Lebanon-Syria President Bashar al-Assad announced that Syria would redeploy all its troops in Lebanon to the Syrian border but did not set a timetable for a full withdrawal. The United States, which has been pressing for a full and immediate pullout, said his promise was "insufficient." Iraq Pressure increased on the United States to explain why its troops fired on a convoy carrying freed Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena, wounding her and killing one of her rescuers. Italy-Iraq Freed Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena said on her return from Iraq that the shooting by US soldiers which wounded her and killed an Italian intelligence officer was unjustified, as Rome awaited an explanation of the incident from Washington. China Premier Wen Jiabao admitted China faced "glaring" social problems and pledged more help for the poor to deal with simmering unrest as he forecast economic growth of eight percent this year. Mideast-Palestinian-Jordan Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas held talks with Jordanian Foreign Minister Hani Mulki. Mulki was later to visit Israel, the first high-level Jordanian visit to the Jewish state in over four years. Iran Iran's top nuclear official warned the United States and Europe of the danger of an oil crisis if Tehran is taken before the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme, and rejected outright their demands to halt uranium enrichment. Nepal Nepal Maoist rebels torched government buildings in the country's southwest, an army official said, as the Himalayan kingdom declared it would not waver in its "war against terrorism." Ukraine Ukraine's former president Leonid Kuchma returned to Kiev, where he is likely to face questioning over the gruesome murder of an opposition reporter that became a symbol of the rampant corruption of his regime. Asia Several dozen European victims of Asia's tsunami disaster have filed a lawsuit demanding that Thai authorities, US forecasters and a French hotel chain prove that they reacted adequately.