Mideast The Palestinian people were facing life post-Arafat the day after burying the only leader that most of them had ever known in chaotic and emotional scenes here. Mideast Kings, princes and presidents from across the world paid a last tribute to Yasser Arafat at a military funeral in Cairo, the city where the founding father of the Palestinian resistance was born. US-Britain President George W. Bush said there was now a "great chance" to create an independent, democratic and viable Palestinian state living at peace with Israel by the time he leaves office in 2009. US-Britain President George W. Bush said that US-led forces had made "substantial progress" towards securing Fallujah, and joined British Prime Minister Tony Blair in vowing that Iraq will be democratic. Iraq US troops tightened their grip on Fallujah but clashed with rebels in Iraq's third city of Mosul and outside Baghdad, where insurgents shot down a Black Hawk helicopter injuring three crew. US-Europe Looking to improve trans-Atlantic ties strained by the war in Iraq, Bush said he hoped to visit Europe "as soon as possible" after his January 20 inauguration. SKorea-US-NKorea South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun issued a strong warning to the United States that a hardline US policy over North Korea's nuclear weapons would have "grave repercussions." ICoast Details of rapes and other violence began to emerge after a week of unrest in Abidjan, as thousands of expatriates continued their exodus from Ivory Coast and African leaders moved to stem the crisis. Italy A state prosecutor called on a Milan court to impose an eight-year jail sentence on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of bribing judges. Netherlands-Turkey Dutch police raided a suspected Kurdish separatist training camp in a small village in the southern Netherlands and several other locations, arresting 38 people. Japan Beijing said it was continuing to look into claims that a submarine spotted this week in Japan's territorial waters was from the Chinese navy, as Tokyo waited for an apology over the incident. Thailand A 60-year-old Buddhist man was killed and seven people injured in a blast at a market in southern Thailand, the fourth in less than 24 hours in the violence-wracked Muslim-majority area, police said.