Egypt At least 16 were killed in a bomb attack against a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Taba, a senior Israeli official said Friday in the neighbouring Israeli town of Eilat. Iraq Ten people were killed in a US air raid on the Iraqi rebel-held city of Fallujah west of Baghdad, a hospital official said. US President George W. Bush declared that he would attack Iraq all over again, shrugging off an official US report that Baghdad had lacked the unconventional weapons at the heart of his case for war. Pakistan Pakistan security forces were on high alert with troops deployed to the city of Multan after a car bomb killed 41 people and wounded more than 100 in the latest attack blamed on sectarian tensions. Afghanistan A rocket hit the embassy area of Afghanistan's capital in the early hours of Friday ahead of presidential elections on Saturday. Colombia Colombia's right-wing paramilitary armies will demobilize 3,000 irregulars by year's end as part of a government peace deal, their leader announced. US The US House of Representatives repealed a controversial tax break for US corporations in a bid to end hefty European Union trade sanctions after the World Trade Organization ruled agains the practice. Nobel This year's Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in Oslo on Friday, as last-minute reports suggested that the coveted award could go to defenders of the environment, such as Kenyan tree planter Wangari Maathai or former Russian navy officer Alexander Nikitin. Sudan Sudan's government and main southern rebel group opened a fresh round of talks in Nairobi with a new commitment to ending Africa's longest-running civil war amid increasing international outrage over a separate conflict in the western Sudanese region of Darfur.