Iraq Iraq opened a new 275-member national assembly but politicians failed to form a unity government in the landmark session, just days before the second anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. US US President George W. Bush risked inflaming global opinion by putting forward his deeply controversial deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, to become World Bank chief. Mideast Israel handed to the Palestinian Authority limited security control in the West Bank city of Jericho, in a symbolic first step of a four-week promised transfer. Canada A Canadian judge acquitted two Sikh men of massacring 329 people in a 1985 Air India jumbo jet bombing, the worst single airborne terror strike prior to September 11, 2001. NIreland President George W. Bush and other top US officials gave high profile support to the family of a Belfast man believed to have been murdered by Irish Republican Army members, in a case which has inflamed Northern Ireland's peace process. Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi confirmed his intention to begin withdrawing Italy's troops from Iraq within a few months, but Rome assured its allies in the US-led coalition that it would not act unilaterally. Afghanistan US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Afghanistan on her first trip to the war-torn country, where she will hold talks on reconstruction, drugs and terrorism. Croatia European Union foreign ministers announced an indefinite delay to the start of EU membership negotiations with Croatia amid a standoff over a key war crimes suspect. Spain More than 500 suspected paedophiles who lured their victims over the Internet have been arrested in 12 countries in Europe and Latin America, Spanish police coordinating the operation said. China Up to 30 people were killed when a double-decker bus exploded in eastern China, in a blast so powerful it was heard several kilometers (miles) away, state press and local officials said.