Mideast Israel launched fresh air strikes on the Gaza Strip after its defence minister dismissed the Palestinian leadership as a partner for peace and ruled out any foreseeable prospect of a Palestinian state. Health China insisted there had been no documented human cases of bird flu in the country despite three outbreaks among poultry in the past week while in Romania a dead heron was diagnosed as carrying the deadly H5N1 virus, marking the disease's further spread through Europe. Iran Iran was holding its annual anti-Israeli hate fest with huge rallies across the country, shrugging off widespread condemnation of its president's call for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map". Denmark Police in Denmark said they had arrested four youths of Middle Eastern origin on suspicion of planning a terror attack in Europe, linking them to a plot uncovered in Bosnia last week. Belgium Tens of thousands of Belgian workers descended on Brussels to protest against social security reform, as public transport ground to a halt in the second nationwide strike this month. Poland Poland's prime minister designate scrambled to cobble together a coalition government, offering the liberal Civic Platform revised tax and health reforms to get them back to the negotiating table. China Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in North Korea and seemed to immediately win a pledge from his host, dictator Kim Jong-Il, for the secretive regime to attend upcoming nuclear talks. Iraq Iraqi parties were officially registering candidates for the December 15 general elections after each of three main Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish communities agreed on separate broad coalitions. Russia Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov alleged that some of the documents transmitted to Russia by the independent commission investigating alleged fraud in the UN oil-for-food program for Iraq bore falsified signatures. SAsia The world has one last chance to give cash for Pakistan's quake victims or else the United Nations will have to stop its vital helicopter flights and scale down food deliveries, aid officials said. Fbl Doctors treating football legend George Best said they had managed to limit dangerous internal bleeding but were keeping him sedated on a respirator with his life still in the balance. WTO The European Commission offered its steepest-ever cuts in agricultural tariffs to try to break a deadlock in world trade talks, but France appeared ready to veto the proposals.