Iraq US and Iraqi troops penetrated the rebel Iraqi city of Fallujah, seizing the main hospital and two bridges, as ground fire lit up the skies, an AFP photographer embedded with the troops said. Mideast Three of Yasser Arafat's top lieutenants were due in Paris to visit the ailing Palestinian leader, battling for his life in hospital in this southwest Paris suburb. ICoast Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo appealed for calm after two days of looting and violence against French nationals as France deployed reinforcements following the deaths of nine French troops in an airstrike. UN France circulated a UN draft resolution calling for an arms embargo against Ivory Coast, as well as financial sanctions and a travel ban against individuals accused of threatening the peace process in the conflict-wracked west African nation. Macedonia Macedonia's three-year peace process survived a key challenge after a referendum failed to overturn EU-backed laws to empower the ethnic Albanian minority, a ruling party official said. Iran Iranian and European Union officials have reached a "preliminary agreement" on easing concerns over the Islamic republic's nuclear programme following crucial negotiations in Paris, a top Iranian official said. Australia Nuclear terrorism is a genuine threat and past assumptions about how to control the spread of nuclear materials need to be radically overhauled, the head of the UN's atomic energy agency warned. France An anti-nuclear protester died in northeastern France after being run over by a train carrying nuclear waste from France to Germany, regional authorities said. Britain Investigators combed the tangled wreckage of an express train in southern England, a day after it slammed into a car at a level crossing, killing at seven people and injuring more than 100. Afghanistan Militants claiming to hold three foreign UN workers met Afghan officials and gave them a list of 26 prisoners whom they want to swap for their hostages, a spokesman for the group said.