SKorea US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in South Korea for talks on curbing North Korea's nuclear program and praised South Korean and US soldiers for standing in "the front line of freedom" against Pyonyang. Japan US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told North Korea it must immediately return to talks on its nuclear program and called on China to embrace democracy as she wrapped up a visit to top Asian ally Japan. Lebanon Lebanese President Emile Lahoud issued a plea for national dialogue and cancelled plans to attend an Arab summit after a bomb blast in a Beirut suburb wounded 11 people, sparking fears of a return to sectarian violence. Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Ukraine on his first visit since pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko beat a Kremlin-backed rival for the helm of the former Soviet republic. Iraq Thousands of people gathered in London's Hyde Park brandishing posters denouncing the "war on terror", marking the second anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. US A fight raged over the right of a severely brain-damaged Florida woman to live or die, a day after the feeding tube that sustained her for 15 years was removed. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf vowed to further upgrade Pakistan's nuclear capability but with a "strict adherence" to non-proliferation as he watched the test-firing of a long-range missile which can carry a nuclear warhead. Pakistan At least 41 Pakistanis returning from a pilgrimage were killed when the tractor and trailer on which they were riding was swept away by a torrent of water gushing down a hill, police said. Japan Japan refused to say when it would buy US beef again after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a personal appeal for it to resume imports stopped over fears of mad cow disease. US-EU The European Union accused the United States of unilaterally breaking off transatlantic talks on subsidies to aircraft makers Airbus and Boeing.