US-Iraq The US government will release a report saying Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction or concrete plans to make them, reports said, but President George W. Bush remained unrepentant over the 2003 invasion. EU-Turkey Turkey came a step closer to fulfilling a 40-year-old dream when the European Commission recommended that the European Union should begin membership talks with Ankara. Iraq A suicide car bomb ripped through a queue of young national guard recruits in western Iraq, killing 10 of them as Iraqi and US forces pursued their crackdown on the country's insurgency. Sweden Two Israelis and an American won the 2004 Nobel Chemistry Prize for groundbreaking biochemistry work that has major implications for the treatment of serious illnesses, especially cancer. Sudan-Britain British Prime Minister Tony Blair used a flying visit to Khartoum to hand the Sudanese leadership a list of demands to alleviate the "terrible" situation in the war-torn western region of Darfur. Afghanistan Afghan President Hamid Karzai's running mate survived an assassination attempt when a bomb killed two people in a convoy carrying him to an election rally, a government official said. US President George W. Bush attacked Democratic rival John Kerry over Iraq and the economy, hoping to sap his foe's momentum two days before their second televised debate. Mideast The Israeli army's vast operation in the northern Gaza Strip will carry on until rocket attacks by Palestinian militants on southern Israel and Gaza settlements completely stop, a senior government official told AFP. Iran Iran intends to resume the ultra-sensitive process of enriching uranium within months despite calls from the UN's nuclear watchdog that all fuel cycle work should be halted, a top Iranian MP told AFP. Korea The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog criticized the UN Security Council for failing to take action to curb North Korea's nuclear weapons program.