In Brief

* UNREST – Saudi Arabia said that five al Qaeda suspects on a most-wanted list were killed in a three-day battle with security forces in the eastern city of Dammam, the latest in a series of offensives against the militants.

* FREED – US-led forces freed an American contractor kidnapped in Iraq 10 months ago after raiding an isolated farmhouse south of Baghdad on a tip-off from an Iraqi prisoner. * DENIED – Communist guerrillas in the Philippines denied agreeing to resume peace talks and renewed demands for the government to win their de-listing as a terrorist organisation and free jailed militants.* TYPHOON – Powerful typhoon Nabi left Japan after crisscrossing north to south in a path of destruction that left 32 dead or missing in Japan and South Korea and flooded thousands of homes.* TRACKING – Terror suspects could be fitted with tracking devices under tough new laws which would also increase detention powers, make inciting violence a crime and tighten citizenship rules, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said.* REFUGEES – Hundreds of Afghan refugees attacked a United Nations refugee agency office in northwest Pakistan in protest at delays in repatriating them, police and officials said.- Nampa-AFP* DENIED – Communist guerrillas in the Philippines denied agreeing to resume peace talks and renewed demands for the government to win their de-listing as a terrorist organisation and free jailed militants.* TYPHOON – Powerful typhoon Nabi left Japan after crisscrossing north to south in a path of destruction that left 32 dead or missing in Japan and South Korea and flooded thousands of homes.* TRACKING – Terror suspects could be fitted with tracking devices under tough new laws which would also increase detention powers, make inciting violence a crime and tighten citizenship rules, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said.* REFUGEES – Hundreds of Afghan refugees attacked a United Nations refugee agency office in northwest Pakistan in protest at delays in repatriating them, police and officials said. – Nampa-AFP