Lebanon Pro-Syrian politician Omar Karameh agreed to return as Lebanon's prime minister at the head of a national unity cabinet, in a move promptly rejected by the opposition as a "provocation." HongKong Hong Kong leader Tung Chee-hwa resigned, citing health reasons for cutting short an eight-year tenure plagued by economic recession, policy blunders and unease over China's interference. Iraq A police chief was gunned down in Baghdad in an ambush that also killed two of his companions, as a wave of violence swept through Iraq one week before the newly-elected parliament meets to choose a new government. Pakistan Pakistan's disgraced nuclear hero Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan provided Iran with parts to centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium, a cabinet minister said. Vatican Pope John Paul II will remain in hospital "for a few more days," though he will be back at the Vatican by March 20, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said. Rwanda Trials for the first of hundreds of thousands of suspects accused of participating in Rwanda's 1994 genocide began nationwide before village tribunals. Pakistan At least four people were killed and around 100 injured when fire broke out aboard an oil tanker in the Pakistani port city of Karachi and quickly spread to the surrounding area, officials said. Spain The international community must unite if it hopes to eradicate terrorism, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told an international anti-terrorism conference in Madrid. Mideast The Palestinian Authority accused Israel of dragging its feet over promised confidence-building gestures after talks stalled on West Bank security handovers and a gunman was killed. Asia Indonesia and Sri Lanka, devastated by the tsunami disaster in late December, have been given a moratorium until December 31 on repayment of their debt owed to Paris Club members, the Paris Club said. South Africa One miner was still missing and a dead body yet to be recovered from a gold pit, when 36 miners were rescued a day after a quake in South Africa's mining heartland. Russia Chechen rebels announced that an obscure religious leader would succeed their longtime chief Aslan Maskhadov, as the separatists in Russia's war-torn province regrouped after the killing of the moderate president by Moscow forces. France France's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games received a hard knock as trade unions staged a nationwide day of strikes, demonstrations and transport stoppages just as an IOC team began an inspection tour of the proposed Paris sites. UN More than 100 Africans are feared to have been drowned when smugglers taking them to Yemen forced them to jump into the sea or their boat sank, the UN refugee agency said.