Indonesia Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Chinese President Hu Jintao met for hastily arranged talks in Jakarta to salvage ties between the two Asian powers amid a bitter row. Vatican Pope Benedict XVI launched a media charm offensive a day ahead of his solemn inauguration, telling journalists in four languages that thanks to them the "entire world" had been focused on the Roman Catholic Church. Italy Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced a new cabinet line-up he hopes will carry him through to next year's general elections leaving key ministries unchanged but adding his longtime ally Giulio Tremonti as a new deputy premier. US Four top US Army officers, including a former commander of US forces in Iraq, have been cleared of any wrongdoing in the prisoner abuse scandal at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, defense officials said. Mideast Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plan to meet next month in what would be their first encounter in almost three months. US The United States believes North Korea is planning to test a nuclear weapon and has asked China to intervene to block the test, the Wall Street Journal reported from South Korea. Togo Voters in the west African state of Togo elect a new president Sunday, but tensions remained high as one of four candidates withdrew on the eve of the election, blaming "irregularities" in the electoral process. Ecuador The Organization of American States decided to dispatch a special mission to Ecuador to investigate the ousting of president Lucio Gutierrez, who remained in the Brazilian embassy as the new government, without international recognition, refused him safe passage into exile. Sudan Sudan has formed a committee to draft an interim constitution, a key step in implementing a peace deal between Khartoum and southern rebels that brought an end to more than two decades of civil war.