Pakistan Pakistan interrogated a number of Al-Qaeda suspects including the network's alleged third in command after security officials said they had smashed a new plot to kill President Pervez Musharraf. Iraq Australia said it was upset by the release of a new video showing an Australian contractor held hostage in Iraq, but reaffirmed it would not bow to a 72-hour deadline given by the insurgents for Canberra to withdraw its troops from the country. Baltics US President George W. Bush meets leaders of the three Baltic former Soviet republics in Latvia, on the first leg of a four-nation whirlwind visit to Europe to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. Britain British Prime Minister Tony Blair reshuffled his cabinet, keeping his popular heir-apparent Gordon Brown as finance minister, as he pledged to govern "wisely and sensibly" after his Labour Party won a third term in power in a general election that slashed its parliamentary majority by more than half. Vietnam One Vietnamese sailor was confirmed dead and 22 others were missing after their ship went missing off the Chinese coast last weekend, state media said. Japan The foreign ministers of Japan and China were to meet to see how they can move forward amid a series of bitter disputes that have sent bilateral relations plummeting. Iraq One militant group gave Canberra a hostage ultimatum and another said it had kidnapped six Jordanians as insurgents stepped up attacks in Iraq, killing at least 40 people in two suicide car bombings. Lebanon Balding Lebanese Christian hardliner Michel Aoun who was booted out by Syria almost 15 years ago returns home to a hero's welcome, unbroken by his exile and determined to challenge loyalist and opposition forces alike into reforming Lebanon.