North Korea US and South Korean envoys held talks with China aimed at coaxing North Korea back into six-party nuclear talks as the CIA warned the Stalinist regime could re-start long-range missile testing. North Korea China's leverage over North Korea is greater than previously admitted, Seoul's top envoy to Beijing said, as a diplomatic drive built to rein in its unruly communist ally. Lebanon Lebanon was under mounting pressure to solve the murder of former billionaire premier Rafiq Hariri after his funeral which saw hundreds of thousands of mourners vent their anger at Syria. Iraq Iraq's electoral commission said it would certify the results of the country's landmark polls, which saw Shiite and Kurdish alliances sweep most of the votes. Somalia At least two people were killed and five wounded when a bomb exploded in the lawless Somali capital, near a hotel where an African Union fact-finding mission is staying, witnesses said. Nigeria Togo's army-installed president Faure Gnassingbe was to travel to Abuja for talks with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, the current chair of the African Union, Togolese officials said. US The US share of worldwide high-tech exports has dropped from 31 to 18 percent over the past 20 years in what could foreshadow the loss of the country's leading position in science and technology, an expert panel warned. Paraguay Five months after she was kidnapped, police have found the body of the 31-year-old daughter of former Paraguayan president Raul Cubas buried in a tunnel under a house outside Asuncion, Interior Minister Nelson Mora said. Philippines Thousands of civilians continued to flee their homes in the southern Philippines as the military braced for further violence after 10 days of deadly clashes with Muslim rebels. Pacific Three fishermen were found alive and a search was underway for several others missing off Samoa and American Samoa after super-cyclone Olaf burst through the region before taking aim at the already battered Cook Islands.