Iraq-Egypt-US An international conference aimed at garnering more support for the post-war process in Iraq will be held in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on November 22 and 23, US envoy William Burns says. Iraq US warplanes struck targets in rebel-held Fallujah, while Iraq suffered a fresh blow with international aid group CARE halting operations after the kidnapping of a top relief worker. Iraq-Britain Britain has not yet decided whether to send 650 troops to relieve US forces in Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair said, while rejecting suggestions that such a move would be aimed at boosting US President George W. Bush's electoral campaign. Lebanon Lebanon's billionaire Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri resigned after weeks of political uncertainty that has paralysed the country, and vowed he would not be heading the next government. US US President George W. Bush and his Democratic rival, John Kerry, move their battle to the Midwestern state of Iowa as the two candidates slug it out on issues ranging from national security to government-run pensions less than two weeks before polling day. Iran Iran refused to give up on producing enriched uranium in defiance of the West and said dialogue was the only way to resolve the nuclear standoff, on the eve of talks with the EU's Big Three. Cambodia Cambodia's new King Norodom Sihamoni arrived home to a huge welcome from thousands of his subjects, less than a week after he was appointed to the throne vacated by his revered father. Mideast Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was seeking to nail down support for his Gaza pullout plan ahead of a crunch vote in parliament as one of his top ministers held talks with the spiritual leader of the main ultra-Orthodox party. Myanmar Hardliners in Myanmar's military junta consolidated control of the country after ousting the prime minister, amid gloomy prospects for the release of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Afghanistan Yunus Qanooni, Hamid Karzai's chief rival in Afghanistan's presidential election, said he will accept the outcome, as Karzai swept the country's south and southeast en route to outright victory.