Amman - The interior ministers of Iraq's neighbouring countries ended a one-day meeting in the Syrian capital Amman Thursday by pledging their support for the restoration of security to the violence-torn country.

According to a joint communique, the participating countries agreed to "cooperate bilaterally or collectively and to take all necessary measures to prevent terrorists" from using their territories as bases for mobilization, training or financing.

Strasbourg - Europe's largest airports would need transparent coordination of their fees and regulations under legislation approved by the European Parliament Thursday.

The move drew immediate criticism from the European Low Fares Airline Association (ELFAA), which argued that legislators missed a chance to set limits on airport monopolies.

General Secretary John Hanlon said the new law would do nothing more than burden airports and airlines with more administrative burdens.

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New York - Saying US markets have lost some legitimacy as the world pace setter, the head of a new UN panel on the world financial crisis called for a broadened global finance summit after the G-20 leaders meet in Washington in mid November to resolve the economic meltdown.

"The hope is that it will begin a process, set the agenda and it needs to be a multilateral approach in which the voices of all the countries are heard," said Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001.

Bratislava - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Slovakia Thursday for her first visit to the ex-communist country that went independent 15 years ago and became an economic success story.

The queen and her husband, Prince Philip, came off a trip to Slovenia, a smaller country to the south that once was part of Yugoslavia.