Iraq The Iraqi interior minister said that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been wounded amid conflicting reports over whether an acting commander has already been named to replace Al-Qaeda's Iraq chief. Mideast US President George W. Bush held a historic White House summit with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas, and assured him of the US commitment to an independent Palestinian state. Egypt Eighty-three percent of voters backed a law change paving the way for Egypt's first competitive presidential election, the government said, amid bitter opposition accusations of intimidation. Pakistan In a major turnaround, Pakistan confirmed it had sent some parts of an old centrifuge to the UN atomic agency to help it establish whether Iran has been secretly developing nuclear weapons. EU With more opinion polls predicting a stunning victory for opponents of the EU constitution in this weekend's referendum, French President Jacques Chirac was preparing to play his last card with a televised appeal for the "yes". AfricanUnion International donors pledged millions in further aid to an African Union peace mission in Sudan's troubled western Darfur region as the pan-African body announced peace talks between Khartoum and rebels will resume next month. WTO The World Trade Organisation decided to start membership talks with Iran after the United States lifted its long-standing opposition to Tehran's bid, Iran's ambassador in Geneva and trade sources said. Uzbekistan Uzbek President Islam Karimov held a second day of talks with China's top leaders as Beijing snubbed calls for more pressure on the hardline leader to accept an international probe into a bloody military crackdown. Finland A new round of peace talks opened in Helsinki aimed at ending a drawn-out conflict between the Indonesian government and Aceh separatists that has left more than 12,000 people dead since 1976. Britain An electrician was formally charged with murdering 29 people in a 1998 bomb attack in the town of Omagh, in Northern Ireland's worst single terrorist atrocity.