US Tens of thousands of survivors were evacuating the darkened, flooded streets of New Orleans, abandoning the hurricane-wrecked city to looters, thugs, carjackers, and a looming public health disaster. US US President George W. Bush promised "zero tolerance" for looters and other profiteers from the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina and said he would send in more troops if necessary. Iraq Thousands of grieving Iraqis were searching for their loved ones as mass funerals were due to be held for the nearly 1,000 Shiite pilgrims killed in a deadly stampede on a Baghdad bridge. Iraq Iraq hanged three convicted murderers in the first executions since the toppling of former dictator Saddam Hussein, despite appeals from the United Nations and human rights groups. Mideast-Israel-Pakistan-Turkey Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom met his Pakistani counterpart in Turkey where they were expected to finalise a deal to establish diplomatic ties, diplomatic sources said. Russia Bells tolled in Beslan one year to the minute after Chechen gunmen seized a Russian primary school in a hostage crisis that left more than 300 people dead and which still reverberates around the country. China China said it was committed to peaceful development and would never use nuclear weapons first as it outlined its arms control policy ahead of President Hu Jintao's visit to the United States. China China evacuated more than 790,000 people as powerful Typhoon Talim slammed into its east coast after barreling across Taiwan, where it left three dead and dozens injured. Afghanistan-Britain A British engineer has been kidnapped and at least three policemen killed by Taliban rebels in Afghanistan, raising security fears before key elections this month. Albania Albania's socialist Prime Minister Fatos Nano tendered his resignation after the central electoral commission confirmed ex-president Sali Berisha's Democratic Party won the July 3 general election.