Iraq The US military said it had lost contact with two of its military jets over Iraq, as US private Lynndie England pled guilty in Texas to abuse charges related to a picture showing her holding a naked Iraqi prisoner on a leash. US-NKorea The United States has "significant deterrent capability" to thwart North Korea's nuclear ambitions, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned. UN UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei opened a conference on the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) with warnings that the world's effort to control the spread of atomic weapons is out of date and needs to be fixed. Iraq A task force was headed for Iraq to try to secure the release of an Australian kidnapped by militants but Australia's defence minister conceded he was not confident Douglas Wood would be freed. Afghanistan A massive explosion ripped through a secret ammunition dump owned by a warlord in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 28 people and injuring more than 70 others, police and officials said. Iran-EU Iran has no plans for the time being to resume uranium enrichment, a senior nuclear official said, following warnings from German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer that any such move would spell the end of talks with the EU. Italy-US-Iraq The government blamed the killing of a senior Italian intelligence agent in Baghdad on the "inexperience" of US troops acting under stress and without proper rules of engagement. US-France-Lebanon The United States and France pressed for an end to any "residual" Syrian presence in Lebanon after the highly publicized withdrawal of Damascus's forces last week. Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair remains likely to triumph in this week's British general election, but more than a third of voters have yet to make finally up their minds, a new opinion poll said. Mauritania-Israel Anti-Israel graffiti and protests awaited the arrival of Israel Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom in the west African desert nation of Mauritania, one of the Jewish state's few allies in the Arab world.