US A teenage student went on a shooting rampage at an Indian reservation, gunning down nine people before committing suicide in the worst US school massacre since Columbine in 1999, police and local media said. EU European Union leaders gathered for a traditional spring summit aimed at relaunching an economic reform drive and giving a shot in the arm to flagging growth across the continent. Iraq Iraq's Shiites will take 16 to 17 ministries in the next government, the Kurds will hold seven to eight ministries and the country's Sunni minority will be awarded four to six ministries, a Shiite negotiator said. Algiers Arab leaders opened a two-day summit in the Algerian capital to discuss a new version of a land-for-peace plan with Israel as well as speeding up lagging reforms in the region. North Korea North Korean Premier Pak Pong-Ju said that his country was ready to resume nuclear crisis talks when conditions were right, despite Pyongyang's earlier announcement that it had increased its nuclear arsenal to ward off a US attack. Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev accused the nation's opposition of trying to stage a coup d'etat with its protests over a disputed parliamentary poll, and charged that it was directed and financed from abroad. But he ruled out imposing a state of emergency. Iran Iran reaffirmed that it would pursue a full-scale nuclear program, a day ahead of talks in Paris at which the European Union will urge Tehran to abandon crucial fuel activities in order to show it is not secretly developing atomic weapons. Pakistan A parliamentary delegation was trying to end a stand-off between troops and tribal insurgents in southwest Pakistan following clashes that killed dozens of people and sparked a siege of security forces. US A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, has rejected a bid to reinsert the feeding tube keeping brain-damaged, 41-year-old Terry Schiavo alive, local media reported. Israel Israel has no intention of launching a strike against Iranian nuclear installations, a top official said, quoting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Bangladesh Troops have joined a massive relief operation in northern Bangladesh where a tornado cut a swathe through 15 villages at the weekend, officials said, as the death toll rose to 47. Niger Niger held a stay-home strike to protest a new tax that has sent costs of staple goods and utilities soaring beyond the means of most people in the northwest African state, among the world's poorest countries.