Myanmar A Thai government spokesman said Myanmar's prime minister, General Khin Nyunt, among the most reformist of the military regime's leaders, had been sacked and placed under house arrest for alleged corruption. Iraq-Britain Britain looked set to agree to a US request to send its troops into violence-plagued areas of Iraq. Iraq US warplanes again struck suspected hideouts of Islamic militant Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi in rebel-held Fallujah, while the Iraqi government announced plans for a national arms-for-cash programme. US US President George W. Bush and rival John Kerry traded diatribes on Iraq and fighting terror. Spain Spanish police arrested seven people suspected of involvement in violent Islamic extremist groups in a series of raids in the early hours, the interior ministry said. NKorea North Korea's second ranking leader was scheduled to meet with China's two most powerful men as Beijing persisted in its efforts to revive stalled talks on Pyongyang's controversial nuclear programme. India Officials said India's most wanted fugitive, Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, accused of more than 100 murders and on the run for decades, was shot dead after driving into a police trap.