Mideast President George W. Bush hosted his first White House summit with a Palestinian leader and reaffirmed the US commitment to a viable Palestinian state and an end to Israeli settlement expansion. 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. EU French President Jacques Chirac made a last-ditch effort to reverse the tide of opposition to the EU constitution, urging the public to vote "yes" in this weekend's referendum in order to safeguard the country's influence in Europe. 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. US Two US soldiers were killed when their helicopter was brought down by small arms fire near the city of Baqubah, northwest of Baghdad, the US army announced. 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. US US President George W. Bush condemned Egyptian police attacks on demonstrators during a referendum that passed a controversial election law change. US Opposition Democrats in the US Senate forced a delay in the confirmation vote of John Bolton to become US ambassador to the United Nations, the latest setback for President's George W. Bush's beleaguered nominee to the post. SriLanka European truce monitors in Sri Lanka have warned that the "air assets" of separatist Tamil Tiger rebels could re-ignite war on the island and destabilise security in South Asia. Niger The government of Niger rejected allegations by non-governmental organizations that slavery still existed in the west African country where it was, in principle, abolished in the 1960s. US The United States has lifted a ban on the government sale of non-lethal defense equipment to Indonesia as part of a step-by-step process to restore full military ties frozen due to human rights abuses.