Mideast Troops and police prayed side-by-side with Jewish settlers being forced to leave their homes as Israel resumed its traumatic pullout from the Gaza Strip following a 38-year occupation. Iraq Iraq said it may seek a second extension to the constitution deadline as its leaders remain divided over crucial issues amid rising international pressure to finish the charter. Egypt Egypt's largest opposition movement, the banned but tolerated Muslim Brotherhood, urged its supporters to vote out incumbent Hosni Mubarak in the September 7 presidential poll. Afghanistan Four US soldiers were killed and three wounded in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan, the US military said, as American casualties mount during their bloodiest year so far in the country. Iran Iran's hardline President Mahmood Ahmadinejad put his proposed cabinet to parliament, lashing out at the West and liberalism and promising a government that will "promote virtue and prohibit vice." Vatican Pope Benedict XVI issued a ringing back-to-basics call to young Catholics at a giant open-air mass attended by over a million young pilgrims at the Catholic World Youth day festival. He said Sydney, Australia, would host the next festival in 2008. Britain A Brazilian delegation is on Monday to meet London's Metropolitan Police and representatives from the inquiry into the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian embassy said. Ukraine Ukraine's Uniate Church transferred its seat to Kiev in a move rekindling ancient tension between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church and condemned by around 1,000 protesters as an assault on the Moscow-based Church that has held sway here for centuries. Cuba The presidents of Cuba and Venezuela have called for solidarity in the face of the United States as they met here to strengthen their special relationship that has the US government increasingly suspicious. Britain The catering firm whose sackings sparked the British Airways strike that crippled the airline's London Heathrow operations lost a court battle to ban a protest near its headquarters at the airport.