Iraq Iraq's first democratically elected government in half a century is sworn in, but the line-up remained incomplete as wrangling continued over the attribution of key portfolios to the minority Sunni Arabs. Taiwan-China China offered a series of goodwill gestures to Taiwan including the symbolic gift of two giant pandas, as the island's opposition leader wrapped up a landmark visit that has created new optimism about cross-strait relations. Somalia At least 15 people were killed and nearly 40 wounded in a bomb blast at a Mogadishu stadium where Somalia's transitional prime minister was addressing a large crowd, police and hospital officials said. Iran Iran announced it will resume certain nuclear activities suspended as part of a deal with the European Union, but said it intended to maintain a freeze on uranium enrichment and continue talks with the EU. Italy Italy and the US sought to play down a diplomatic row fuelled by sharply differing accounts of the killing of an Italian intelligence agent by US troops, which has rekindled debate over the withdrawal of Rome's military forces from Iraq. Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair came in for a slew of personal attacks over Iraq as he tried to win over unprecedented numbers of undecided voters who have sent jitters through his Labour Party just 48 hours before elections. Togo Faure Gnassingbe, son of deceased Togo strongman Gnassingbe Eyadema, was officially declared the winner of April 24 elections by the west African state's constitutional court. Mideast Senior Israeli ministers gave their backing to plans to keep intact rather than demolish the homes of Jewish settlers in Gaza after they are uprooted from the Palestinian territory this summer. Indonesia The World Health Organisation said a case of the crippling polio virus had been detected in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, indicating that an outbreak rooted in Africa had leapt the Indian Ocean. France China sought to assure France that it was taking concrete steps to stem a surge in textile exports to Europe and predicted that the pace of such shipments would ease further between now and July. Netherlands Mohammed Bouyeri, the man accused of the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, played "a leading role" in an Islamic terrorist organisation dubbed the Hofstad group, a prosecutor said in a procedural hearing on the group.