Britain A massive police hunt for the remaining fugitive London bombers appeared to be paying off as officers launched a massive raid in the capital, reportedly targeting another of the wanted men. North Ireland-Britain British soldiers began to dismantle a base in Northern Ireland in response to a historic pledge by the Irish Republican Army to lay down its weapons and pursue peaceful means to end British rule. Iraq A suicide bomber blew himself up outside an army recruitment centre in the northern Iraqi town of Rabia, close to the Syrian border, killing 25 and wounding 35, police said. Mideast An Australian and a Palestinian working for the United Nations were kidnapped by masked men outside a hotel in Gaza City, witnesses and a UN official said. India Deaths from India's record monsoon climbed to near 900, police said, as rescuers unearthed more bodies from landslides villagers stampeded after hearing rumours of a tsunami. US The Discovery crew began moving 15 tons of equipment to the International Space Station and conducting a closer survey of any damage sustained by the shuttle's thermal shield during liftoff. Uganda Ugandan voters overwhelmingly endorsed sweeping democratic reform in a referendum to restore multi-party politics but turned out in near-record low numbers, according to partial results. Burundi Voting began for Burundi's senatorial elections with the country's former main rebel group, the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) tipped to win a majority of seats in the upper house. Russia-Chechnya Russia's foreign ministry summoned the senior US diplomat in Moscow and expressed "strong indignation" over an interview aired on the ABC television network with radical Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev. Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan More than 400 people who fled a violent government crackdown in Uzbekistan last May were airlifted by the United Nations out of neighboring Kyrgyzstan where they had sought refuge, but the fate of 15 wanted by Tashkent remained in limbo, officials said. North Korea Talks between the United States and North Korea intensified with the two sides meeting twice in their quest for common ground to resolve the standoff over the North's nuclear weapons drive. China China's Health Minister Gao Qiang insisted a mysterious outbreak of a pig-borne disease was "under control" despite a rising death toll and case-load, but the World Health Organisation disagreed.