Mideast Israel completed its evacuation of parts of the occupied Palestinian territories after the last hardline resistance to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's historic pullout crumbled. Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari said almost all issues dogging the draft constitution were resolved, but Sunni Arabs warned it was divisive and would be rejected when put to the nation. Niger UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was in Niger to assess a devastating famine in one of the world's poorest countries, and discuss how to tackle it after UN agencies were accused of bungling aid. Portugal Nearly 3,000 firefighters and soldiers backed by aircraft from five European nations battled wildfires which raged in parched Portugal, while police found the charred body an elderly woman near her rural home, emergency services said. US-NKorea The chief US negotiator with North Korea said he did not believe the issue of whether Pyongyang should have the right to eventually pursue civilian nuclear power was "a show-stopper" to an agreement on ridding it of nuclear weapons. China-Russia Chinese destroyers, submarines and fighter planes were coordinating with a Russian missile destroyer and anti-submarine vessels in ongoing war games simulating a naval blockade, state media said.