Mideast Israel said all its soldiers would be out of the Gaza Strip within a month, ending four decades of occupation after the historic pullout of Jewish settlers from the Palestinian territory. Iraq Efforts to push through war-torn Iraq's constitution received a boost after the autonomous Kurdistan parliament approved the charter even as Sunni Arabs kept up their opposition. Europe Record flooding in central Europe claimed more lives and threatened to engulf further regions, prompting a message of sympathy from the pope, as firefighters in Portugal and Spain battled forest blazes. Britain Britain finalised a new plan to help deport or bar Islamic radicals who promote terrorism in the wake of last month's London bombings and said it would be implemented within days. Niger UN Secretary General Kofi Annan came out of talks with the president of famine-wracked Niger pledging a determination to step up cooperation among agencies in aid efforts and avoid further crises. Pakistan Pakistani authorities have launched a campaign to register all of the country's controversial religious schools, or madrassas, despite opposition from hardline clerics, officials said. Peru Forty-one people were killed and 57 were injured when a Peruvian jetliner with 98 people on board crashed during a storm, just seconds before its scheduled landing in Peru's Amazon basin, officials said. Pakistan Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has confirmed that the country's disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan provided North Korea with centrifuges and their designs, his spokesman said. Sudan Peace talks between Sudan's government and the two Darfur rebel factions will resume next month in Nigeria with the parties pledging to reach a deal by the end of the year, the African Union special envoy for the troubled western Sudanese region said. Venezuela French President Jacques Chirac joined the people of Martinique in paying homage at a moving, simple ceremony to the 160 victims of a plane crash in Venezuela.