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani was willing to accept a federal Iraq, boosting hopes of agreement between members of a committee tasked with drafting the constitution by an August 15 deadline. Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair announced a sweeping range of new powers to combat terrorism following the London bombings, warning hardline clerics in the country that "the rules of the game are changing". NKorea North Korea and the United States failed to make headway in marathon disarmament talks after the Stalinist state insisted it must retain the right to operate nuclear programs for peaceful purposes. Indonesia Indonesia: US mining giant Newmont went on trial in a high-profile legal battle over charges its Indonesian unit dumped toxic waste and polluted a bay near its mine, causing health problems to residents.