Iraq US marines stormed an area considered the rebel heartland of Fallujah and seized control of the Iraqi city's train station, a marine officer told AFP. Iraq US forces began intense shelling across the city of Fallujah after Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi gave the go-ahead for an all-out assault on the rebel enclave. Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, announcing he had authorised an assault on the rebel stronghold of Fallujah, imposed a curfew and other emergency measures on the insurgent enclave. Mideast Four of Yasser Arafat's top lieutenants headed to Paris to visit the ailing Palestinian leader despite bitter accusations by his wife that they were planning a deathbed coup. Mideast Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is in "stable condition" but doctors have restricted visits to his bedside in a French military hospital, the French armed forces health department said. ICoast French troops fired shots in the air to disperse protesters outside a hotel where a crisis meeting was set to address a sudden escalation in the country's civil war and a surge in anti-French sentiment. Australia The world must take immediate action against the real threat of nuclear terrorism to prevent a September 11-style outrage, the head of the UN's atomic energy watchdog agency warned. Cuba The US dollar disappeared from stores, hotels and restaurants in Cuba in what communist leader Fidel Castro has called a move to counter US attempts to stifle the island's economy. South Korea The UN nuclear agency is to present a report on South Korea next week ahead of a decision on whether the US ally should be taken to the UN Security Council for violating international nuclear safeguards, diplomats said.