US The US Senate held a rare secret session to discuss a scandal that led to the resignation of a top White House aide last week and now-discredited intelligence used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Ethiopia At least six people were killed and 11 wounded after Ethiopian police fired on stone-throwing rioters during a second day of street battles in the capital, doctors said. France Gangs of youths in towns around Paris clashed with police and torched cars and trash cans as violence that has plagued one poor suburb for almost a week spread to others around the French capital. Iran A small explosive device went off near the offices of British Airways and oil company British Petroleum in Tehran, a repeat attack that comes amid mounting tensions between Britain and Iran. Iran Thousands of young Iranians chanting "Death to America" converged around the former US embassy in Tehran to mark the 26th anniversary of its takeover. Iraq Five Iraqis were killed in Baghdad, as US forces announced the capture of two Yemenis they said were members of the Al-Qaeda network. India India, still reeling from blasts in New Delhi which killed 62 people, was hit by a suicide car bombing in its zone of Kashmir that killed five people, hours before the swearing-in of the region's new chief minister. Australia The Australian government has received specific information about a terrorist threat and will rush an urgent amendment to anti-terrorism laws through parliament to help counter it, Prime Minister John Howard said. China China banned imports of poultry products from 14 countries as part of its fight against bird flu as drug maker Roche said it was negotiating with Shanghai Pharmaceutical about producing the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu. Germany A popular east German emerged as the new leader of the crisis-hit Social Democrats, as the party sought dry land ahead of crucial new talks forming a government with Angela Merkel's conservatives. Tanzania Zanzibar's incumbent President Amani Abeid Karume took the oath of office after being re-elected for a second term as calm returned to the politically volatile Indian Ocean island following days of unrest. Netherlands The Netherlands marked the anniversary of the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a radical Muslim with politicians, relatives and religious leaders gathering to remember a crime which shocked the nation. Pakistan The US military said its helicopters had resumed aid deliveries to Pakistani earthquake victims, a day after one of its Chinooks came under suspected rocket fire in Kashmir.