Mideast US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pledged her personal commitment to find Middle East peace as she unveiled plans for a special coordinator to help the Palestinians maintain security. Iraq Insurgents unleashed suicide bombers against Iraq's embattled police, killing more than 20 in Mosul and Baquba, while an Islamist group threatened to execute a kidnapped female Italian reporter. Vatican The Vatican said doctors believe Pope John Paul II is not well enough to leave hospital and have advised that he prolong his stay at least until the end of the week, despite an improvement in his general condition. Switzerland A dozen Swiss security police entered the Spanish consulate in Bern where three gunmen had forced their way in earlier in the day, the Swiss news agency ATS announced. Thailand Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra savoured his crushing election victory as critics voiced fears that the kingdom could effectively become a one-party state. Nepal Nepal's new government headed by the king has offered to hold unconditional talks with Maoist rebels to end an insurgency that has claimed more than 11,000 lives, state media said. Togo Faure Gnassingbe, son of Togo's deceased president Gnassingbe Eyadema, was sworn in as the new president over a chorus of international protest led by the African Union. Britain Unskilled foreigners will find it harder to migrate to Britain under new proposals due to be announced that will also call for stricter screening of asylum seekers and tighter border controls. Afghanistan NATO-led troops said it might take several weeks to recover all the bodies from the wreckage of an Afghan jet carrying 104 people, as search teams found the first human remains at the crash site. Liberia Liberia will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on October 11, the electoral commission for the west African state said.