Mideast Israeli forces prepared to forcibly clear the final Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip and end almost four decades of occupation of the Palestinian land. Iraq Iraq roped in disenchanted Sunni Arabs for last-minute talks on thorny issues dogging the drafting of the constitution just hours before a deadline to complete the charter expires. Indonesia Some 1,300 Indonesian soldiers pulled out of Aceh province, the first major step by Indonesia to begin implementing a historic peace deal struck last week with separatist rebels. US South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon said he was "optimistic" that a new round of six-party talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons drive would yield results. 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." Ecuador Ecuador's government has deployed troops to its Amazon region and claimed an end to six days of civil unrest that had cut oil exports, but protesters declared only a truce in their fight for a larger slice of oil revenues. 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. Portugal As thousands of firefighters continued to battle tenacious summer forest fires across Portugal, the parched country's fellow EU members were moving to provide aid, particularly in the form of aircraft. US In a potential breakthrough for bioengineering, three cloned African wildcats living in the United States have produced two healthy litters of kittens, demonstrating for the first time that clones of wild animals can breed.