• Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to hold confidence-building talks every two weeks that could eventually lead to discussions on a Palestinian state, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said yesterday.

• Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges to speed up his return home and to escape a flawed system of US military justice, Australian lawmakers said yesterday.

• Bomb attacks killed 75 people in Iraq yesterday, including 48 who died in twin truck bombings in the northwestern town of Tal Afar, police said.

• The Egyptian government said yesterday it had won 75.9 per cent approval for changes to the constitution in a referendum which opponents and human rights groups say was fixed.

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