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. US US President George W. Bush again stated his willingness to assist European countries in their negotiations with Iran, and blamed Tehran for a lack of cooperation. Iran The UN atomic agency called on Iran to do more to cooperate with UN inspectors and backed a European Union effort to give Tehran trade and security benefits in exchange for abandoning nuclear fuel cycle work. Vatican Doctors at Rome's Gemelli hospital have yet to decide on a date for Pope John Paul II's discharge even though the Vatican said he was following the activities of the Roman Catholic Church from his sick-bed and was eager to go home. Lebanon Lebanon's embattled president was struggling to find a new premier after the opposition insisted on a Syrian pledge for a troop pullout before it would hold talks on joining a new government. Mideast Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to press ahead with a promised pullout from the Gaza Strip, despite calls from his own party for a referendum and a new blow to the fragile peace process from a bomb blast in the West Bank. 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. NKorea North Korea made the unprecedented move of postponing its annual session of parliament, due to start next week, amid rising tensions over its nuclear weapons programme. China China said that legislation aimed at preventing Taiwan from formally declaring independence is not a law on the use of force nor a "war mobilization order." US The trial of a Yemeni cleric and his assistant on charges they helped finance al-Qaeda goes for jury deliberations, after attorneys and prosecutors made their closing arguments. Togo Togo's electoral commission set a presidential vote for April 24, but opposition groups in the West African state said such short notice was unfair. US Flying into history, American aviator Steve Fossett landed a single-engine experimental jet plane to complete the first solo flight around the world without refueling.