EU-NATO US President George W. Bush declared that deep divisions with Europe over Iraq had been laid to rest, but said plans to lift an EU arms ban on China spelled serious trouble for transatlantic ties. EU-NATO US President George W. Bush praised European diplomacy aimed at defusing fears that Tehran seeks nuclear weapons, and tried with mixed results to banish worries of a possible US strike on Iran. Iran At least 420 people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck Iran before dawn, leaving weeping villagers to claw through the rubble of their mud-brick homes in search of missing family and friends. Britain Queen Elizabeth II will not attend the April 8 civil wedding ceremony of her son, Prince Charles, to Camilla Parker Bowles, Buckingham Palace said. Iraq The head of a Shiite religious party with links to Iran was poised to become Iraq's prime minister, as US President George W. Bush urged European leaders to get over their opposition to the war that ousted former president Saddam Hussein. North Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has said his country is willing to return to nuclear disarmament talks despite an earlier threat to withdraw from negotiations, Chinese officials reported. Lebanon Lebanon dismissed an EU-US call for Syrian troops to leave the country immediately, while the opposition appealed to the world community to take concrete action to force Syria out. US The US State Department slammed as "ridiculous and untrue" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's allegations that Washington is hatching a plot to have him killed. US The tortuous process of selecting a jury for the Michael Jackson child-sex trial resumed, after a week-long suspension to let the world's most famous defendant get over an attack of flu.