NKorea Talks aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons programme resumed in Beijing after a 13-month deadlock, with both Pyongyang and Washington setting a tone of conciliation. Egypt Egyptian police exchanged fire with gunmen as they hunted for six Pakistanis suspected of involvement in deadly bombings in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Iraq Sunni Arab leaders were expected to decide to end their boycott of constitutional talks after agreement was reached to investigate the murder of two of their number drafting the document. Britain British police were hopeful that the trail of evidence uncovered so far would lead them closer to the fugitive London bombers, after naming two of the wanted men. Britain Britain and France are to cooperate more closely on anti-terrorism following the London bombings, exchanging names of suspected Islamic extremists and other information, the countries' prime ministers said. Egypt President Pervez Musharraf said Al-Qaeda was now a worldwide phenomenon but denied the terror group was strong enough in Pakistan to have orchestrated the London and Sharm el-Sheikh bombings. US NASA gave the go-ahead for the fueling of Discovery's external tank, indicating preparations were on track for Tuesday's launch of the first space shuttle since the 2003 Columbia disaster. Italy-US An Italian appeals court ordered the arrest of six CIA operatives accused of involvement in the 2003 kidnapping of a radical Muslim cleric from a street in Milan. India Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed "anguish" after hundreds of workers at a Japanese automobile factory were reported injured during a brutal clash with riot police. Canada-Vatican Nine North American women sailed onto the St. Lawrence River to take part in an unauthorized ordination ceremony, risking excommunication by the Vatican to become priests and deacons.