Iraq Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's militia handed in hundreds of weapons in Baghdad, as the US military focused its fire on Iraq's rebel-held Sunni Muslim bastion of Fallujah. Iraq-Britain The British government formally withdrew one of the key arguments it had used for invading Iraq, as it faced demands in parliament for a "full apology" on how it presented the case for war. Afghanistan Counting of votes in Afghanistan's disputed presidential election could begin as soon as Wednesday, the UN-Afghan electoral commission said. Pakistan-China A Pakistani militant leader said he had refused to meet a council of tribal elders trying to secure the release of two Chinese hostages held by his group. Mideast Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was stepping up his efforts to stitch together a new governing coalition after his Gaza pullout plan suffered an embarrassing reverse in parliament. Russia Russia announced plans to break up Yukos in a crippling blow to Russia's largest oil producer and its billionaire founder who dared to challenge President Vladimir Putin's rule. Nigeria Defiant Nigerian union leaders took a nationwide general strike into a second day, determined to force President Olusegun Obasanjo to back down over his refusal to stem rising fuel prices. Holland The Bosnian Serb army's former security chief, facing genocide charges for his alleged role in coordinating the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, called on his "comrades in arms" to turn themselves in during his first appearance before the UN war crimes court here. Holland The marathon trial of Slobodan Milosevic resumed at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague with testimony about the 1999 killing of some 45 people in the Kosovo town of Racak. US Envoys from the Group of Eight industrialized nations are to meet here this week to discuss offering incentives to Iran in a last-ditch effort to get the Islamic republic to suspend its uranium enrichment activities that could be used to make nuclear weapons, State Department officials said.