Iraq International aid organisation CARE suspended its operations in Iraq following the kidnapping of the head of its Baghdad office, the organisation's chief executive said. Iran Europe's three main nations are ready to promise Iran nuclear technology, including supplying a light-water nuclear reactor, if Tehran takes steps to show it is not secretly trying to make atomic weapons, according to a confidential document obtained by AFP. UN The UN Security Council called unanimously for Syria to pull its troops out of neighbouring Lebanon, a demand that the Syrians quickly rejected. US US President George W. Bush and his deadlocked rival, Senator John Kerry, lobbed a flurry of rhetorical hand grenades at one another's national security positions, digging in for the final two weeks of the battle for the White House. Germany Nearly 40,000 people in Germany, backed by expressions of support elsewhere in Europe, took to the streets to protest plans by US auto giant General Motors to axe about one-fifth of its European workforce and possibly even close a plant. Myanmar Myanmar's Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt -- among the most reformist of the military regime's leaders -- has been sacked and placed under house arrest for alleged corruption, a Thai government spokesman said. Belarus Police beat up several dozen protestors in the Belarusian capital as hundreds of people demonstrated for a second day running against a referendum which has opened the way for hardline President Alexander Lukashenko to retain power indefinitely. Spain Spanish police arrested eight suspected Islamic extremists believed to be plotting a bomb attack on the National Court, Spain's highest criminal court, Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said. Mideast Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appeared to have seen off pressure for a referendum on his controversial Gaza pullout plan as his chances of winning parliamentary approval for the project improved.