NKorea US and South Korean envoys held talks with China aimed at coaxing North Korea back into six-party nuclear talks as the CIA said the Stalinist regime could re-start long-range missile testing. Iraq A coalition of Shiite parties has secured 140 seats in the new Iraqi parliament, followed by Kurdish parties with 75 and the list put together by interim premier Iyad Allawi with 40 seats, officials announced after certifying the results of last month's election. Lebanon Lebanon's Damascus-backed leaders faced a massive public backlash and international pressure to find the killers of former premier Rafiq Hariri as mourners united in blaming Syria for his murder. Israel Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's son Omri was formally indicted on charges relating to alleged campaign finance irregularities although his father was cleared, judicial sources said. Thailand-south-unrest-blast Ukraine The US-born justice minister in Ukraine's new government threatened to quit, complaining of undue interference in his ministry as a Kiev court ruled that the sale last year of the country's largest steel plant to private investors was illegal. Togo Togo's new military-installed leader Faure Gnassingbe came face-to-face with the fiercest critic of his power-grab, the chairman of the African Union, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria. Philippines Thousands more civilians fled their homes in the southern Philippines as President Gloria Arroyo warned the nation to brace for more violence after 10 days of deadly clashes with Muslim rebels. Somalia A powerful bomb killed at least two people in the lawless Somali capital as a visiting African Union (AU) team was preparing for the controversial deployment of regional peacekeepers here.