b>Mideast A spokeswoman for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat denied that he was brain dead, but said that the 75-year-old was "between life and death" and in a reversible coma in his hospital near Paris. Iraq Six British and American troops were killed in Iraq over the last 24 hours as the US military battered the flashpoint city of Fallujah with air strikes ahead of an expected all-out assault. US European leaders must face up to the "new reality" of George W. Bush's re-election as US president, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said. EU European leaders were urged to forget their past divisions over Iraq, as they prepared for a lunch meeting with Iraq's interim leader Iyad Allawi. US A group linked to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network threatened the United States with reprisals after the re-election of President George W. Bush, warning of "unbearable hell," in a website statement. US President George W. Bush was mulling changes to his cabinet at the presidential retreat of Camp David, Maryland, after claiming a broad popular mandate and vowing to stick to his political agenda. Afghanistan Afghanistan's first popularly-chosen president Hamid Karzai vowed to end private militias, signalling a fight against powerful warlords as he claimed his mandate in a sweeping election victory. Afghanistan Anxieties mounted for three foreign UN election workers as the latest deadline passed for their threatened execution by a Taliban splinter group. NKorea North Korea wants big concessions from second-term US President George W. Bush before it will even discuss ending its nuclear weapons drive, a top Pyongyang envoy said. Mideast Two Palestinian children were killed in a large explosion in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian hospital and security sources said. Sudan Rebel leaders from the war-torn region of Darfur in west Sudan agreed to sign up to a compromise security deal proposed by the African Union, but the Sudanese government balked, hoping for amendments. ICoast Three people died and at least 40 were wounded in Ivory Coast, as government forces carried out repeated air raids on positions held by former rebels in the divided west African country, sources said.