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Diplomats push for international peace conference\nJERUSALEM -- A diplomatic push is under way to organize an international conference on the Mideast crisis, possibly in the latter part of July, but the ongoing fighting is making it difficult to set an agenda, officials said Sunday. Meanwhile Israeli troops searched house to house for suspected militants for a third day in Nablus, the largest West Bank city. More than 60 suspects have been arrested in the roundup, the latest of Israel's frequent incursions into the West Bank.\nIndian, Pakistani leaders head for summit\nNEW DELHI, India -- India's defense minister said Sunday that his nation won't be "impulsive" and sought to ease fears of a nuclear war, as the Indian and Pakistani leaders headed to a summit where they are unlikely to talk peace -- or even talk at all. As part of a diplomatic offensive, Pakistan announced that it will send envoys to the United States and other countries to relay Islamabad's position on the crisis. The emissaries will carry letters from Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf stating that Pakistan is ready to negotiate but that India does not want to talk.\nFeds warn of nukes in wrong hands\nSINGAPORE -- Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said today that the prospect of terrorists developing nuclear capabilities is "more frightening and dangerous" than nuclear proliferation among nation states. At a regional security conference in Singapore, Wolfowitz said the concern that "nuclear weapons or scientists with nuclear expertise (could) fall into the hands of rogue regimes or terrorist groups is a very, very real one." The discussion on nuclear proliferation was one of a several seminars at a two-day conference, which was attended by more than 150 defense officials.\nItalian premier to answer charges of corruption at trial\nMILAN, Italy -- Lawyers for Premier Silvio Berlusconi tried and failed Saturday to postpone a trial in which the billionaire media mogul is accused of bribing judges, news reports said. Berlusconi's defense lawyers want to put the Milan proceedings on hold while Italy's Constitutional Court rules on their request to change the venue -- a move that would force the trial to start over. The premier is on trial on charges he and some of his associates bribed judges to rule in their favor on the sale of SME, a state-owned food company in the 1980s.\n16 arrested in Mexico land dispute massacre\nSANTIAGO XOCHILTEPEC, Mexico -- Army troops and police arrested 16 people in remote southern Mexico after 26 sawmill workers were massacred in a land dispute, state officials said today. The army and more than 200 state police helped in the arrests after Friday night's shooting about 215 miles southeast of Mexico City, the Oaxaca state attorney general's office said. "This attack was an act of vengeance by one community toward another" because of a federal ruling that the community of Santiago Xochiltepec owned hundreds of acres claimed by neighboring Santo Domingo Teojomulco, the office\'s statement said. Most conflicts in the impoverished region are related in some way to land.