* EU leaders call for rapid reforms EU leaders have adopted a declaration calling for some of the reforms proposed in the bloc’s ill-fated constitution to be carried out by 2009.

* Saudi FM: Arab peace plan could change Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister suggested Monday that Arab leaders would be willing to consider changes in their 2002 peace offer to Israel.

* Seizure unjustified, Iran warned Iran’s detention of 15 Royal Navy personnel is “unjustified and wrong”, Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.

* ‘Homesh is the first settlement to be reestablished’ If, as planned, thousands of settler activists arrive at the site of the former northern Samaria settlement Homesh, security forces would find it “impossible” to evacuate them.

* Rice takes Mideast shuttle diplomacy to Jordan US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took her latest shuttle diplomacy mission to Jordan Monday to raise Arab support for new efforts to revive the stalled Middle East peace process.

* China’s Hu in Russian state visit China’s President Hu Jintao is starting a three-day state visit to Russia aimed at promoting trade and energy ties.

* Olmert meets with Ban Ki-Moon in J’lem Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied during a press conference Monday with visiting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon that there was a new peace initiative on the table.

* After Show of Unity, EU Rifts on Reform Re-Emerge Berlin is clearing up after a weekend of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the European Union.

* Terror Database Has Quadrupled In Four Years Each day, thousands of pieces of intelligence information from around the world — field reports, captured documents, news from foreign allies and sometimes idle gossip — arrive in a computer-filled office in McLean.

* Khalilzad: U.S. Patience ‘Running Out’ The departing U.S. ambassador said on Monday that he believes Iraq is heading in the right direction.