US The United States has foiled three Al-Qaeda terror strikes on its soil since the September 11 attacks in 2001, President George W. Bush said in a major speech painting Islamist terrorism as a tyrannical heir to Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot. Britain British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned Iran against interfering in Iraq, saying London suspected explosives used to kill British troops there may have come from the Islamic republic. Britain Iraqi President Jalal Talabani warned that an early pullout from Iraq by the US-led military would be "catastrophic" as Prime Minister Tony Blair said British troops would stay for as long as necessary. Iraq A suicide bomber killed 10 people when he blew himself up on a minibus in Baghdad in one of a spate of attacks, adding to fears of spiralling violence in the run-up to next week's vote on the new Iraqi constitution. Germany German conservatives appeared confident that Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder would stand aside to allow <a class="textLink" href="https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/tematy-angela-merkel,gsbi,1019" title="Angela Merkel" target="_blank">Angela Merkel</a> to lead the country, but party leaders warned that no deal would be done before Sunday. Spain Six would-be immigrants died, some shot dead by Moroccan police, in a mass attempt to storm the border into Spain's north African enclave of Melilla, a Moroccan interior ministry source told AFP. Afghanistan A woman activist famous for standing up to powerful warlords has won a seat in Afghanistan's first parliament in more than 30 years, according to early results released. Indonesia The suicide bombers who staged last weekend's deadly blasts in Bali are part of "a new generation" of terrorists, police said as Indonesia's powerful military announced it would help forestall future attacks. Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's high-profile visit to Thailand's insurgency-plagued south was rattled by a double bombing just an hour's drive from where he was staying. Afghanistan NATO will send thousands more troops to Afghanistan, boosting the total in the war-torn country to up to 15,000, the group's secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said.