Iraq Two suicide car bombs outside Iraq's interior ministry and another near a police station in Baqbuba killed six people as Shiite political parties piled pressure on the Kurds to join them in a governing coalition. Mideast Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faced renewed pressure from his own Likud party over plans to pull out of the Gaza Strip later this year, as a car bomb blast in the West Bank dealt a new blow to the fragile peace process. Indonesia The United States said it was disturbed and disappointed by what it called a light 30-month sentence given to an Indonesian Muslim cleric convicted over a bloody 2002 bombing in Bali. France One of France's biggest-ever criminal trials, in which 66 men and women are accused of raping children "sold" by their parents for pitiful sums of money and cigarettes, opened in the western city of Angers. Britain Three people have been arrested in the industrial city of Coventry under Britain's main anti-terrorist law. Vatican Pope John Paul II's health is improving after throat surgery to ease his breathing but there is no set date for his departure from hospital, a Vatican spokesman said. Kenya Police arrested more than 40 anti-globalization protestors as ministers and senior officials from 33 nations met to jumpstart efforts to seal a global trade accord by 2006.