Iraq The Iraqi parliament approved a partial cabinet line-up though several key portfolios including defence and oil are undecided. Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari said all major hurdles had been cleared and that a full cabinet list would be presented within days. Japan Rescue teams called off the search for further victims and survivors from Japan's worst train wreck in four decades which claimed at least 106 lives, the fire department said. Spain-EU Spain's lower house of parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of ratifying the European Union constitution after voters backed it in a referendum, a sharp contrast to the deepening scepticism elsewhere in Europe. Mideast-Russia-Iran Vladimir Putin, the first Russian leader to visit Israel, said he opposed any Iranian effort to a build a nuclear bomb and stressed that nuclear cooperation between Moscow and Tehran was limited to civilian activities. Iraq-Britain With a general election a week away, and his integrity on the line, Prime Minister Tony Blair bowed to pressure to make public the full text of the secret advice he got on the legality of the Iraq war. Italy Despite easily winning confidence votes in both houses of parliament, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faced an uphill battle to convince his fractious center-right allies to unite under a single party for elections next year. Italy-US-Iraq Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi warned Washington that Italy would "never endorse" any unconvincing report on the March US troops shooting incident in Iraq in which an Italian intelligence agent was killed and a freshly released hostage was injured. Mideast-Gaza Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas warned he would use an "iron fist" against armed militants who violate a de facto truce and also vowed to ensure that Israel's planned withdrawal from the occupied Gaza Strip and parts of the northern West Bank went ahead smoothly. Togo Calm was returning slowly to the Togo capital after post-election violence that has killed at least 22 people, amid assurances from France that it will not intervene in the affairs of its former west African colony. Taiwan-China Taiwanese opposition leader Lien Chan said he felt a "historic responsibility" to bring peace between China and Taiwan, as he arrived in Beijing for talks with President Hu Jintao. US-Venezuela US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice embarked on her first major tour of Latin America where she is due in Colombia, Chile and El Salvador for talks to promote democracy and to battle drug trafficking in the region, but tension with Venezuela threatens to upstage her at every stop.