NKorea North Korea said it would not dismantle its nuclear weapons until the United States delivered light-water reactors, casting doubt on an agreement heralded as a breakthrough for peace. Iraq Tension ran high in southern Iraq after British troops freed two undercover soldiers taken hostage by a Shiite militia, as the American death toll in bomb attacks rose to nine over a two-day period. US Hurricane Rita barreled toward a vulnerable chain of islands in southernmost Florida, on a track that would take it over the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico, and possibly close to devastated New Orleans. Iran Iran issued its toughest warning yet in response to Western pressure over its nuclear programme, threatening to limit UN inspections, resume ultra-sensitive fuel work and saying it could even be forced to quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Austria Simon Wiesenthal, whose experiences in German concentration camps turned him into a lifelong hunter of Nazi war criminals, died at his home in Vienna after a long illness. He was 96. OPEC OPEC will make an extra two million more barrels per day available to oil markets from October 1 if there is demand for the crude, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said in a statment. Indonesia Suspected bird flu patients can be forced into hospital under "extraordinary" measures welcomed by the World Health Organization to counter a widening outbreak of the virus in Indonesia, officials said. Germany German conservative leader <a class="textLink" href="https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/tematy-angela-merkel,gsbi,1019" title="Angela Merkel" target="_blank">Angela Merkel</a>, wounded by her failure to get a clear majority in stalemated weekend elections, fought to keep alive party support for her ambition to be Germany's first woman chancellor. Britain The presumed suicide bombers who killed themselves and 52 other people in London on July 7 checked out their targets a week beforehand with an apparent dummy run of the attack, police said. EU The European Union failed to adopt a hotly-disputed declaration on Turkey due to last-minute opposition from Cyprus, fuelling fresh doubts over the start of EU talks with Ankara next month. Uzbekistan Fifteen men pleaded guilty of trying to overthrow the Uzbek government and create an Islamic state in a violent spring uprising that prosecutors said was stoked by Western media. Afghanistan Afghanistan began counting votes cast in the weekend's landmark parliamentary election, each plastic ballot box holding a small but vital contribution to its fledgling democracy.