Grecce A Cypriot airliner with 121 people on board from Larnaca, Cyprus crashed near Athens after the pilots were spotted "doubled up", a traffic controller told AFP and Greek police suspect the crash was caused by a sudden drop in the cabin pressure, a senior official at the Greek public order ministry said. Mideast Israeli and Palestinian security forces were gearing up to play their parts in the historic Gaza Strip pullout as the clock ticked towards a midnight deadline for settlers to leave the territory voluntarily. Mideast The United Nations is to pull all its non-essential foreign staff out of the Gaza Strip until further notice after a spate of kidnappings in the territory, UN sources told AFP. Iran Iran warned the United States that any use of force over its nuclear programme would be a "mistake," and told Europe that its attitude would help determine whether it resumes uranium enrichment. Iran Iran's ultra-conservative President Mahmood Ahmadinejad unveiled his new cabinet, with hardliners taking up several key government posts. Iraq The US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said there was no agreement between the Iraqi parties yet on a new Iraqi consitution. SriLanka Sri Lanka rounded up scores of potential suspects during a massive hunt for Tamil Tiger rebels suspected of gunning down the foreign minister in an attack that has strained an already shaky ceasefire. NKorea-SKorea A high-level North Korean delegation paid a first visit to a South Korean war cemetery in a move towards reconciliation between two countries who have been technically at war for more than 50 years. Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev was sworn in as Kyrgyzstan's president, sealing a turbulent succession process that began with the seizure of the seat of government by opposition protestors in March and the flight of the country's first post-Soviet leader. Sudan A Sudanese committee set up to probe the death of first vice president and former rebel leader John Garang, which triggered days of deadly rioting, began its investigations.