Vatican Doctors gave Pope John Paul II the all-clear to leave hospital Sunday, the Vatican announced, 18 days after he underwent throat surgery to ease acute breathing problems associated with flu and Parkinson's disease. Lebanon-Syria Lebanon pledged to work with the United Nations to secure a full Syrian military withdrawal from its territory but insisted that Lebanese and Syrian authorities would set the date for a final pullout. Mideast Secretary General Kofi Annan kicked off days of frenetic diplomacy in the Middle East with dozens of international statesmen due to arrive amid intense efforts to revive the peace process. Mideast-Israel Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced a ministerial review after a damaging report found his government had aided construction of wildcat settlement outposts in the West Bank despite US calls for them to be dismantled. Italy Three people were injured in an explosion at a church near the northern Italian town of Trevigiano which could be the latest in a series of blasts linked to the so-called "Italian Unabomber". China President Hu Jintao was named China's top military chief, promptly telling the army to prepare for war to safeguard the country's territorial integrity, in an apparent reference to Taiwan. Chile-Argentina-Germany Argentina expelled fugitive ex-Nazi Paul Schaefer to Chile where he has been sought for eight years and charged in absentia for child abuse. US A gunman opened fire at a religious service being held in a hotel in the US city of Brookfield, Wisconsin, killing eight people before turning the weapon fatally on himself, police said. Iraq BAGHDAD: Kurdish parties debated joining a coalition government with Iraq's election-winning Shiite alliance as two US security contractors were killed in a bomb blast and 12 corpses were found south of Baghdad. Kyrgyzstan The Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan held run-off parliamentary polls amid a wave of protests against the country's Soviet-era leadership and allegations of widespread vote-rigging. Somalia Several warlords controlling the Somali capital pledged to pull out thousands of gunmen from bullet-ridden Mogadishu to pave the way for a safe relocation of the country's government still exiled in Kenya.