Uzbekistan More gunfire was heard in the eastern Uzbek town of Andijan, days after Uzbek security forces reportedly killed hundreds of demonstrators, as Washington said it was "deeply disturbed" by the reports. US Newsweek magazine issued a retraction of an article alleging abuse of the Koran at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility which sparked deadly protests in Afghanistan and other Muslim countries. SKorea-NKorea South Korea vowed to step up pressure to bring North Korea back to six-way nuclear negotiations as both sides began a second and final day of vice-ministerial talks, officials said. Russia Judges were due to resume reading their verdict in the trial of Yukos oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a case that many observers see as a Kremlin vendetta almost sure to end with the Russian oligarch pronounced guilty. Iraq Leaders of Iraq's newly empowered Shiite majority called on their followers not to resort to revenge attacks against the ousted Sunni Arab elite amid a spate of tit-for-tat sectarian killings. US-Iraq A US military policewoman behind some of the most ghastly photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison was found guilty of severely abusing inmates and failing to carry out her army duties, a spokesman for the military said. Iraq-Britain Insurgents armed with rudimentary anti-aircraft weapons likely shot down a British military plane in Iraq earlier this year, killing all 10 servicemen on board, a newspaper reported. Afghanistan-Italy An Italian aid worker was abducted by a gang of armed men while she was driving through the Afghan capital Kabul, Italian embassy and police officials said here. NKorea-China-US North Korea has asked China to arrange a visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Pyongyang in a bid to reach a breakthrough on nuclear and missile issues, a Japanese daily reports. Kuwait Kuwaiti women were granted the right to vote and stand in elections, under a historic amendment to the conservative Gulf emirate's election law that triggered celebrations outside parliament. Ethiopia Ethiopia's ruling party said it had won hotly contested weekend general elections but offered an olive branch to the opposition which made significant gains in the 547-seat parliament. Indonesia Indonesia's government and parliament have agreed to lift tsunami-devastated Aceh province's one-year-old state of civil emergency this week, a report said. Bangladesh Officials at the scene of a ferry accident in southern Bangladesh said they had discovered more bodies overnight bringing the death toll to at least 49.