Uzbekistan More than 50 people have been killed in fighting in Uzbekistan's fourth-largest city, a doctor said as government troops continued to move against gunmen who freed prisoners including 23 men on trial for Islamic extremism. Philippines Soldiers killed six members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf Muslim extremist group in a clash on the southern Philippine island of Jolo, military officials said. NKorea North Korea proposed the resumption of inter-Korean dialogue which has been suspended for nearly a year, calling for a working-level contact early next week in the North Korean border town of Kaesong, Pyongyang said. US The United States ordered quotas to curb a flood of Chinese textile imports, a move likely to sharply escalate trade tensions with the Asian giant. US Afghanistan's US-backed government was trying to restore order after 14 people died in increasingly violent protests against the alleged desecration of the Koran by interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recommended the closure of 33 US military bases as part of a major reorganization aimed at trimming excess capacity while repositioning US forces around the world. Colombia Colombian authorities announced the confiscation of 13.5 tonnes of cocaine in what they say is the country's biggest single narcotics haul. US Michael Jackson's former attorney told jurors how he had put the family of Jackson's child-sex accuser under surveillance for fear they might try to blackmail the singer.