Uzbekistan- Uzbekistan stalled in response to demands for an international probe of a military crackdown feared to have left hundreds dead, as President Islam Karimov denied the issue came up in a telephone briefing on the violence he gave the UN secretary general. Iraq A British newspaper which published photographs of Saddam Hussein in his prison cell released another shot of the ex-dictator, along with pictures of two other former top members of his regime now also in custody. US President George W. Bush threatened to veto any bill allowing US federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research after a South Korean team announced advances in their work. Chile At least 13 Chilean soldiers among a group of 41 military who went missing in a snow storm while on a training exercise have been found dead, President Ricardo Lagos announced. US The US Army's 7,500-member recruiting force reviewed standards of conduct amid growing complaints of aggressive tactics to meet hard-to-meet enlistment quotas, officials said. Iraq Sunni and Shiite clerics called for moderation amid heightened sectarian tensions in Iraq, encouraging peaceful protest and unity in the face of unremitting violence. Cuba Cuban dissidents launched a landmark democracy conference, defying communist President Fidel Castro, whose government blocked several European observers from taking part.