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 The Lebanese crisis took an ominous turn as the president scrapped plans to attend the Arab summit after a bomb blast in a Christian neighborhood revived fears of sectarian violence. Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Ukraine's leader Viktor Yushchenko, as the two seek to define a new relationship after last year's "orange revolution" that turned Kiev from Moscow's influence. Iraq Tens of thousands of people marched through central London, banging drums, waving banners and posters denouncing the "war on terror" on the second anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. US The fight over the right of a severely brain-damaged Florida woman to live or die raged on, 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 testing of a long-range missile that can carry a nuclear warhead. US The European Union will counter-attack at the World Trade Organization if the United States takes a dispute over subsidies to aircraft makers Airbus and Boeing to the WTO, a European Commission official said. ICoast Demonstrations on either side of the divide in Ivory Coast called respectively for French peacekeeping forces to leave the country and stay on after their mandate expires next month. Iraq Iraq's embattled Sunnis were of two minds about joining the political process as protestors in Europe demanded an end to foreign troop presence in Iraq two years after the US-led invasion.